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exclusive use in the household of the owner of the commodity by the
owner and members of the owner's household and the owner's
nonpaying guests and employees.

 
6.__Commercial slaughterhouse.__"Commercial slaughterhouse"
means a person engaged in the business of slaughtering livestock
or poultry other than as a custom slaughterhouse.

 
7.__Commissioner.__"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources or the commissioner's
designee.

 
8.__Consumer package.__"Consumer package" means a container or
package that contains a product in its final form for sale to the
end-use consumer.

 
9.__Container or package.__"Container" or "package" means a
box, can, tin, cloth or plastic or other receptacle, wrapper or
cover.

 
10.__Custom processor.__"Custom processor" means a person who
maintains a licensed establishment under this chapter for the
purpose of processing livestock, meat, meat food products,
poultry or poultry products exclusively for use in the household
of the owner of the commodity by the owner and members of the
owner's household and the owner's nonpaying guests and employees.

 
11.__Custom slaughterhouse.__"Custom slaughterhouse" means a
person who maintains a slaughtering licensed establishment under
this chapter for the purposes of slaughtering livestock or
poultry for another person's exclusive use by that person and
members of that person's household and that person's nonpaying
guests and employees, and who is not engaged in the business of
buying or selling carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat
food products or any cattle, domesticated deer, sheep, swine,
goats, domestic rabbits, equines, poultry or other designated
animals useable as human food.

 
12.__Director.__"Director" means the person designated by the
commissioner to be in charge of the day-to-day operations of the
state meat and poultry inspection and licensing program
established by this chapter.

 
13.__Domesticated deer.__"Domesticated deer" means fallow
deer, family Cervidae, subfamily Cervinae, genus Dama; red deer,
family Cervidae, subfamily Cervinae, genus Cervus, species
Elaphus; and any other species specified under Title 7, section
1331, subsection 1-A kept as domestic animals for the purpose of
either breeding stock or for sale as food.


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