It is unlawful for any person:
1. To process, sell or offer for sale, transport or deliver or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any livestock or poultry carcass or part thereof unless such article has been inspected and unless the article and its shipping container and immediate container, if any, are marked in accordance with the requirements of NRS 583.255 to 583.555, inclusive, or the Wholesome Meat Act or the Wholesome Poultry Products Act.
2. To sell or otherwise dispose of, for human food, any livestock or poultry carcass or part thereof which has been inspected and declared to be adulterated in accordance with NRS 583.255 to 583.555, inclusive, or which is misbranded.
3. Falsely to make or issue, alter, forge, simulate or counterfeit or use without proper authority any official inspection certificate, memorandum, mark or other identification, or device for making such mark or identification, used in connection with inspection in accordance with NRS 583.255 to 583.555, inclusive, or cause, procure, aid, assist in, or be a party to such false making, issuing, altering, forging, simulating, counterfeiting or unauthorized use, or knowingly to possess, without promptly notifying the Officer or the Officer’s representative, utter, publish or use as true, or cause to be uttered, published or used as true, any such falsely made or issued, altered, forged, simulated or counterfeited official inspection certificate, memorandum, mark or other identification, or device for making such mark or identification, or to represent that any article has been officially inspected in accordance with NRS 583.255 to 583.555, inclusive, when such article has in fact not been so inspected, or knowingly to make any false representations in any certificate prescribed by the Officer or any form resembling any such certificate.
4. To misbrand or do an act intending to misbrand any livestock or poultry carcass or part thereof, in intrastate commerce.
5. To use any container bearing an official inspection mark unless the article contained therein is in the original form in which it was inspected and covered by such mark unless the mark is removed, obliterated or otherwise destroyed.
6. To refuse at any reasonable time to permit access:
(a) By the Officer or his or her agents to the premises of an establishment in this state where carcasses of livestock or poultry, or parts thereof, are processed for intrastate commerce.
(b) By the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary’s representative to the premises of any establishment specified in paragraph (a), for inspection and the taking of reasonable samples.
7. To refuse to permit access to and the copying of any record as authorized by NRS 583.485.
8. To use for personal advantage, or reveal, other than to the authorized representatives of any state agency in their official capacity, or to the courts when relevant in any judicial proceeding, any information acquired under the authority of NRS 583.255 to 583.555, inclusive, concerning any matter which as a trade secret is entitled to protection.
9. To deliver, receive, transport, sell or offer for sale or transportation in intrastate commerce, for human consumption, any uneviscerated slaughtered poultry, or any livestock or poultry carcass or part thereof which has been processed in violation of any requirements under NRS 583.255 to 583.555, inclusive, except as may be authorized by and pursuant to rules and regulations prescribed by the Officer.
10. To apply to any livestock or poultry carcass or part thereof, or any container thereof, any official inspection mark or label required by NRS 583.255 to 583.555, inclusive, except by, or under the supervision of, an inspector.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 987; A 1971, 895; 2015, 3628; 2019, 1616)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 583 - Meat, Fish, Produce, Poultry and Eggs
NRS 583.005 - "Department" defined.
NRS 583.111 - "Addled" and "white rot" defined.
NRS 583.112 - "Adherent yolk" defined.
NRS 583.113 - "Black rot" defined.
NRS 583.114 - "Black spot" defined.
NRS 583.115 - "Blood streak" defined.
NRS 583.116 - "Consumer" defined.
NRS 583.117 - "Fresh eggs," "ranch eggs" and "farm eggs" defined.
NRS 583.118 - "Incubated eggs" defined.
NRS 583.119 - "Moldy" defined.
NRS 583.120 - "Retailer" defined.
NRS 583.130 - State Quarantine Officer: Regulations; grades and standards for eggs.
NRS 583.140 - Sale of eggs unfit for human food prohibited; denatured eggs.
NRS 583.150 - Sale of unbranded or unstamped incubated eggs unlawful.
NRS 583.160 - Sale of fresh eggs not conforming to classifications unlawful.
NRS 583.170 - Sale or offer for sale of eggs without designation of size and quality unlawful.
NRS 583.180 - Size and style of printing for designation of size and quality of eggs.
NRS 583.190 - Marking of containers when eggs sold in lots of half cases or more.
NRS 583.200 - Applicability of provisions.
NRS 583.211 - Definitions. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.212 - "Business owner or operator" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.213 - "Cage-free housing system" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.214 - "Egg products" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.215 - "Egg-laying hen" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.216 - "Enclosure" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.217 - "Farm" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.218 - "Farm owner or operator" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.219 - "Multi-tiered aviary" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.2205 - "Partially slatted system" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.221 - "Sale" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.222 - "Shell egg" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.223 - "Single-level, all-litter floor system" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.224 - "Usable floor space" defined. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.231 - Legislative declaration. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.235 - Applicability. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.249 - Regulations. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.251 - Civil penalty. [Effective July 1, 2022.]
NRS 583.265 - "Adulterated" defined.
NRS 583.268 - "Animal food manufacturer" defined.
NRS 583.272 - "Capable of use as human food" defined.
NRS 583.275 - "Container" defined.
NRS 583.277 - "Custom processing establishment" defined.
NRS 583.285 - "Immediate container" defined.
NRS 583.295 - "Inspector" defined.
NRS 583.305 - "Intrastate commerce" defined.
NRS 583.315 - "Label" defined.
NRS 583.317 - "Labeling" defined.
NRS 583.325 - "Livestock" defined.
NRS 583.339 - "Meat broker" defined.
NRS 583.345 - "Meat food product" defined.
NRS 583.355 - "Misbranded" defined.
NRS 583.357 - "Mobile processing unit" defined.
NRS 583.365 - "Officer" defined.
NRS 583.368 - "Official certificate" defined.
NRS 583.372 - "Official device" defined.
NRS 583.375 - "Official establishment" defined.
NRS 583.385 - "Official inspection mark" defined.
NRS 583.389 - "Official mark" defined.
NRS 583.405 - "Poultry" defined.
NRS 583.407 - "Poultry product" defined.
NRS 583.408 - "Poultry products broker" defined.
NRS 583.411 - "Processed" defined.
NRS 583.413 - "Renderer" defined.
NRS 583.415 - "Shipping container" defined.
NRS 583.425 - "Wholesome Meat Act" defined.
NRS 583.429 - "Wholesome Poultry Products Act" defined.
NRS 583.435 - Declaration of policy; administration by Department.
NRS 583.439 - Compliance required in intrastate commerce.
NRS 583.448 - Authorization by State Quarantine Officer for person to act as inspector.
NRS 583.451 - Authority of owner or operator of official establishment to act as inspector.
NRS 583.458 - Official establishment: Suspension and reinstatement of permit; revocation of permit.
NRS 583.465 - Labeling and marking of carcasses.
NRS 583.472 - Unlawful advertising of meat or meat products; penalty.
NRS 583.481 - Registration of name, address and trade name of business required.
NRS 583.485 - Records; examination of facilities and inventory.
NRS 583.495 - Penalties; persons not subject to penalties.
NRS 583.505 - Reporting of violations.
NRS 583.529 - Detention of articles for investigation of violations; removal of official marks.
NRS 583.537 - Regulation of commerce in dead or diseased animals or poultry.
NRS 583.539 - Regulation of storage and handling of carcasses and products.
NRS 583.543 - Penalty for acceptance of bribes.
NRS 583.549 - Injunctive relief; specific enforcement.
NRS 583.555 - Costs of inspection; schedule of killing days.