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NH Rev Stat § 427:14-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:14-b - Disciplinary Action, Certified Meat Inspectors.

    427:14-b Disciplinary Action, Certified Meat Inspectors. –||I. The commissioner may undertake disciplinary proceedings:||(a) Upon his or her own initiative; or||(b) Upon written complaint of any person which charges that an establishment or a person certified by the commissioner has committed misconduct under paragraph II and which specifies the grounds therefor.||II. The commissioner, after notice and the opportunity to be heard, may refuse to issue a certificate or impose sanctions against a certificate holder, when he or she has evidence that the certificate holder or applicant has engaged in professional misconduct. Misconduct sufficient to support adverse action shall include:||(a) The practice of fraud or deceit in procuring or attempting to procure or renew a certificate to practice under this subdivision.||(b) Conviction of a felony or any offense involving moral turpitude.||(c) Unprofessional, unethical, or dishonorable conduct unworthy of, and affecting the practice of meat inspection.||(d) Unfitness or incompetency by reason of negligent habits or other causes, or negligent or willful acts performed in a manner inconsistent with the interests of persons relying on the expertise of the licensee.||(e) Addiction to the use of alcohol or other habit-forming drugs to a degree which renders the certificate holder unfit to practice under this subdivision.||(f) Mental or physical incompetency to practice under this subdivision.||(g) Willful or repeated violation of the provisions of this subdivision.||(h) Suspension or revocation of a license or certification, similar to one issued under this subdivision, in another jurisdiction and which has not been reinstated.||(i) Providing false testimony before the commissioner.||(j) Knowingly making or signing any false statement, certificate, or affidavit in connection with the practice of meat inspection.||III. The commissioner may take disciplinary action in any one or more of the following ways:||(a) By reprimand.||(b) By suspension, limitation, or restriction of a certificate to practice meat inspection for a period of up to 5 years.||(c) By revocation of a certification.||(d) By requiring the person to participate in a program of continuing education in the area or areas in which he or she has been found deficient.||(e) By requiring the certificate holder to practice under supervision for a period of time specified by the commissioner under rules adopted pursuant to RSA 541-A.||(f) By assessing administrative fines in amounts established by the commissioner which shall not exceed $2,000 per offense or, in the case of continuing offenses, $250 for each day the violation continues.|||Source. 2011, 130:3, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:15 - Bribery; Penalties.

    427:15 Bribery;  Penalties. –||I. Any person, firm, or corporation, or any agent or employee of any person, firm, or corporation, who shall give, pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any inspector, deputy inspector, chief inspector, or any other officer or employee of this state authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this subdivision, or by the rules of the commissioner, any money or other thing of value, with intent to influence said inspector, deputy inspector, chief inspector, or other officer or employee of this state in the discharge of any duty herein provided for shall be guilty of a felony.||II. Any person convicted of a violation of paragraph I shall be guilty of a class B felony if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.||III. Any inspector, deputy inspector, chief inspector, or other officer or employee of this state authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this subdivision who shall accept any money, gift, or other thing of value from any person, firm, or corporation, or officers, agents, or employees thereof, given with intent to influence his official action, or who shall receive or accept from any person, firm, or corporation engaged in intrastate commerce any gift, money, or thing of value given with any purpose or intent whatsoever, shall be guilty of a felony.||IV. Said official shall, upon conviction of a violation of paragraph III, be summarily discharged from office and shall be guilty of a class B felony.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:16 - Repealed by 2017, 145:17, VIII, eff. Aug. 15, 2017.

    427:16 Repealed by 2017, 145:17, VIII, eff. Aug. 15, 2017. –|
NH Rev Stat § 427:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:17 - Repealed by 2011, 130:11, II, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.

    427:17 Repealed by 2011, 130:11, II, eff. Aug. 5, 2011. –|
NH Rev Stat § 427:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:18 - Denatured or Humanly Inedible Meat.

    427:18 Denatured or Humanly Inedible Meat. –||I. Inspection shall not be provided under RSA 427:1-16 at any establishment for the slaughter of livestock or the preparation of any carcasses or parts or products of such animals which are not intended for use as human food.||II. Such articles shall, however, prior to their offer for sale or transportation in commerce unless naturally inedible by humans, be denatured or otherwise identified, as prescribed by rules of the commissioner, deter their use for human food.||III. No person, firm, or corporation shall buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in commerce any carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products of any such animals which are not intended for use as human food unless they are denatured or otherwise identified as required by the rules of the commissioner or are naturally inedible by humans.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985. 2011, 130:5, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:19 - Records.

    427:19 Records. –||I. The following records shall be made available for review by an authorized designee of the commissioner: the numbers and kinds of livestock slaughtered; quantities and types of products prepared; names and addresses of the owners of the livestock; bills of sale, invoices, bills of lading, receiving and shipping papers which all include the following: description of livestock or article, net weight of livestock or article, name and address of buyer and seller of livestock or article, name and address of consigner or recipient if other than the buyer, method of shipment, date of shipment, name and address of carrier; shipper's certificates required by other statutes and rules; and record of seal numbers of inedible products.||II. The following classes of persons, firms, and corporations shall permit access to the records upon presentation of official credentials during ordinary business hours.||(a) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage, for commerce in the business of slaughtering and livestock or preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals;||(b) Any persons, firms, or corporations, that engage in the business of buying or selling as meat brokers, wholesalers, or otherwise, or transporting, in commerce or storing in or for such commerce, any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals;||(c) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in business, in or for commerce as renderers, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or transporting, in such commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter.||III. All persons, firms, and corporations subject to such requirements shall at all reasonable times, upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the commissioner, afford such representative and any duly authorized representative of the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States accompanied by such representative of the commissioner access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy all such records, and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment of the fair market value for such samples. Records shall be kept at the place of business unless there are multiple facilities owned by a single entity, then records may be kept at headquarters.||IV. Records shall be retained for 2 years after December 31 of the year in which the transaction took place and further periods as commissioner may require for investigation or litigation under this subdivision.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985. 2011, 130:5, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:20 - Registration.

    427:20 Registration. –||I. No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in business, in or for commerce, as an establishment, unless, when required by rules of the commissioner, he or she has registered with the commissioner his or her name, and the address of each place of business at which, and all trade names under which, he or she conducts such business.||II. The commissioner shall issue certificates of registration and registration renewals to all registered establishments that fulfill all registration requirements including payment of the fee. Such certificate shall be displayed in a conspicuous place at the principal place of business of such establishment.||III. All certificates of registration issued by the commissioner shall take effect on July 1 and expire on June 30 of the following year. All registration fees collected shall be deposited in the general fund of the state.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985. 2011, 130:5, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:21 - Dead or Diseased Animals.

    427:21 Dead or Diseased Animals. –||No person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce, dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation in such commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals capable of use as human food, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless such transaction or transportation is made in accordance with such rules as the commissioner may adopt under RSA 541-A to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.|||Source. 1985, 72:1. eff. July 1, 1985. 2011, 130:5, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:22 - Repealed by 2011, 130:11, III, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.

    427:22 Repealed by 2011, 130:11, III, eff. Aug. 5, 2011. –|
NH Rev Stat § 427:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:23 - Revocation or Suspension of Inspection Service.

    427:23 Revocation or Suspension of Inspection Service. –||I. The commissioner may for a period of time or indefinitely, as he or she deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this subdivision, refuse to register, revoke, or suspend a registration of an establishment when he or she determines that such applicant or registrant is unfit to engage in any business requiring inspection under RSA 427:2-16 because the applicant or registrant, or anyone responsibly connected with the applicant or registrant, has been convicted in any federal or state court of:||(a) Any felony, or||(b) More than one violation of any law, other than a felony, based upon the acquiring, handling, or distributing of unwholesome, mislabeled, or deceptively packaged food or upon fraud in connection with transactions in food.||II. For the purpose of this section, a person shall be deemed to be responsibly connected with the business if he or she is a partner, officer, director, holder, or owner of 10 percent or more of its voting stock or employee in a managerial or executive capacity.||III. The determination and order of the commissioner with respect to responsible business connections under this section shall be final and conclusive, unless the affected applicant for or recipient of inspection service files application for judicial review within 30 days after the effective date of such order in the appropriate court as provided in RSA 427:26. Judicial review of any such order shall be upon the record upon which the determination and order are based.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985. 2011, 130:6, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:24 - Retention of Adulterated or Misbranded Meat.

    427:24 Retention of Adulterated or Misbranded Meat. –||Whenever any carcass, part of a carcass, meat or meat food product of livestock or any product exempted from the definition of a meat food product or any dead, dying, disabled, or deceased livestock, are found by any authorized representative of the commissioner upon any premises where it is held for purposes of, or during or after, distribution in intrastate commerce, and there is reason to believe that any such article is adulterated or misbranded and is capable of use as human food, or that it has not been inspected, or that such article or animal has been, or is intended to be, distributed in violation of this subdivision:||I. It may be retained by such representative for a period not to exceed 20 days, pending action under RSA 427:25 or notification of any federal authorities having jurisdiction over such article or animal, and shall not be moved by any person, firm, or corporation from the place at which it is located when so detained, until released by such representative.||II. All official marks may be required by such representative to be removed from such article or animal before it is released unless it appears to the satisfaction of the commissioner that the article or animal is eligible to retain such marks.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985. 2011, 130:6, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:25 - Condemnation; Seizure.

    427:25 Condemnation;  Seizure. –||I. Any carcass, part of a carcass, meat or meat food product of livestock or any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock, that are being transported in intrastate commerce, or are held for sale in this state after such transportation, shall be liable to be proceeded against and seized and condemned, at any time, on a libel of information in any proper court as provided in RSA 427:26 within the jurisdiction in which the article or animal is found, if:||(a) It is or has been prepared, sold, transported, or otherwise distributed or offered or received for distribution in violation of this subdivision;||(b) It is capable of use as human food and is adulterated or misbranded; or||(c) It is, in any other way, in violation of this subdivision.||II. If the article or animal is condemned, it shall, after entry of the decree, be disposed of by destruction or sale as the court may direct. If sold, the proceeds, less the court costs and fees, and storage and other proper expenses, shall be paid into the treasury of this state, but the article or animal shall not be sold contrary to the provisions of this subdivision, or the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; provided that:||(a) Upon the execution and delivery of a good and sufficient bond conditioned that the article or animal shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions of this subdivision or the laws of the United States the court may direct that such article or animal be delivered to the owner thereof subject to such supervision by authorized representatives of the commissioner as is necessary to insure compliance with the applicable laws.||(b) When a decree of condemnation is entered against the article or animal and it is released under bond, or destroyed, court costs and fees, and storage and other proper expenses shall be awarded against the person, if any, intervening as claimant of the article or animal.||(c) The proceedings in such libel cases shall conform, as nearly as may be, to the proceedings in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by jury of any issue of fact joined in any case, and all such proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of this state.||III. The provisions of this section shall in no way derogate from authority for condemnation or seizure conferred by other provisions of this subdivision or other laws.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985. 2011, 130:6, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:26 - Jurisdiction of Court.

    427:26 Jurisdiction of Court. –||The superior court is vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce and to prevent and restrain violations of this subdivision, and shall have jurisdiction in all other kinds of cases arising under this subdivision, except as provided in RSA 427:7, V.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985. 2011, 130:6, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:27 - Interference With Inspection.

    427:27 Interference With Inspection. –||I. Any person who forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his or her official duties under this subdivision shall be guilty of a class B felony.||II. Whoever, in the commission of any of the acts enumerated in paragraph I, uses a deadly or dangerous weapon, shall be guilty of a class A felony.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985. 2011, 130:6, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:28 - General Penalty; Warning.

    427:28 General Penalty;  Warning. –||I. Any person, firm, or corporation who violates any provision of this subdivision for which no other criminal penalty is provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.||II. If such violation involves intent to defraud, or any distribution or attempted distribution of an article that is adulterated, except as defined in RSA 427:2, VII(h), such person, firm, or corporation shall be guilty of a class B felony if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.||III. No person, firm, or corporation shall be subject to penalties under this section for receiving for transportation any article or animal in violation of this subdivision if such receipt was made in good faith, unless such person, firm, or corporation refuses to furnish on request of a representative of the commissioner the name and address of the person from whom he or she received such article or animal, and copies of all documents, if there are any, pertaining to the delivery of the article or animal to him or her.||IV. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as requiring the commissioner to report for prosecution, or for the institution of libel or injunction proceedings, minor violations of this subdivision whenever he or she believes that the public interest will be adequately served by a suitable written notice of warning.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985. 2011, 130:6, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 427:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XL - Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry|Title 427 - Livestock and Meat Inspection|Section 427:30 - Refusal to Answer; False Statements.

    427:30 Refusal to Answer;  False Statements. –||I. Any person, firm, or corporation that shall neglect or refuse:||(a) To attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry, or||(b) To produce documentary evidence, if in his, her, or its power to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the commissioner shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.||II. Any person, firm, or corporation shall be guilty of a class B felony that shall willfully:||(a) Make or cause to be made any false entry or statement of fact in any report required to be made under this subdivision;||(b) Make or cause to be made any false entry in any account, record, or memorandum kept by any person, firm, or corporation subject to this subdivision;||(c) Neglect or fail to make, or to cause to be made, full, true and correct entries in such accounts, records, or memoranda of all facts and transactions appertaining to the business of such person, firm, or corporation;||(d) Remove out of the jurisdiction of this state;||(e) Mutilate, alter, or by any other means falsify any documentary evidence of any such person, firm, or corporation; or||(f) Refuse to submit to the commissioner or to any of his or her authorized agents, for the purpose of inspection and taking copies, any documentary evidence of any such person, firm, or corporation in his or her possession or within his or her control.||III. If any person, firm, or corporation required by this subdivision to file any annual or special report shall fail so to do within the time fixed by the commissioner for filing the same, and such failure shall continue for 30 days after notice of such default, such person, firm, or corporation shall forfeit to this state the sum of $100 for each and every day of the continuance of such failure, which forfeiture shall be payable to the treasury of this state, and shall be recoverable in a civil suit in the name of the state brought in the superior court for the county where the person, firm, or corporation has his, her, or its principal office or in the superior court for the county in which he, she, or it shall do business.||IV. It shall be the duty of the various county attorneys, under the direction of the attorney general of this state, to prosecute for the recovery of such forfeitures. The costs and expenses of such prosecution shall be paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts of this state.||V. Any officer or employee of this state or meat inspector certified under this act who shall make public any information obtained by the commissioner without his or her authority, unless directed by a court, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985. 2011, 130:6, eff. Aug. 5, 2011.|