South Dakota § 39-5-23.1 Inhumane slaughtering--Refusal or suspension of inspection.

South Dakota Statutes

§ 39-5-23.1 — Inhumane slaughtering--Refusal or suspension of inspection.

South Dakota § 39-5-23.1

Title 39FOOD AND DRUGS

Ch. 39-4MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS

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S.D. Codified Laws § 39-5-23.1 (2026).

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For the purpose of preventing the inhumane slaughtering of livestock, the secretary of the Animal Industry Board shall examine and inspect the method by which cattle, sheep, swine, goats, equine, ratites, captive cervidae, and other species as requested by the owner and authorized by the secretary are slaughtered and handled in connection with slaughter in the slaughtering establishments inspected under this chapter. The secretary may refuse to provide inspection to a new slaughtering establishment or temporarily suspend inspection at a slaughtering establishment if the secretary finds that any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, equine, ratites, captive cervidae, and other species as requested by the owner and authorized by the secretary have been slaughtered or handled in connection with slaugh

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For the purpose of preventing the inhumane slaughtering of livestock, the secretary of the Animal Industry Board shall examine and inspect the method by which cattle, sheep, swine, goats, equine, ratites, captive cervidae, and other species as requested by the owner and authorized by the secretary are slaughtered and handled in connection with slaughter in the slaughtering establishments inspected under this chapter. The secretary may refuse to provide inspection to a new slaughtering establishment or temporarily suspend inspection at a slaughtering establishment if the secretary finds that any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, equine, ratites, captive cervidae, and other species as requested by the owner and authorized by the secretary have been slaughtered or handled in connection with slaughter at such establishment by any method not in accordance with § 39-5-23.2 , until the establishment furnishes assurances satisfactory to the secretary that all slaughtering and handling in connection with slaughter of livestock shall be in accordance with such a method.