75-35-103 - Records required to be kept; access to places of business; examination of facilities, inventory and records; copies of records; samples of inventory. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 75-35-103. Records required to be kept; access to places of business; examination of facilities, inventory and records; copies of records; samples of inventory.
 

(1)  The following classes of persons, firms, and corporations shall keep such records as will fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses; and all persons, firms, and corporations subject to such requirements shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the commissioner afford such representative and any duly authorized representative of the secretary of agriculture of the United States accompanied by such representative of the commissioner access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy all such records, and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment when requested of the fair market value thereof: 

(a) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in the business of slaughtering any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals, for use as human food or animal food; 

(b) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in the business of buying or selling (as meat brokers, wholesalers or otherwise), or transporting, or storing, any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals; 

(c) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in business, as renderers, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or transporting, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter. 

(2)  Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for such period of time as the commissioner may by regulations prescribe. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 4575-168, Laws,  1968, ch. 245, § 18, eff from and after July 1, 1968.