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SC Code § 47-15-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 15 - Feeding Of Garbage To Swine|Section 47-15-30. Unlawful to sell hogs consuming garbage; unlawful to permit hogs on garbage dumps.

 (a) It shall be unlawful for anyone to sell or offer for sale hogs which have consumed any garbage within a period of thirty days prior to date of sale.  (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to permit hogs on any garbage dump.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-526; 1970 (56) 2562.
SC Code § 47-15-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 15 - Feeding Of Garbage To Swine|Section 47-15-40. Notification required from certain persons disposing of garbage.

 Any person who sells, gives away or otherwise disposes of garbage to any person, except those persons whose garbage is collected by municipalities or persons who have a permit to collect garbage or to those who sell, give away or otherwise dispose of their ordinary household garbage, shall notify the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission, giving the name and address of the person who obtained the garbage.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-523; 1970 (56) 2562; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 31, eff May 3, 1994.
SC Code § 47-15-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 15 - Feeding Of Garbage To Swine|Section 47-15-50. Inspection of premises where swine are kept.

 Any authorized representative of the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission is authorized to enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property where swine are kept for the purpose of inspecting and investigating conditions relating to the feeding of garbage to swine.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-524; 1970 (56) 2562; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 31, eff May 3, 1994.
SC Code § 47-15-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 15 - Feeding Of Garbage To Swine|Section 47-15-60. Exemptions.

 This chapter shall not apply to any person who feeds his own household garbage to swine, except that no person shall sell or offer for sale any hogs which have consumed any garbage within thirty days of sale.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-528; 1970 (56) 2562.
SC Code § 47-15-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 15 - Feeding Of Garbage To Swine|Section 47-15-70. Administration and enforcement.

 The State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission is charged with administration and enforcement of this chapter in accordance with the terms of this chapter and Chapter 4 of Title 47.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-525; 1970 (56) 2562; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 22, eff May 3, 1994.
SC Code § 47-15-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 15 - Feeding Of Garbage To Swine|Section 47-15-80. Penalties; injunctions.

 A person who violates this chapter or regulations promulgated under it is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130. The person may be enjoined from continuing the violation. Each day on which a violation occurs constitutes a separate violation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-527; 1970 (56) 2562; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 23, eff May 3, 1994.
SC Code § 47-17-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-10. Short title.

 This article may be cited as the "South Carolina Meat and Meat Food Regulations and Inspection Law of 1967."  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-611; 1967 (55) 293.
SC Code § 47-17-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-30. Antemortem and postmortem inspections; quarantine, segregation, and reinspection; condemnation of unwholesome livestock and meat.

 (a) For the purpose of preventing the entry into or movement in intrastate commerce of any livestock carcass, part thereof, meat food product or meat by-product which is unwholesome or adulterated and is intended for or capable of use as human food, the Director shall, where and to the extent considered by him necessary, cause to be made by inspectors antemortem inspection of livestock in any official establishment where livestock is slaughtered.  (b) For the purpose stated in paragraph (a), the Director whenever slaughtering or other processing operations are being conducted, shall cause to be made by inspectors postmortem inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of each animal slaughtered in any such official establishment and shall cause to be made by inspectors an inspection of all meat food products processed in any official establishment in which meat food products are processed for intrastate commerce.  (c) The Director shall also cause, at any time, such quarantine, segregation, and reinspection of livestock, livestock carcasses and parts thereof, meat food products and meat by-products in official establishments as he deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this article.  (d) All livestock carcasses and parts thereof, meat food products and meat by-products found by an inspector to be unwholesome or adulterated in any official establishment shall be condemned and shall, if no appeal be taken from such determination of condemnation, be destroyed for human food purposes under the supervision of an inspector. Provided, that articles, which may by reprocessing be made wholesome and not adulterated, need not be so condemned and destroyed if so reprocessed under the supervision of an inspector and thereafter found to be wholesome and not adulterated. If an appeal be taken from such determination, the articles shall be appropriately marked and segregated pending completion of an appeal inspection, which appeal shall be at the cost of the appellant if the Director determines that the appeal is frivolous. If the determination of condemnation is sustained, the articles shall be destroyed for human food purposes under the supervision of an inspector.  (e) For the purposes stated in this section all condemnations of livestock, livestock carcasses, parts thereof, meat food products or meat by-products, will be made only by authority of a veterinary inspector.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-613; 1967 (55) 293.
SC Code § 47-17-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-40. Sanitary conditions and practices required in slaughtering and processing establishments.

 (a) Each official establishment at which livestock is slaughtered or livestock carcasses or parts thereof, meat food products and meat by-products are processed for intrastate commerce shall have such premises, facilities, and equipment, and be operated in accordance with such sanitary practices, as are required by rules or regulations prescribed by the Director for the purpose of preventing the entry into and movement in such commerce of carcasses, parts thereof, meat food products, and meat by-products which are unwholesome or adulterated. No livestock carcasses or parts thereof, meat food product or meat by-product shall be admitted into any official establishment unless they have been prepared only under inspection pursuant to this article or the Federal Meat Inspection Act, or their admission is permitted by rules or regulations prescribed by the Director under this article.  (b) The Director shall refuse to render inspection to any establishment whose premises, facilities, or equipment, or the operation thereof, fail to meet the requirements of this section. The Director shall immediately notify the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control of the name and address of any establishment for which the Director shall refuse to render veterinary inspection service.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-614; 1967 (55) 293.
SC Code § 47-17-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-70. Slaughtering or processing except in compliance with article prohibited.

 Subject to the provisions of Section 47-17-140(a), no establishment in this State shall slaughter any livestock or process any livestock carcasses, or parts thereof, meat food products or meat by-products, for human consumption, except in compliance with the requirements of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-617; 1967 (55) 293.
SC Code § 47-17-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-80. Records.

 For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this article, persons engaged in this State in the business of processing for intrastate commerce or transporting, shipping or receiving in such commerce livestock slaughtered for human consumption, or meat, meat food products or meat by-products, or holding such articles so received, shall maintain such records as the Director by regulation may require, showing, to the extent that they are concerned therewith, the receipt, delivery, sale, movement, or disposition of such articles and shall, upon the request of a duly authorized representative of the Director, permit him at reasonable times to have access to and to copy all such records. Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for such period of time as the Director may be regulations prescribe.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-618; 1967 (55) 293.
SC Code § 47-17-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-100. Violations.

 (A) A person who violates Section 47-17-60, 47-17-70, 47-17-80, or 47-17-120 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130; but if such violation involves intent to defraud, or any distribution or attempted distribution of an article that is adulterated, such person shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. When construing or enforcing the provision of such sections, the act, omission, or failure of any person acting for or employed by any individual, partnership, corporation, or association within the scope of his employment or office shall in every case be deemed the act, omission, or failure of such individual, partnership, corporation, or association as well as of such person.  (B) When construing or enforcing this article, the act, omission, or failure of a person acting for or employed by an individual, a partnership, a corporation, an association, or other business unit, within the scope of his employment or office, is deemed the act, omission, or failure of the individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit, as well as of the person.  (C) No carrier or warehouseman is subject to the penalties of this article, other than the penalties for violation of Section 47-17-80, by reason of his receipt, carriage, holding, or delivery, in the usual course of business, as a carrier or warehouseman, of livestock carcasses or their parts, meat food products, or meat by-products owned by another person unless the carrier or warehouseman has knowledge, or is in possession of facts which would cause a reasonable person to believe, that the articles were not inspected or marked in accordance with this article or were not otherwise in compliance with this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-620; 1967 (55) 293; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 25, eff May 3, 1994; 2000 Act No. 290, Section 7, eff May 19, 2000.
SC Code § 47-17-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-120. Permit required; fee; application; refusal, revocation, or suspension.

 (A) A person operating an establishment in which equine, cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are slaughtered or in which meat, meat by-products, or meat food products of, or derived from, equine, cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are wholly or in part canned, cured, smoked, salted, packed, rendered, or otherwise prepared, which are offered for sale as food for humans shall secure a permit from the commission. This section is not applicable to persons exempted from inspection under Section 47-17-90 (1) and (2).  (B) The permit fee is fifty dollars annually or for part of a year. The permit year is July first to June thirtieth. The fees must be retained by the commission. The commission by regulation may increase the fee to not more than two hundred dollars.  (C) Applications for permits must be in writing to the commission on forms it prescribes.  (D) The commission, for cause, may refuse to grant a permit, may revoke or modify a permit, or assess a civil penalty in accordance with Section 47-4-130. Veterinary inspection must not be conducted in an establishment whose permit has been denied, suspended, or revoked. The commission immediately shall notify the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control of action upon a permit.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-620.2; 1967 (55) 293; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 26, eff May 3, 1994.
SC Code § 47-17-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-130. Rules and regulations.

 The Director shall promulgate such rules and regulations and appoint such veterinarians and other qualified personnel as are necessary to carry out the purposes or provisions of this article. Such rules and regulations shall be in conformity with the rules and regulations under the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control as now in effect and with subsequent amendments thereof unless they are considered by the Director as not to be in accord with the objectives of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-620.3; 1967 (55) 293.
SC Code § 47-17-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-140. Article inapplicable to transactions regulated under Federal Meat Inspection Act; cooperation with Federal, state, and local agencies; inadequate personnel.

 (a) This article shall not apply to any act or transaction subject to regulations under the Federal Meat Inspection Act.  (b) The Director shall cooperate with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and may cooperate with the Federal Government in carrying out the provisions of this article or the Federal Meat Inspection Act.  (c) The provisions of this article shall be applied in such a manner as to maintain the support and cooperation of all State and local agencies dealing with animals, animal diseases and human diseases, and in no way shall this article restrict the authority given to the Department of Health and Environmental Control, the State Department of Agriculture or any other agency under the General Statutes of South Carolina.  (d) No person shall be prohibited from the operation of a business regulated by this article because of the inability of the Director to provide adequate personnel for inspection within two years from July 1, 1967.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-620.4; 1967 (55) 293.
SC Code § 47-17-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-150. Cost of inspection.

 The cost of inspection rendered under this article shall be borne by this State except that the cost of overtime and holiday work performed in establishments subject to the provisions of this article at such rates as the Director may determine shall be borne by such establishments. Sums received by the Director in reimbursement of sums paid out by him for such premium pay work shall be available without fiscal year limitations to carry out the purposes of this section.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-620.5; 1967 (55) 293.
SC Code § 47-17-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-310. Unlawful importation of foreign meat containing communicable diseases.

 It shall be unlawful to import from foreign countries into the State of South Carolina any type of meat, whether fresh, dried or canned, which is not free of communicable diseases which adversely affect the people of South Carolina and the animal life of the State. All foreign meats imported into the State and offered for sale wholesale and retail shall be labeled "imported." The word imported shall be of size twenty-four point type.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-621; 1962 (52) 1981.
SC Code § 47-17-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-320. Enforcement; confiscation and destruction of meat.

 The Department of Health and Environmental Control is charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this article. All meat found by the Department of Health and Environmental Control which is landed within the boundaries of the State and does not comply with the provisions of this article shall be confiscated and destroyed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-622; 1962 (52) 1981.
SC Code § 47-17-510 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-510. Prohibition against misleading or deceptive practices, labeling, or misrepresenting product that is cell-cultured meat.

 A person who advertises, offers for sale, or sells all or part of a carcass shall not engage in any misleading or deceptive practices, labeling, or misrepresenting a product as "meat" or "clean meat" that is cell-cultured meat/protein, or is not derived from harvested production livestock, poultry, fish, or crustaceans.  HISTORY: 2019 Act No. 79 (H.4245), Section 1, eff May 16, 2019.
SC Code § 47-17-520 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-520. Application of article.

 The provisions of this article do not apply to plant-based meat substitutes.  HISTORY: 2019 Act No. 79 (H.4245), Section 1, eff May 16, 2019.
SC Code § 47-17-530 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 17 - Meat And Meat Food|Section 47-17-530. Violations; penalties.

 A person who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be imprisoned not more than one year, or fined not more than one thousand dollars, or both.  HISTORY: 2019 Act No. 79 (H.4245), Section 1, eff May 16, 2019.
SC Code § 47-19-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 19 - Poultry Products Inspection Law|Section 47-19-10. Short title; administration of chapter.

 This chapter may be cited as the South Carolina Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1969 and must be administered by the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission in accordance with this chapter and Chapter 4 of this title.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-631; 1969 (56) 425; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 27, eff May 3, 1994.
SC Code § 47-19-25 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 19 - Poultry Products Inspection Law|Section 47-19-25. Voluntary inspection programs for certain birds by the Livestock-Poultry Health Commission.

 (A) The commission may provide for voluntary inspection programs for families or species of birds for which inspection is not mandated by law. These birds include, but are not limited to, ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries, and other ratites.  (B) The commission shall establish hourly fees for voluntary inspections to ensure that its direct and indirect costs are reimbursed by the person requesting an inspection. Indirect costs such as training and preparation of standards and procedures must be amortized and included in the fees.  (C) Readily ascertainable portions of fees must be collected in advance unless the inspector is licensed pursuant to Chapter 17 or 19 of this title.  (D) Fees collected under this section must be retained by the commission for use in carrying out the purposes of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 17, Section 1, eff April 4, 1995.
SC Code § 47-19-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 19 - Poultry Products Inspection Law|Section 47-19-30. Designation of state agency for cooperating with Secretary of Agriculture under Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act.

 (A) The Livestock-Poultry Health Commission is designated as the state agency which is responsible for cooperating with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States under the provisions of Section 5 of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act. The commission shall cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States in developing and administering the poultry products inspection program of this State under this chapter to assure that not later than August 18, 1970, the state requirements are at least equal to those imposed under Sections 1-4, 6-10, and 12-22 of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act and in developing and administering the program of this State under this act in a manner so as to effectuate the purposes of this chapter and the federal act.  (B) In its cooperative efforts, the commission may accept from the secretary advisory assistance in planning and otherwise developing the state program, technical and laboratory assistance and training, including necessary curricular and instructional materials and equipment, and financial and other aid for administration of the program. The commission may spend public funds of this State appropriated for administration of this chapter to pay the share of the estimated total cost of the cooperative program agreed upon by the commission and the secretary.  (C) The commission may recommend to the Secretary of Agriculture officials or employees of this State necessary for appointment to the advisory committees provided for in Section 5 of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act. The Director of the Division of Livestock-Poultry Health Programs of Clemson University shall serve as the representative of the Governor for consultation with the secretary under paragraph (c) of Section 5 of the act unless the Governor selects another representative.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-633; 1969 (56) 425; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 29, eff May 3, 1994.
SC Code § 47-19-35 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry|Chapter 19 - Poultry Products Inspection Law|Section 47-19-35. Permits for slaughtering and packaging poultry; fees.

 (A) A person operating an establishment in which poultry is slaughtered or in which poultry, poultry by-products, or poultry food products, of or derived from fowl, are wholly or in part canned, cured, smoked, salted, packed, rendered, or otherwise prepared which are offered as food for humans shall secure a permit from the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission. This section is not applicable to persons exempted from inspection under Section 47-19-140.  (B) The permit fee is fifty dollars annually or for part of a year. The permit year is July first to June thirtieth. These fees must be retained by the commission. The commission by regulation may increase the fee not to exceed two hundred dollars.  (C) Applications for permits must be in writing to the commission on forms it prescribes.  (D) The commission, for cause, may refuse to grant a permit, may suspend, revoke, or modify the permit, or may assess a civil penalty in accordance with Section 47-4-130. Veterinary inspection must not be conducted in an establishment whose permit has been denied, suspended, or revoked. The commission immediately shall notify the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control of permit actions.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 362, Section 2, eff May 3, 1994.