§ 106-543. Requirements of national poultry improvement plan must be met.
§ 106‑543. Requirements of national poultry improvement plan must be met.
All baby chicks, turkey poults and hatching eggs produced, sold oroffered for sale shall originate in flocks that meet the requirements of thenational poultry improvement plan as administered by the North CarolinaDepartment of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the regulations issued byauthority of this Article for the control of pullorum disease and otherinfectious diseases provided that nothing in this Article shall require anyhatchery to adopt the national poultry improvement plan. (1945, c. 616, s. 5; 1969, c. 464; 1983, c. 290, s. 5;1997‑261, s. 109.)