NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 54

HOUSE BILL 160

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE COMPULSORY MEAT INSPECTION ACT SO AS TO ELIMINATE THE EXEMPTION FROM INSPECTION NOW GIVEN TO PRODUCERS OF TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS OR LESS PER YEAR OF MEAT PRODUCTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 106-549.27(b) is amended by striking therefrom the following language:

"No provision of this Article, nor any rule or regulation of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, shall apply to any person who sells or offers for sale to a consumer in any one calendar year not in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) in retail value of any meat food product produced and raised on his own land or land rented by or leased to him. 'Person' shall be defined as an individual and shall not include any corporation, partnership, association or cooperative. Records of the type meat food product sold and the amount received from such sale shall be kept for at least two years from the date of sale by the seller and such record shall be open for inspection during regular business hours by representatives of the Department of Agriculture."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 106-549.27(b) is further amended by rewriting the last sentence thereof to read as follows:

"Meat food products coming under this paragraph may be stored, processed, or prepared at any freezer locker plant provided such meat food products are identified and kept separate and apart from other meat food products bearing the official mark of inspection while in the freezer locker plant."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 106-549.16, as it appears in the 1969 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A, is amended by deleting the word "property" in Line 7 and inserting in lieu thereof the word "properly".

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of March, 1971.