§ 106-549.23. Prohibited slaughter, sale and transportation. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 106‑549.23. Prohibited slaughter, sale and transportation.

No person, firm, or corporation shall, with respect to any cattle,sheep, swine, goats, fallow deer, red deer, bison, horses, mules, or otherequines, or any carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat food products ofany such animals:

(1)        Slaughter any of these animals or prepare any of thesearticles which are capable of use as human food, at any establishment preparingany such articles for intrastate commerce except in compliance with the requirementsof this and the subsequent Article;

(2)        Slaughter, or handle in connection with slaughter, any suchanimals in any manner not in accordance with G.S. 106‑549.17(c) of thisArticle;

(3)        Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receivefor transportation, in intrastate commerce:

a.         Any of these articles which (i) are capable of use as humanfood and (ii) are adulterated or misbranded at the time of sale,transportation, offer for sale or transportation, or receipt fortransportation; or

b.         Any articles required to be inspected under this Articleunless they have been so inspected and passed; or

(4)        Do, with respect to any of these articles which are capableof use as human food, any act while they are being transported in intrastatecommerce or held for sale after such transportation, which is intended to causeor has the effect of causing the articles to be adulterated or misbranded. (1969, c. 893, s. 9; 1981, c. 376, s. 2; 1991, c. 317,s. 10; 1995, c. 194, s. 7; 1997‑142, s. 10.)