SECTIONS 22001-22010 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 22001-22010

22001. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a person shall
not slaughter, or request or hire any person that is not a licensed
slaughterer to slaughter, any bovine animal.

22001.5. The Legislature finds and declares that mobile slaughter
operators who perform the service of slaughtering cattle for the
owner of the cattle on the owner's premises are not licensed
slaughterers pursuant to this chapter. However, on and after January
15, 1998, a mobile slaughter operator shall be registered with the
bureau as an unlicensed mobile slaughterer pursuant to Section 22037
and is subject to Section 22008.

22002. Any producer of cattle may slaughter or have slaughtered for
him on his own premises, in small numbers, cattle of his own
production and raising on his own premises for use exclusively by
him, members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees.

22003. Cattle which are slaughtered by or for the producer of the
cattle at his premises and for his own consumption may be transported
with the hide on, after complete removal of the viscera, head, and
feet, to any licensed frozen food locker plant to be skinned, split,
and quartered by the operator of the plant.

22004. Carcasses and hides received by the licensed frozen food
locker plant or processor shall be identified in a manner prescribed
by regulation and inspected, or released, by the brand inspector. It
shall be the responsibility of the person who slaughtered the animal
to identify each carcass and hide. Operators of licensed frozen food
locker plants or processors shall only receive a carcass when the
hide and carcass have been properly identified in accordance with
this provision. The director shall adopt the regulations reasonably
necessary for implementing this section.

22004.1. It is the responsibility of the person who slaughters an
animal and delivers the carcass to a licensed frozen food locker
plant or processor pursuant to Section 22003 or 22004 to obtain a
brand inspection of the hide prior to moving it beyond the first
point of sale.

22005. The skinning, splitting, and quartering of the cattle
slaughtered pursuant to Section 22002 at a licensed frozen food
locker plant are not required to be performed by a licensed
slaughterer.

22006. The licensed frozen food locker plant operator shall
maintain a record of every transaction which involves uninspected
meat for a period of five years. The record shall show the name of
the producer of the cattle and the number of carcasses which were
delivered by the producer.

22007. Any owner or producer of livestock may have them inspected
and slaughtered by a licensed slaughterer. The owner or producer may,
thereafter, sell the meat from those livestock.

22008. Every person that is not a licensed slaughterer that
slaughters cattle shall do all of the following:
(a) Keep a record in a book which he or she keeps for that purpose
of all cattle that are slaughtered by him or her. The record shall
include the name, address, and telephone number of the person for
whom the cattle are slaughtered, a full description of the cattle,
including the brands and marks, the date of slaughter, and the name
and location of the food locker to which the slaughtered animal is,
or the slaughtered animals are, delivered for butchering.
(b) Exhibit the record book on demand of any inspector or peace
officer.
(c) Notify a brand inspector within 24 hours if he slaughters a
bovine animal and does not deliver the carcass and hide to a frozen
food locker plant licensed pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with
Section 112500) of Part 6 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety
Code.

22009. Any person who is requested to custom cut or otherwise
process for another person any meat from a bovine animal that was not
slaughtered by a licensed slaughterer pursuant to Article 2
(commencing with Section 22031) of this chapter, or which was not
slaughtered in accordance with either Section 22004 or 22008, shall,
before cutting or processing the meat, notify a brand inspector that
such meat has been received.

22010. Any person receiving meat pursuant to Section 22009 shall
keep a record in a book which he keeps for that purpose that
discloses the following information on all such meat received:
(a) The name, address, and telephone number of the person
delivering the meat.
(b) The license number of the vehicle used in delivering the meat.
(c) The date the meat was received.
Such person shall keep these records for one year and shall
exhibit the records upon demand of any inspector or peace officer.