269.200. Exceptions to chapter. - Missouri Statutes

Exceptions to chapter.

269.200. 1. Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to or affectany of the following persons, matters, or vocations, to wit:

(1) To any person hauling a dead animal to a slaughtering establishmentwhere such animals will be slaughtered for personal consumption;

(2) To any person transporting or storing finished carcasses or finishedmeat products or the trimmings therefrom;

(3) To any person transporting, disposing of, or selling the hides orskins of animals, or tanning such hides or skins for himself or other persons;

(4) To any governmental agency, responding to an emergency situation, orcollecting, transporting, or disposing of the bodies of any dead animals inany manner approved by the state veterinarian;

(5) To any livestock producer transporting his dead livestock to arendering plant or substation, or to a diagnostic facility and/or to anon-farm disposal site;

(6) To any person lawfully operating a pet cemetery;

(7) To any animal research facility that is regulated by the federalAnimal Welfare Act;

(8) Any person transporting, without specific hire or compensation forsuch transportation, a dead animal to a place of burial or disposal.

2. No provisions of any other laws or ordinances regulating any of thepersons, matters or vocations aforesaid shall be affected or repealed by thischapter.

(L. 1941 p. 290 § 14493a, A.L. 1992 H.B. 878)