2.__Retail stores and restaurants.__The provisions of this chapter requiring inspection of the slaughter of animals and the preparation of carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products do not apply to operations of types traditionally and usually conducted at retail stores and restaurants when those operations are conducted for the sale, in normal retail quantities, or the service of those articles to consumers at such establishments.

3.__Limitations.__The slaughter of animals and preparation of articles referred to in subsection 1, paragraph B and subsection 2 must be conducted in accordance with sanitary conditions the commissioner establishes by rule.

4.__Application.__The adulteration and misbranding provisions of this subchapter, other than the requirement of the inspection legend, apply to articles that do not require inspection under this section.

§2519-A.__Storage and handling

Whenever the commissioner determines it necessary to ensure that carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products fit for human food are not adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the consumer, the commissioner may set by rule conditions under which persons engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing or transporting those articles in or for intrastate commerce must store or handle them.

§2520.__Registration of commercial establishments

A person may not operate a commercial slaughterhouse or commercial meat processing establishment where commercial slaughter or commercial preparation of meat or meat food products is performed in accordance with this chapter unless that establishment is registered by the commissioner.