2011 South Dakota Code
Title 39 FOOD AND DRUGS
Chapter 05. Meat And Meat Products
§39-5-36 Records required of all types of meat businesses.

39-5-36. Records required of all types of meat businesses. Any person who engages in this state, in the business of slaughtering any livestock, or preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses or parts or products of carcasses, of any livestock, for use as human or animal food or rendering (as an inedible products renderer), transporting, storing, or buying or selling (as a meat broker or otherwise) any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any livestock, or transporting, buying, or selling any dying, crippled, or diseased cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, equine, ratites, captive cervidae, and other species as requested by the owner and authorized by the secretary shall maintain such records as the secretary may by rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26 require to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, and shall, upon notice by the secretary, afford the representative, at all reasonable times, access to the person's places of business and opportunity to inspect the facilities, inventory, and all records, and to copy all such records. Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for at least such period of time as the secretary may by rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26 prescribe.

Source: SL 1968, ch 158, § 12; SL 1996, ch 248, § 5.