§ 106-549.22. Rules and regulations of Board. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 106‑549.22. Rules and regulations of Board.

The Commissioner or his authorized representative shall cause to bemade, by experts in sanitation, or by other competent inspectors, suchinspection of all slaughtering, meat‑canning, salting, packing, rendering,or similar establishments in which cattle, sheep, swine, goats, fallow deer,red deer, bison, horses, mules, and other equines are slaughtered and the meatand meat food products thereof are prepared for intrastate commerce as may benecessary to inform himself concerning the sanitary conditions of the same, andthe Board shall prescribe the rules and regulations of sanitation under whichsuch establishments shall be maintained; and where the sanitary conditions ofany such establishment are such that the meat or meat food products arerendered adulterated, the Commissioner or his authorized representative shallrefuse to allow said meat or meat food products to be labeled, marked, stamped,or tagged as "North Carolina Department of Agriculture and ConsumerServices Inspected and Passed." (1969, c. 893, s. 8; 1991, c. 317, s. 9; 1995, c. 194, s. 6; 1997‑142,s. 9; 1997‑261, s. 109.)