| | 1.__Examining records; samples of inventory.__Records that | fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their | businesses must be kept by: |
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| 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; |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| | 2.__Retention.__A record required to be maintained by this | section must be maintained for a period of time the commissioner | establishes by rule. |
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| | 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. |
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