1.__Examining records; samples of inventory.__Records that fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses must be kept by:

A.__Persons that engage for intrastate commerce in the business of slaughtering animals or preparing, freezing, packaging or labeling carcasses or parts or products of carcasses of animals for use as human food or animal food;

B.__Persons that buy or sell as meat brokers, wholesalers or otherwise, transport in intrastate commerce or store for intrastate commerce any carcasses or parts or products of carcasses of animals; and

C.__Persons that engage in business in or for intrastate commerce as renderers or buy, sell or transport in intrastate commerce any dead, dying, disabled or diseased animals, or parts of the carcasses of such animals, that died otherwise than by slaughter.

At all reasonable times and upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the commissioner, persons subject to this section shall afford the representative and any authorized representative of the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States accompanied by that representative access to their places of business and the opportunity to examine the facilities, inventories and records of their businesses, to copy all records and to take reasonable samples of their inventories upon offering or payment of the fair market value of the samples.

2.__Retention.__A record required to be maintained by this section must be maintained for a period of time the commissioner establishes by rule.

§2522.__Registration

A person may not engage in business in or for intrastate commerce: as a meat broker, renderer or animal food manufacturer; as a wholesaler of carcasses or parts or products of carcasses, whether intended for human food or other purposes; as a public warehouse operator storing such articles; or as a buyer, seller or transporter of dead, dying, disabled or diseased animals or parts of the carcasses of animals that died otherwise than by slaughter unless, when required by rules of the commissioner, that person has registered with the commissioner the person's name and the address of each place of business at which and all trade names under which the person conducts such a business.