39-5-25. Regulation of entry and handling of equine carcasses and products or other meat food products in official establishments.
If required by rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26 by the secretary, equines and their carcasses, parts thereof, and meat food products shall be prepared in establishments separate from the establishments in which cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, ratites, captive cervidae, and other species as requested by the owner and authorized by the secretary are slaughtered or their carcasses, parts thereof, or meat food products are prepared. The secretary may by rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26 otherwise limit the entry of carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat food products, and other materials into any establishment at which inspection under this chapter is maintained, under such conditions as the secretary may prescribe to assure that allowing the entry of such articles into inspected establishments will be consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
Source: SL 1968, ch 158, §11 (a); SL 1996, ch 248, §4.