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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Ch. 251
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other labeling requirement, the poultry products are identified
with the producer's name and address, and (iii) they are not
otherwise misbranded and are sound, clean, and fit for human food
when distributed;
(6) Slaughtering of any sound, healthy poultry or
processing of its poultry products by any person for direct
distribution by him to household consumers, restaurants, hotels,
and boarding houses for use in their dining rooms, or in
preparation of meals for direct sale to consumers, if, in lieu of
other labeling requirements, every distributed poultry product is
identified with the processor's name and address, and the poultry
products are not otherwise misbranded and are sound, clean, and
fit for human food when distributed;
(7) Small enterprises, including any poultry producer
which slaughters or cuts up poultry for distribution in
intrastate commerce as carcasses or parts of carcasses, if the
Secretary determines that this exemption does not impair the
protection of consumers from adulterated or misbranded poultry;
(8) Any operation of the type traditionally and
usually conducted at any retail store, restaurant, or similar
retail-type establishment, if it is conducted at one of these
establishments for sale in normal retail quantities or service of
these articles to consumers at the establishment, and if poultry
or poultry products are not processed at the establishment for
distribution in interstate commerce or are not subject to
inspection under the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act; and
(9) Poultry raised by a poultry producer on his own
farm if (i) he slaughters not more than 250 turkeys, or not more
than an equivalent number of birds of other species during the
calendar year for which this exemption is being determined (four
birds of other species being deemed the equivalent of one
turkey); (ii) he does not engage in buying or selling poultry
products other than those produced from poultry raised on his own
farm; and (iii) the poultry moves only in intrastate commerce.
(b) The exemptions in paragraphs (5) and (6), do not apply
if the person, whose operation is exempted in the applicable
paragraph, engages in the business of buying and selling poultry
or poultry products other than those specified in this paragraph
in the current calendar year. The exemptions of paragraphs (5),
(6), and (7) also do not apply to any person who slaughters or
processes [the products of more than 5,000 turkeys or 20,000
bird] A QUANTITY OF TURKEYS OR BIRDS of other species in the
current calendar year[.] WHICH DOES NOT ENTITLE AN EXEMPTION
UNDER THE FEDERAL POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT.
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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1983.
Approved May 10, 1983.
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