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    I. No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as a meat broker, renderer, or animal food manufacturer, or engage in business in such commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, whether intended for human food or other purposes, or engage in business as a public warehouseman storing any such articles in or for such commerce, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in such commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals of the specified kinds, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless, when required by rules of the commissioner, he has registered with the commissioner his name, and the address of each place of business at which, and all trade names under which, he conducts such business.
    II. The commissioner shall require an annual license fee of:
       (a) $60 for custom slaughterers;
       (b) $110 for commercial slaughterers.
    III. Licenses granted by the commissioner shall take effect on July 1 and expire on June 30 of the following year. All license fees shall be deposited in the general fund of the state.

Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.