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HI Rev Stat § 159-56 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|159. Hawaii Meat Inspection Act|159-56 Administration of oath.

  §159-56 Administration of oath. When a complaint is made to any prosecuting officer of the violation of this chapter or the rules adopted pursuant thereto, the division head or the division head's designee who issued the citation and summons shall subscribe to the complaint under oath. [L 1986, c 206, pt of §1]
HI Rev Stat § 159-57 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|159. Hawaii Meat Inspection Act|159-57 Failure to obey summons.

  §159-57 Failure to obey summons. (a) Any person who fails to appear at the place and time specified in the citation and summons issued to that person by the division head or the division head's designee upon the person's citation for violation of the meat inspection laws or rules shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.  (b) If any person fails to comply with a citation and summons issued to that person, the division head or the division head's designee shall cause a complaint to be entered against the person and secure the issuance of a warrant for that person's arrest.  (c) When a complaint is made to any prosecuting officer of the violation of any provision of this chapter or any rule adopted thereunder, the division head or the division head's designee who issued the complaint and summons shall subscribe to it under oath. [L 1986, c 206, pt of §1]
HI Rev Stat § 161-1 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-1 Short title.

  §161-1 Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Hawaii Poultry Inspection Act". [L 1969, c 212, §1]
HI Rev Stat § 161-6 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-6 Division of animal industry.

  §161-6 Division of animal industry. The division of animal industry of the department of agriculture shall administer this chapter subject to the supervision of the board. The board may delegate any of its powers under this chapter, except the power to make rules and regulations, or may direct any of its duties to be performed by any appropriate agents, officers, or employees of the board.  The board may employ on a full or part-time basis veterinarians and poultry inspectors, subject to chapter 76, to carry out a uniform inspection system of poultry or poultry products throughout the State. All poultry inspectors shall be under the supervision and control of a veterinarian employed by the board. [L 1969, c 212, §4; am L 2000, c 253, §150]
HI Rev Stat § 161-7 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-7 General powers.

  §161-7 General powers. The department, through its board, may:  (1) Regulate, supervise, inspect, and control the slaughtering of poultry and the manufacture, processing, transportation, packaging, labeling, and disposal of poultry or poultry products involved in intrastate commerce; and  (2) Adopt, amend, and repeal rules as are necessary to implement this chapter, subject to chapter 91, on the following matters:  (A) The issuance of licenses, including the class of licenses to be issued;  (B) The type of equipment or facilities that may be used in poultry slaughtering and poultry processing operations;  (C) The internal operations of poultry slaughterhouses and poultry processing establishments;  (D) The procedures for ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections and the reinspection of poultry or poultry products used in processing, and the disposal of diseased carcasses and parts of carcasses and poultry or poultry products found unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human consumption;  (E) The hours of slaughtering and processing, and the conditions under which slaughtering and processing may be conducted at other than scheduled times;  (F) The labeling and packaging of poultry or poultry products;  (G) The storing, handling, and transportation of poultry or poultry products;  (H) The sanitary conditions of all establishments where poultry is slaughtered or poultry products are processed or prepared; and  (I) Any other matter as may be necessary or desirable to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the board, without regard to the notice and public hearing requirements of chapter 91, may adopt all federal poultry inspection regulations, including changes made from time to time by the United States Secretary of Agriculture, as rules for the efficient administration of this chapter. Prior to the effective date of any such rules, the department shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation a notice that includes:  (i) Either a statement of the substance of the proposed rule adoption, amendment, or repeal; or a general description of the subjects involved and the purposes to be achieved by the proposed rule adoption, amendment, or repeal; and  (ii) A statement that a copy of the proposed rule to be adopted, the proposed rule amendment, or the rule proposed to be repealed will be mailed to any interested person who requests a copy, together with a description of where and how the requests may be made.  The notice shall be mailed to all persons who have made a timely written request of the department for advance notice of these rules or of the department's rulemaking proceedings. The department may require reimbursement for the cost of preparing and mailing the copies. [L 1969, c 212, §5; am L 1995, c 89, §2]
HI Rev Stat § 161-8 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-8 Information, investigations, hearings.

  §161-8 Information, investigations, hearings. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the board may:  (a) Gather and compile information which relates to the business operations of persons being regulated under this chapter and such other information necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. Information obtained in confidence by the board shall be kept confidential and shall not be disclosed by the board except under order of court.  (b) Hold hearings, take testimony, administer oaths, subpoena witnesses and issue subpoenas for the production of records, or documents of any kind. Upon failure or refusal of any witness to obey any subpoena, the board may petition the circuit court, and upon proper showing, the court may enter an order compelling the witness to appear and testify or produce documentary evidence. Failure to obey the order of court shall be punishable as a contempt of court.  No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing documentary evidence before the board in obedience to a subpoena of the board on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary, or otherwise, required of the person may tend to incriminate the person or subject the person to a penalty or forfeiture; but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which the person is compelled, after having claimed the person's privilege of self-incrimination, to testify, or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before the board in obedience to a subpoena issued by the board; provided that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution for perjury committed in so testifying.  (c) Request the attorney general of this State to seek relief from the appropriate circuit courts for writs of mandamus commanding any person, firm, or corporation to comply with the provisions of this chapter or any order of the board made in pursuance thereof or to enjoin any violation of this chapter or any order of the board.  Witnesses summoned before the board shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the circuit courts of this State, and witnesses whose depositions are taken and the persons taking them shall severally be entitled to the same fees as are paid for like services in the courts. [L 1969, c 212, §6; gen ch 1985]
HI Rev Stat § 161-11 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-11 Certificate of sanitation.

  §161-11 Certificate of sanitation. The board may issue certificates of sanitation to poultry slaughterhouses and poultry processors which are subject to this chapter and which meet minimum sanitary specifications required for (1) the slaughtering of poultry for use of the poultry or poultry products in intrastate commerce, and (2) for the processing, transporting, storing, and handling of poultry or poultry products in intrastate commerce. The board may adopt rules subject to chapter 91 governing the minimum sanitary specifications and prescribing forms, requiring reports, and providing for periodic renewals of certificates of sanitation.  Notwithstanding any requirement under this chapter or the rules adopted under this chapter which require the renovation or upgrading of the physical facilities of poultry slaughterhouses or poultry processors in order to obtain a certificate of sanitation, the board, as of July 1, 1970, shall continue to issue certificates of sanitation to poultry slaughterhouses and poultry processors now licensed by the State, and shall allow them to continue their operations; provided that the facilities of the poultry slaughterhouses and poultry processors shall be sanitary and that the products which emerge from their respective operations are wholesome, not adulterated, and fit for human consumption; and provided further that upon the sale or transfer of any of the foregoing businesses, the person to whom the business is transferred shall be required to meet all of the requirements of this chapter and the rules adopted under this chapter. [L 1969, c 212, §7; am L 1993, c 92, §3]
HI Rev Stat § 161-12 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-12 License required.

  §161-12 License required. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of slaughtering poultry or manufacturing or processing of poultry or poultry products without a license as required under this part. [L 1969, c 212, §8]
HI Rev Stat § 161-13 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-13 Application for a license.

  §161-13 Application for a license. The board may issue licenses to poultry slaughterhouses and poultry processing establishments having certificates of sanitation issued under section 161-11. An applicant for an original or renewal license to operate as a poultry slaughterhouse operator or poultry processor shall file an application upon a form prepared by the board, containing such information which the board deems necessary for the administration of this chapter.  The license year shall be from July 1 to the following June 30. All applications for renewal of licenses must be made at least thirty days before the commencement of the license year. [L 1969, c 212, §9]
HI Rev Stat § 161-14 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-14 License fees.

  §161-14 License fees. A fee of $25 per license year shall be assessed. The license fees collected shall be deposited with the state general fund. [L 1969, c 212, §10]
HI Rev Stat § 161-15 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-15 Granting, suspending, and revoking licenses.

  §161-15 Granting, suspending, and revoking licenses. The action of the board in refusing to grant or renew a license, or in revoking or suspending a license, may be reviewed in the manner provided by chapter 91.  (a) No license shall be denied unless the board finds after due notice and opportunity of hearing in accordance with chapter 91, one or more of the following:  (1) That the applicant does not qualify or does not possess the facilities to conduct a business properly.  (2) That the applicant does not have the financial responsibility to conduct a business properly.  (3) That the issuance of a license is otherwise not in the public interest.  (b) The board may refuse to renew a license or may suspend or revoke a license upon due notice and opportunity of hearing in accordance with chapter 91, to the licensee when it finds any of the following:  (1) The licensee has been adjudged a bankrupt.  (2) The licensee has violated chapter 480, and said violation is directly or indirectly involved with the state poultry industry.  (3) The licensee has failed to keep records or to furnish the statements or information required by the board.  (4) The licensee has intentionally made a false or misleading statement upon which the license was issued.  (5) The licensee has violated or failed to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter.  (6) The licensee has ceased to operate the business for which the license was issued.  (c) The board may conditionally renew a license or may conditionally decline to suspend or revoke a license, but such condition shall have appropriate relation to the administration of this chapter. [L 1969, c 212, §11]
HI Rev Stat § 161-16 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-16 Records of licensees.

  §161-16 Records of licensees. The board may, by regulations, require licensees to keep such records and information as it deems necessary for the proper enforcement of this chapter. [L 1969, c 212, §12]
HI Rev Stat § 161-21 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-21 Ante-mortem inspection.

  §161-21 Ante-mortem inspection. For the purpose of preventing the use in intrastate commerce of poultry or poultry products which are adulterated, the board shall cause to be made, by veterinarians and poultry inspectors appointed for that purpose, an examination and inspection of all poultry, before they are allowed to enter into any poultry slaughtering, packing, poultry-canning, or similar establishment in this State in which slaughtering and processing of poultry or poultry products are conducted solely for intrastate commerce; and all poultry found on such inspection to show symptoms of disease shall be set apart from all other poultry and slaughtered or otherwise disposed of as provided in the rules and regulations, and when so slaughtered, the carcasses of the poultry shall be subject to a careful examination and inspection, all as provided by the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the board. [L 1969, c 212, §13]
HI Rev Stat § 161-24 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-24 Sanitation.

  §161-24 Sanitation. The board shall cause to be made by veterinarians or poultry inspectors, an inspection of the sanitary conditions of all poultry slaughtering, poultry-canning, packing, or similar establishments in which poultry are slaughtered and the poultry or poultry products thereof are processed solely for intrastate commerce and to prescribe the rules and regulations of sanitation under which such establishments shall be maintained; and where the sanitary conditions of any such establishment are such that the poultry or poultry products are rendered adulterated, it shall refuse to allow the poultry or poultry products to be labeled, marked, stamped, or tagged as "Hawaii Inspected and Passed". [L 1969, c 212, §16]
HI Rev Stat § 161-25 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-25 Slaughter, processing, transportation, and selling.

  §161-25 Slaughter, processing, transportation, and selling. No person shall, with respect to any poultry or poultry product:  (1) Slaughter any such poultry or process any such poultry or poultry products which are capable of use as human food, at any establishment processing such poultry or poultry products solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.  (2) Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, (A) any such poultry or poultry products which are capable of use as human food, and are adulterated or misbranded at the time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale or transportation, or receipt for transportation; or (B) any poultry or poultry products required to be inspected under this chapter unless they have been so inspected and passed.  (3) Do, with respect to any such poultry or poultry products which are capable of use as human food, any act while they are being transported in intrastate commerce or held for sale after such transportation, which is intended to cause or has the effect of causing such poultry or poultry product to be adulterated or misbranded. [L 1969, c 212, §17]
HI Rev Stat § 161-26 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-26 Forgery of mark, brand, or label.

  §161-26 Forgery of mark, brand, or label. (a) No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person shall cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form of official certificate or simulation thereof, except as authorized by the board.  (b) No person shall:  (1) Forge any official device, mark, or certificate;  (2) Without authorization from the board, use any official device, mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate;  (3) Contrary to the regulations prescribed by the board, fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate;  (4) Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the board or its representative, any official device or any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate or any device or label or any poultry or poultry product bearing any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark;  (5) Knowingly make any false statement in any shipper's certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided for in the regulations prescribed by the board; or  (6) Knowingly represent that any poultry or poultry product has been inspected and passed, or exempted, under this chapter when, in fact, it has, respectively, not been so inspected and passed, or exempted. [L 1969, c 212, §18]
HI Rev Stat § 161-27 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-27 Inspectors.

  §161-27 Inspectors. Veterinarians and poultry inspectors shall examine and inspect all poultry, all carcasses and parts thereof, and all poultry products, and the sanitary conditions of all establishments in which poultry or poultry products are processed; and the veterinarians and poultry inspectors shall refuse to stamp, mark, tag, or label any carcass or any part thereof, or poultry product, prepared in any establishment until it shall have actually been inspected and found to be not adulterated; and shall perform such other duties as are provided by this chapter and by the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the board and the board shall, from time to time, make such rules and regulations in accordance with chapter 91, as are necessary for the efficient execution of this chapter, and all inspections and examinations made under this chapter shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the board and this chapter. [L 1969, c 212, §19]
HI Rev Stat § 161-28 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-28 Bribery.

  §161-28 Bribery. (a) Any person or employee of any person, who gives, pays, or offers, directly or indirectly, to any inspector, or to any other officer or employee of the State authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter or by the rules adopted by the board, any money or other thing of value, with intent to influence the inspector or other officer or employee of this State in the discharge of any duty shall be guilty of a class C felony. The minimum fine shall be $5,000.  (b) Any inspector or other officer or employee of this State authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter who accepts any money, gift, or other thing of value from any person, officer, agent, or employee of any person, given with intent to influence the state inspector's, officer's, or employee's official actions, shall be discharged from office and shall be guilty of a class C felony. The minimum fine shall be $1,000.  (c) Notwithstanding subsection (a), any inspector or other officer or employee of this State authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter who receives or accepts from any person who is engaged in intrastate commerce and is subject to this chapter any gift, money, or other thing of value given with or without intent to influence the inspector's, officer's, or employee's official actions, shall be discharged from office and shall be guilty of a class C felony. The minimum fine shall be $1,000. [L 1969, c 212, §20; gen ch 1985; am L 1993, c 92, §5]
HI Rev Stat § 161-30 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-30 Storing, handling, and transporting.

  §161-30 Storing, handling, and transporting. The board may by regulations prescribe conditions under which poultry or poultry products, capable of use as human food, shall be stored or otherwise handled by any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing or transporting, in or for intrastate commerce, such poultry or poultry products, whenever the board deems such action necessary to assure that the poultry or poultry products will not be adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the consumer. Violation of any such regulation is prohibited. [L 1969, c 212, §22]
HI Rev Stat § 161-36 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 11. Agriculture and Animals|161. Poultry Inspection|161-36 Records; subject to examination.

  §161-36 Records; subject to examination. (a) For the enforcement of this chapter, the following classes of persons shall keep records, as the board by rule may require, that will fully and correctly disclose all transactions; and all persons subject to these requirements shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by an authorized representative of the board, afford that representative or any authorized representative of the United States Secretary of Agriculture access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy all those records, and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment of the fair market value therefor:  (1) Any person that is engaged, in or for intrastate commerce, in the business of slaughtering any poultry or processing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any poultry capable of use as human or animal food, including any person operating under the exemptions in section 161-29(a)(2) or (3);  (2) Any person that is engaged in the business of buying or selling, as poultry brokers, wholesalers, or otherwise, or transporting in intrastate commerce, or storing in or for intrastate commerce, any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any poultry;  (3) Any person that is engaged in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as renderers, or engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting, in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry, or parts of the carcasses of any such poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter.  (b) Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for the period specified by rule. [L 1969, c 212, §23; am L 1993, c 92, §7]