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LR 4026
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standards of fill of container consistent with federal
standards when the commissioner determines the action
appropriate for the protection of the public;

 
O.__Establish conditions for storage and handling of
livestock products and poultry products by persons engaged
in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing or
transporting these products in or for intrastate commerce to
ensure that these products are not adulterated or misbranded
when delivered to the consumer; and

 
P.__Establish the method for providing voluntary inspection
and withdrawal of inspection of exotic animals, wild game,__
domesticated deer and domestic rabbits.__These rules may
also provide for the inspection of meat and meat food
products derived from those animals.__The commissioner shall
provide voluntary inspection of bison, domesticated deer and
ratite produced in the State, including the inspection of
meat and meat food products derived from bison, domesticated
deer and ratite, for which the commissioner shall charge a
fee of $5 per hour.__The commissioner shall charge $20 per
hour per inspection of meat and meat food products processed
in the State but derived from bison, domesticated deer and
ratite produced outside the State.

 
§2513.__Rules

 
The commissioner shall adopt rules to carry out the purposes
of this chapter.__Rules adopted under this chapter are routine
technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter
II-A.

 
SUBCHAPTER II

 
LICENSING

 
§2514.__Licensing

 
1.__License required.__A person may not engage in intrastate
commerce in the business of buying, selling, preparing,
processing, packing, storing, transporting or otherwise handling
meat, meat food products or poultry products, unless that person
holds a valid license issued under this chapter.__Categories of
licensure include:

 
A.__Commercial slaughterers;

 
B.__Custom slaughterers, except that itinerant custom
slaughterers who slaughter solely at a customer's home or farm
and who do not own, operate or work at a slaughtering


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