65-6a31. Exceptions to inspection requirements; custom slaughtering.
65-6a31
65-6a31. Exceptions to inspection requirements;custom slaughtering.(a) The provisions of this act shall not apply:
(1) To the slaughtering by any person of animals of such person's own raisingor to the preparing by the slaughterer or to the transporting in intrastatecommerce of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat food products or poultryproducts of such animals exclusively for use or consumption by such person,members of such person's household, former members of such household or suchperson's nonpaying guests and employees;
(2) to any person operating a retail store or similar retailtype business who prepares only inspected and passed carcasses, partsthereof, meat food products or poultry products for sale to consumers atretail in normal retail quantities; or prepares inspected carcasses, partsthereof, meat food products or poultry products, owned by the consumer andprepared for such consumer's consumption or the consumptionof such consumer's household members, nonpaying guests and employees; or
(3) to any person operating a restaurant who preparesonly inspected and passed carcasses, parts thereof, meat food products orpoultry products for human consumption.
(b) (1) Only those provisions of this act relating to registration,sanitation and adulteration shall apply:
(A) to a person slaughtering livestock, domestic rabbits or poultrydelivered by the ownerthereof for such slaughter, including the preparation by such slaughtererand the transportation in intrastate commerce of the carcasses, parts thereof,meat food products or poultry products of such animals exclusively foruse or consumption by the owner, the members of theowner's household or theowner's nonpaying guests and employees; or
(B) to the custom preparation by anyperson, firm or corporation of carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat foodproducts, derived from the slaughter by any person of livestock of suchperson's own raising, or from gameanimals which are delivered by the ownerthereof for such custom preparation and transportation in intrastatecommerce of such custom prepared articles, exclusively for use in thehousehold of the owner by the owner andthe members of the owner's householdand the owner's nonpaying guests and employees.
(2) In cases where suchperson, firm or corporation engages in such custom operations at anestablishment at which inspection under the Kansas meat and poultry inspectionact is maintained, thesecretary may exempt from such inspection at such establishment any animalsslaughtered or any meat or meat food products otherwise prepared on suchcustom basis, except that custom operations at anyestablishment shall be exempt from inspection requirements as provided bythis section only if the establishment complies with rules and regulationsadopted by the secretaryof agriculture to assure that any carcasses,parts thereof, meat or meat food products wherever handled on a custombasis, or any containers or packages containing such articles, areseparated at all times from carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat foodproducts prepared for sale and that all such articles prepared on a custombasis, or any containers or packages containing such articles, are plainlymarked "not for sale" immediately after being prepared and kept soidentified until delivered to the owner and that the establishment conductingthe custom operation is maintained and operated in a sanitary manner.
(c) Only those provisions of this act relating to sanitation andadulteration shall apply to a person operating a food locker plant who (1)prepares meat, meat food products, poultry or poultry products which havebeen inspected and passed and which are being prepared and sold in normalretail quantities, or (2) prepares such meat, meat products, poultry orpoultry products for the owner thereof.
History: L. 1969, ch. 296, § 14; L. 1970, ch. 251, § 1; L. 1971,ch. 207, § 1; L. 1976, ch. 268, § 1;L. 1985, ch. 211, § 10;L. 2004, ch. 101, § 96; July 1.