California Code
DIVISION 12 - POULTRY, RABBITS, EGGS, AND EGG PRODUCTS
PART 2 - CLASSIFICATION OF POULTRY AND RABBIT MEAT

CHAPTER 1 - Definitions

Section 25401. - 25401. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this...

Section 25402. - 25402. “Class” means a division of poultry meat which is...

Section 25403. - 25403. “Fowl” includes chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other domesticated...

Section 25404. - 25404. “Growing poultry” means feeding and caring for poultry. (Enacted...

Section 25405. - 25405. “Marked” means plainly, legibly, and conspicuously labeled, stamped, tagged,...

Section 25406. - 25406. “Mislabel” means the placing, or presence of any false,...

Section 25407. - 25407. “New York dressed fowl” means fowl from which the...

Section 25408. - 25408. “Poultry” means domesticated fowl and domesticated rabbit which is...

Section 25409. - 25409. “Poultry meat” means the carcass of poultry or any...

Section 25410. - 25410. “Poultry plant” means any of the following: (a) Any...

Section 25411. - 25411. “Processing” means the commercial manufacturing of products of poultry...

Section 25412. - 25412. “Producer” means any person that is engaged in the...

CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions

Section 25551. - 25551. The director shall adopt regulations for carrying out this...

Section 25552. - 25552. The director shall enforce this part where any poultry...

Section 25553. - 25553. The director and the commissioners of each county, under...

Section 25554. - 25554. An enforcing officer may do all of the following:...

Section 25555. - 25555. Any enforcing officer may, while enforcing this part, seize...

Section 25556. - 25556. Any lot of poultry meat which does not comply...

Section 25557. - 25557. Any enforcing officer who has reason to believe that...

Section 25558. - 25558. The officer may affix to any lot which is...

Section 25559. - 25559. The officer by whom any lot of poultry meat...

Section 25560. - 25560. If the person served is not the sole owner...

Section 25561. - 25561. If the lot of poultry meat is not reconditioned...

Section 25562. - 25562. Any notice which is required by this chapter may...

Section 25563. - 25563. The enforcing officer, with the written consent of every...

Section 25564. - 25564. If the lot of poultry meat that is held...

Section 25565. - 25565. If the lot of poultry meat which is held...

Section 25566. - 25566. The court may enter judgment ordering that the lot...

CHAPTER 3 - Exemptions

Section 25701. - 25701. This part, except Section 26008, does not apply to...

Section 25702. - 25702. This part, except Section 26008, does not apply to...

Section 25703. - 25703. (a) This part does not apply to poultry meat...

Section 25704. - 25704. This part does not apply to poultry meat which...

CHAPTER 4 - Poultry and Rabbit Meat Classes

Section 25851. - 25851. The classes of the kinds of poultry meat are...

Section 25852. - 25852. The classes of chicken meat, as determined by inspection...

Section 25853. - 25853. The classes of turkey meat as determined by appearance...

Section 25854. - 25854. The classes of rabbit meat as determined by appearance...

Section 25855. - 25855. The following are the various classes of ducks: (a)...

Section 25856. - 25856. The following are the various classes of geese: (a)...

Section 25857. - 25857. The director may, by regulation, adopt any necessary new...

CHAPTER 5 - Requirements

Section 26001. - 26001. A person shall not pack, repack, cut up, recut,...

Section 26002. - 26002. Except as otherwise provided in Sections 26003, 26004, 26005,...

Section 26003. - 26003. The provisions of Section 26002, except those which require...

Section 26004. - 26004. Individual carcasses of poultry meat or packages of cut-up...

Section 26005. - 26005. Poultry parts which are displayed for sale to consumers...

Section 26006. - 26006. Cut-up poultry meat which consists of all of the...

Section 26007. - 26007. If a class of any kind of poultry meat...

Section 26008. - 26008. (a) It is unlawful for any person to sell...

CHAPTER 6 - Violations

Section 26151. - 26151. It is unlawful for any person to violate any...