An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Slaughter and Inspection of Livestock
Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §2514-A, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2015, c. 329, Pt. A, §8, is further amended to read:
The commissioner shall adopt rules to establish a procedure and a registration process for a livestock producer located in Aroostook County to engage in intrastate commerce in the business of buying, selling, preparing, processing, packing, storing, transporting or otherwise handling meat and meat food products. The rules must include a process for product inspections at livestock producers' locations. Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules pursuant to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
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Current law permits certain unlicensed slaughterers, processors and producers to register to engage in intrastate commerce to buy, sell, prepare, process, pack, store, transport and handle meat and meat food products. This bill includes livestock producers who are located in Aroostook County under that law and requires the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to adopt rules to establish the registration process and to inspect livestock producers at their locations.