4-13.2 Poultry Division - North Dakota Statutes

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CHAPTER 4-13.2POULTRY DIVISION4-13.2-01.Definitions.As used in this chapter, "poultry" means chickens, turkeys,domestic geese, and domestic ducks.4-13.2-02. Administration. Within the department of agriculture there must be a poultrydivision.4-13.2-03. Purposes - Duties. The agriculture commissioner may adopt rules pursuantto chapter 28-32 to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, and the agriculture commissioner, or
the commissioner's designee, shall enforce this chapter. The agriculture commissioner shall:1.Work toward improving poultry breeding and cooperate with the board of animal
health in controlling and eradicating communicable diseases of poultry.2.Act as the official state agency for North Dakota in cooperation with the bureau of
animal industry, United States department of agriculture, for the purpose of
furthering the objectives and supervising the state's participation in the national
poultry improvement plan.3.Act as the state agency to cooperate with the United States department of
agriculture, to provide federal-state grading service for poultry and poultry products
offered for sale at the retail level, to supervise the federal-state poultry grading
service, and to enforce regulations at the retail level as to identification by grade of
all poultry sold.4.Promote generally the welfare and improvement of the poultry industry and the
marketing of poultry and poultry products within the state through such means and in
such manner as may be deemed by the commissioner conducive to such
improvement.5.Enforce the licensing and bonding requirements provided by this chapter.6.Administer chapter 4.1-12, at the advice of the North Dakota turkey federation.4-13.2-04. Poultry advisory board - How constituted. Repealed by S.L. 1997, ch. 67,