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An application for registration or renewal of registration
must be made on or before September 1st of each year on a form
prescribed by the commissioner.__When the commissioner is
satisfied that there is compliance with the rules governing these
operations, the registration must be approved.__A fee of $5 is
charged for each registration or renewal.

 
A registration covers all the buildings in one location that a
registrant intends to use in the commercial slaughterhouse or
commercial meat processing establishment.

 
§2520-A.__Registration of custom establishments

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

 
An application for registration or renewal of registration
must be made on or before September 1st of each year on a form
prescribed by the commissioner.__When the commissioner is
satisfied that there is compliance with the rules governing these
operations, the registration must be approved.__A fee of $5 is
charged for each registration or renewal.

 
A registration covers all the buildings in one location that a
registrant intends to use in the custom slaughterhouse or the
custom meat processing establishment.

 
SUBCHAPTER II

 
MEAT PROCESSORS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES

 
§2521.__Not for human food

 
Inspection may not be provided under subchapter I at an
establishment for the slaughter of animals or the preparation of
carcasses or parts or products of animals that are not intended
for use as human food, but such articles, unless naturally
inedible by humans, before their offer for sale or transportation
in intrastate commerce must be denatured or identified as
inedible, as established by rules of the commissioner, to deter
their use for human food.__A person may not buy, sell, transport
or offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation
in intrastate commerce any carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or
meat food products of animals that are not intended for use as
human food unless they are denatured or identified as inedible by
rules of the commissioner or are naturally inedible by humans.


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