81-9-202. Exceptions of certain producers of meats. (1) The owners or operators of slaughterhouses, packinghouses, meat depots, or other places of business engaged in the production, storage, or transportation of meats or meat foods are not required to procure a license from the department of public health and human services for the business of production, storage, or transportation of these food products.
(2) This section does not limit the:
(a) supervision or regulation by the department of public health and human services of the sanitary condition of a restaurant, hotel, boardinghouse, or retail market or the products sold or offered for sale at those facilities; or
(b) duties imposed by law on the department of public health and human services to make sanitary rules for the eradication or control of an epidemic of human disease that may exist in a community.
History: En. Sec. 24, Ch. 262, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3283, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3283, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 77, Ch. 310, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 12, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 46-233(part); amd. Sec. 349, Ch. 418, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 549, Ch. 546, L. 1995.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Part 2. Slaughterhouses Meat and Poultry Inspection
81-9-201. Meat establishment license -- fees and renewals
81-9-202. Exceptions of certain producers of meats
81-9-208. through 81-9-215 reserved
81-9-221. through 81-9-225 reserved
81-9-226. Chief meat inspector -- deputies -- qualifications
81-9-227. Application for state meat inspection service -- assignment of establishment number
81-9-229. Assignment of inspectors
81-9-230. Antemortem and postmortem inspection required
81-9-231. Condemnation and appeal
81-9-232. Regulation of equine carcasses or products
81-9-233. Cooperation with state and federal authorities
81-9-234. Violations -- penalties