Effective - 28 Aug 1992
269.200. Exceptions to chapter. — 1. Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to or affect any of the following persons, matters, or vocations, to wit:
(1) To any person hauling a dead animal to a slaughtering establishment where such animals will be slaughtered for personal consumption;
(2) To any person transporting or storing finished carcasses or finished meat products or the trimmings therefrom;
(3) To any person transporting, disposing of, or selling the hides or skins of animals, or tanning such hides or skins for himself or other persons;
(4) To any governmental agency, responding to an emergency situation, or collecting, transporting, or disposing of the bodies of any dead animals in any manner approved by the state veterinarian;
(5) To any livestock producer transporting his dead livestock to a rendering plant or substation, or to a diagnostic facility and/or to an on-farm disposal site;
(6) To any person lawfully operating a pet cemetery;
(7) To any animal research facility that is regulated by the federal Animal Welfare Act;
(8) Any person transporting, without specific hire or compensation for such transportation, a dead animal to a place of burial or disposal.
2. No provisions of any other laws or ordinances regulating any of the persons, matters or vocations aforesaid shall be affected or repealed by this chapter.
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(L. 1941 p. 290 § 14493a, A.L. 1992 H.B. 878)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals
Chapter 269 - Disposal of Dead Animals
Section 269.010 - Definitions.
Section 269.021 - Large scale animal death, state veterinarian, powers, duties.
Section 269.022 - Director to promulgate rules, procedure.
Section 269.023 - Director may assist in enforcement, authorized employees' powers.
Section 269.030 - Transportation of dead animals prohibited, exceptions.
Section 269.032 - Dead animal substation, permit required.
Section 269.040 - Application for permit to transport dead animals, contents.
Section 269.045 - Application for permit to operate dead animal substation, contents.
Section 269.050 - Receipt of application, duties of state veterinarian.
Section 269.060 - Inspection and review, notice of insufficiencies, reinspection.
Section 269.070 - Issuance of permits to transport.
Section 269.072 - Issuance of permit to operate substation — contents — posting.
Section 269.075 - Qualifications for permit — grounds for refusal of issuance, review, notice.
Section 269.100 - Duration of permits.
Section 269.130 - Vehicles and substations, construction.
Section 269.140 - State veterinarian may prescribe additional requirements.
Section 269.145 - Disposal, time limitation.
Section 269.160 - Transportation nuisances to be avoided.
Section 269.170 - Location of plants — restrictions and exceptions.
Section 269.180 - Specifications for disposal plants.
Section 269.190 - Inspection of plants.
Section 269.200 - Exceptions to chapter.