2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes § 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 or offered for sale shall originate in flocks that meet the requirements of the national poultry improvement plan as administered by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the regulations issued by authority of this Article for the control of pullorum disease and other infectious diseases provided that nothing in this Article shall require any hatchery to adopt the national poultry improvement plan. (1945, c. 616, s. 5; 1969, c. 464; 1983, c. 290, s. 5; 1997‑261, s. 109.)