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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-880. Violations.

A person violating this article or regulations of the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission promulgated under it is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-478; 1952 Code Section 6-478; 1949 (46) 412; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 18, eff May 3, 1994.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1210. Definitions.

Except where the context otherwise requires, for the purposes of this article the following terms shall be construed, respectively, to mean:
(a) Person. A natural person, firm or corporation.
(b) Poultry. Live fowl, including chickens, turkeys, waterfowl and game birds which are propagated and maintained under the control of any person for any purpose.
(c) Hatching eggs. Eggs for use in a hatchery to produce young poultry or embryonated eggs.
(d) Hatchery. Incubators, hatchers and auxiliary equipment on one premise operated and controlled by any person for the hatching of poultry.
(e) Flock. All of the poultry on one premise, except that, at the discretion of the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission, any group of poultry which is segregated from other poultry and has been so segregated for a period of at least twenty-one days may be considered as a separate flock.
(f) Pullorum disease or pullorum. A disease of poultry caused by salmonella pullorum.
(g) Fowl typhoid or hyphoid. A disease of poultry caused by salmonella gallinarum.
HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 643 Section 1; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 31, eff May 3, 1994.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1220. Authority and functions of commission.

Full authority for the control, suppression, and eradication of pullorum and typhoid in poultry in this State is vested in the commission. The commission shall administer the following:
(1) Poultry hatcheries and hatchery supply flocks within the State must qualify as United States Pullorum-Typhoid Clean or meet equivalent requirements for pullorum-typhoid control under official supervision.
(2) Shipments of poultry and eggs not destined for slaughter other than United States Pullorum-Typhoid Clean, or equivalent, into the State are prohibited.
(3) Whenever a veterinarian or other person performing poultry disease diagnostic services has knowledge or reason to suspect that pullorum or typhoid exists in a poultry flock or hatchery, within forty-eight hours, he shall give notice of the fact to the commission.
(4) Upon receipt of a report of pullorum or typhoid in poultry, the commission shall direct an immediate investigation by an authorized representative to determine the origin and avenue of transmission of the infection. Authorized representatives of the commission may enter a place or premise for inspections or investigations reasonably necessary for these determinations.
(5) Flocks deemed to be infected with pullorum or typhoid must be quarantined by the commission. Quarantined flocks or a portion of them must not be removed from the premise where the infection was detected except with the written permission of the commission.
(6) Poultry shown in public exhibitions in this State must have originated from United States Pullorum-Typhoid Clean, or equivalent, flocks or have had a negative pullorum-typhoid test within ninety days of the movement to the public exhibition.
HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 643 Section 2; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 19, eff May 3, 1994.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1230. Promulgation of regulations by commission; poultry advisory committee.

The State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission shall promulgate reasonable regulations consistent with this article. The commission must be advised by a poultry advisory committee consisting of five members as follows: one from the commercial hatching industry, one from the commercial egg industry, one from the commercial broiler industry, one from the commercial turkey industry, and one representing the exhibition poultry interest. The members must be nominated by the respective industry and appointed for terms of two years by the commission.
HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 643 Section 3; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 20, eff May 3, 1994.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1240. Penalties.

A person violating this article or regulations promulgated by its authority is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130. Each violation constitutes a separate offense.
HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 643 Section 4; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 21, eff May 3, 1994.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1310. Definitions.

As used in this article:
(1) "Equine infectious anemia" means a widely spread, virus-caused disease of the horse, commonly known as swamp fever, which is infectious in nature and spreads by improper use of hypodermic needles, other instruments, and insects. The disease may be acute, subacute, chronic, or inapparent.
(2) "Horse" means a member of the equine family over six months of age including horses, mules, asses, zebras, or other equidae.
(3) "State veterinarian" means the state veterinarian as defined by Section 47-13-20.
(4) "Accredited veterinarian" means a licensed veterinarian approved by the United States Department of Agriculture and the state veterinarian.
(5) "Reactor" means a horse that reacts positively to an approved serological test performed by an approved laboratory.
(6) "Date of test" means date blood sample is collected from the horse.
(7) "Exposed horse" means a horse which the state veterinarian or his authorized representative has reasonable grounds to believe has been exposed to equine infectious anemia.
(8) "Quarantine" means confinement of an exposed horse to an area not less than two hundred yards from another unaffected horse, with no horses being admitted or leaving the premises.
(9) "Isolation" means confinement of a reactor horse to an area not less than two hundred yards from another unaffected horse until a blood sample submitted from the reactor horse provides a negative Coggins test from a laboratory approved within the State or death.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 400 Section 1; 1990 Act No. 375, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990; 1993 Act No. 33, Section 1, eff April 22, 1993.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1315. State veterinarian and Livestock-Poultry Service to develop and institute programs for control of equine infectious anemia.

The state veterinarian and the Livestock-Poultry Health Service of Clemson University are vested with the authority to develop and institute programs to provide for the control of equine infectious anemia in this State and to adopt and provide for enforcement regulations necessary to carry out the program and the provisions of this article. This authority includes, but is not limited to, the power to make regulations requiring the testing of a horse, pony, mule, and ass for equine infectious anemia, in any change of ownership, before sale, exhibition, or assembly at public stables or other public places, and authority to require the owner, operator, or person in charge of shows, sales, public stables, and other public places to require proof of freedom from equine infectious anemia before an animal is permitted to remain on the premises.
HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 375, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990; 1993 Act No. 33, Section 2, eff April 22, 1993.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1330. Official tests.

The official test for equine infectious anemia is:
(1) the agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID) blood test or any other test approved by the United States Department of Agriculture accomplished by a laboratory approved by the United States Department of Agriculture on blood samples collected by accredited veterinarians. Only antigen produced by or standardized by the United States Department of Agriculture may be used in official testing of animals for equine infectious anemia by the AGID method;
(2) other tests as may be devised and approved by the United States Department of Agriculture and the state veterinarian.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 400 Section 3; 1990 Act No. 375, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1340. Reporting of tests.

All positive tests for equine infectious anemia must be reported to the state veterinarian including tests conducted in approved laboratories within the State and tests from veterinarians submitting blood samples for testing to laboratories outside this State.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 400 Section 4; 1990 Act No. 375, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1350. Unlawful for horse to enter State unless tested; rules and regulations.

It is unlawful to enter the State with a horse unless the horse has been tested for equine infectious anemia and is accompanied by an official Equine Infectious Anemia test chart showing that the horse reacted negatively to an official Equine Infectious Anemia test within twelve months before entry. The state veterinarian, with the advice of the commanding officer of the State Highway Patrol, shall promulgate regulations to provide for the enforcement of this section.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 400 Section 5; 1990 Act No. 375, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990; 1993 Act No. 33, Section 3, eff April 22, 1993; 2000 Act No. 290, Section 3, eff May 19, 2000.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1360. Quarantine of exposed horses.

(A) When a reactor horse is identified on a premises, the state veterinarian shall quarantine all horses on that premises. All exposed quarantined horses tested must be properly identified by a mane or tail tag or other type of identification authorized by the state veterinarian. The reactor may be isolated not less than two hundred yards from other unaffected equines with the knowledge of the testing accredited veterinarian and state veterinarian and only may be moved with the permission of the state veterinarian. A sign must be displayed prominently at the location of the quarantined and isolated premises of the exposed and reactor horses indicating that the premises are quarantined for exposed horses or isolated for reactor horses at the expense of the horse owner.
(B) Before a quarantine for equine infectious anemia may be lifted by the state veterinarian, all exposed animals must be tested negative no sooner than forty-five days after the reactor has been removed from the herd.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 400 Section 6; 1990 Act No. 375, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1365. Disposition of animal after second confirmatory test.

After a second confirmatory test of the reactor equine, the animal must be either:
(1) euthanized;
(2) identified and sold to slaughter or research, or
(3) permanently isolated not less than two hundred yards from other unaffected horses. If the owner of the reactor equine chooses to have the animal "permanently isolated not less than two hundred yards from other unaffected horses", the reactor must be permanently identified with a visible freeze brand (or other visible brand at the discretion of the administering accredited veterinarian) on the hip or neck of the reactor horse in a manner as specified by regulation promulgated under this chapter.
HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 375, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1370. Proof of tests required for public assembly of horses.

(A) All horses must be accompanied by written proof of an approved negative test for equine infectious anemia when entering any public assembly of horses. These public assemblies include, but are not limited to, shows, fairs, organized trail rides, rodeos and other exhibitions, as well as organized sales. Animals moving directly to a slaughter plant or assembly point for slaughter which has been specifically approved by the state veterinarian are not subject to the negative test requirement. The owner, operator, or person in charge of these shows, fairs, organized trail rides, rodeos and other exhibitions, organized sales, and other public places where horses are assembled shall require that each animal be accompanied by an official certificate showing that it has been negative to an approved test for equine infectious anemia within the last twelve months.
(B) Horses which are permanently maintained at a public stable or other public facility must be tested for equine infectious anemia each twelve months.
(C) The Coggins Test or other test for equine infectious anemia, whether administered within or without this State, is required to be administered only once each twelve months to a horse or an animal regardless of the number of times the animal is shown, sold, exhibited, or housed in a public stable or place in this State during that period. The state veterinarian and the Livestock-Poultry Health Service of Clemson University may require proof of annual test administrations as they consider necessary.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 400 Section 7; 1978 Act No. 610; 1990 Act No. 375, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990; 1993 Act No. 33, Section 4, eff April 22, 1993.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1380. Preventive measures for race tracks, horse shows, rodeos, horse owners, and veterinarians.

(A) Officials at race tracks, horse shows, and rodeos are requested to:
(1) see that sanitary and other protective measures prescribed by the state veterinarian are carried out;
(2) ensure that tattoo instruments and saliva collecting equipment are adequately sterilized before being used on any horse;
(3) enforce rules preventing the use of hypodermic syringes and needles on horses by other than accredited veterinarians;
(4) require provision for and operation of adequate isolation facilities.
(B) Horse owners and practicing veterinarians are requested to:
(1) report immediately any suspect horse to the state veterinarian;
(2) use disposable hypodermic needles and syringes (one needle - one horse);
(3) institute and carry out proper sanitary and preventive measures, including control of biting insects.
(C) Organizations representing particular breeds of horses should recommend to individual farms and owners that the test for equine infectious anemia be administered to all animals and preventive measures as set forth in this article be instituted.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 400 Section 8; 1990 Act No. 375, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1390. False certificates unlawful; penalties.

It is unlawful for any person to have in his possession a false certificate showing a negative Coggins test for any horse . A person convicted of having a false or forged certificate as set forth above must be punished in accordance with the provisions of Section 47-4-130.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 400 Section 9; 1990 Act No. 375, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990; 2000 Act No. 290, Section 4, eff May 19, 2000.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 13 - Diseases And Infections › Section 47-13-1400. Additional penalties for violation of article.

A person violating the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 400 Section 10; 1990 Act No. 375, Section 1, eff March 19, 1990; 2000 Act No. 290, Section 5, eff May 19, 2000.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 15 - Feeding Of Garbage To Swine › Section 47-15-10. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:
(a) "Garbage" means any animal wastes resulting from handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of foods, including animal carcasses, parts of animal carcasses, or contents of offal. Unpasteurized milk and unpasteurized milk products are animal waste.
(b) "Person" means the State, any municipality, political subdivision, institution, public or private corporation, individual, partnership, or any other entity.
(c) "Garbage dump" means a place or area where ordinary household garbage is disposed of from two or more families.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-521; 1970 (56) 2562; 2000 Act No. 290, Section 6, eff May 19, 2000.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 15 - Feeding Of Garbage To Swine › Section 47-15-20. Unlawful to feed garbage to swine.

It shall be unlawful for any person to feed garbage to swine.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-522; 1970 (56) 2562.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 19 - Poultry Products Inspection Law › Section 47-19-40. Inspection of live poultry, carcasses and poultry products; quarantine, segregation and reinspection; condemnation and destruction or reprocessing of adulterated carcasses.

(a) For the purpose of preventing the entry into or flow or movement in intrastate commerce of any poultry product which is capable of use as human food and is adulterated, the director shall, where and to the extent considered by him necessary, cause to be made by inspectors antemortem inspection of poultry in each official establishment engaged in processing poultry or poultry products solely for intrastate commerce.
(b) The director, whenever processing operations are being conducted, shall cause to be made by inspectors postmortem inspection of the carcass of each bird processed, and at any time such quarantine, segregation and reinspection as he deems necessary of poultry and poultry products capable of use as human food in each official establishment engaged in processing such poultry or poultry products solely for intrastate commerce.
(c) All poultry carcasses and parts thereof and other poultry products found to be adulterated 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 carcasses, parts and products, which may by reprocessing be made not adulterated, need not be so condemned and destroyed if so reprocessed under the supervision of an inspector and thereafter found to be not adulterated. If an appeal be taken from such determination, the carcasses, parts or products 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 carcasses, parts and products shall be destroyed for food purposes under the supervision of an inspector.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-634; 1969 (56) 425.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 19 - Poultry Products Inspection Law › Section 47-19-50. Sanitary conditions and practices required in slaughtering and processing establishments.

(a) Each official establishment slaughtering poultry or processing poultry products solely for intrastate commerce shall have such premises, facilities and equipment, and be operated in accordance with such sanitary practices, as are required by regulations promulgated by the board for the purpose of preventing the entry into or flow or movement in intrastate commerce of poultry products which are adulterated.
(b) The director shall refuse to render inspection to any establishment whose premises, facilities or equipment, or the operation thereof, fails to meet the requirements of this section.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-635; 1969 (56) 425.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 19 - Poultry Products Inspection Law › Section 47-19-80. Processing except in compliance with chapter is prohibited.

No establishment processing poultry or poultry products solely for intrastate commerce shall process any poultry or poultry product capable of use as human food except in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-638; 1969 (56) 425.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 19 - Poultry Products Inspection Law › Section 47-19-90. Poultry and poultry products not intended for use as human food need not be inspected.

Inspection shall not be provided under this article at any establishment for the slaughter of poultry or the processing of any carcasses or parts or products of poultry which are not intended for use as human food, but such articles shall, prior to their offer for sale or transportation in intrastate commerce, unless naturally inedible by humans, be denatured or otherwise identified as prescribed by regulations of the board to deter their use for human food. No person shall buy, sell, transport or offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any poultry carcasses or parts or products thereof which are not intended for use as human food unless they are denatured or otherwise identified as required by the regulations of the board or are naturally inedible by humans.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-639; 1969 (56) 425.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 19 - Poultry Products Inspection Law › Section 47-19-100. Persons required to keep records.

The following classes of persons shall, for such period of time as the board may by regulations prescribe, not to exceed two years unless otherwise directed by the director for good cause shown, keep such records as are properly necessary for the effective enforcement of this chapter in order to insure against adulterated or misbranded poultry products for the American consumer; and all persons subject to such requirements shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the director, afford such representative 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 therefor:
(1) Any person who engages in the business of slaughtering any poultry or processing, freezing, packaging or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any poultry, for intrastate commerce, for use as human food or animal food;
(2) Any person who engages in the business of buying or selling (as poultry products 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 who engages in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as a renderer, or engages 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 poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-640; 1969 (56) 425.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry › Chapter 19 - Poultry Products Inspection Law › Section 47-19-110. Registration with director required of persons engaged in poultry related businesses.

No person shall engage in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as a poultry products broker, renderer or animal food manufacturer, or engage in business in intrastate commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of any poultry intended for human food or other purposes, or engage in business as a public warehouseman storing any such articles in or for intrastate commerce, or engage 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 poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless, when required by regulations of the board, he has registered with the director his name and the address of each place of business at which, and all trade names under which, he conducts such business and unless such transaction or transportation is made in accordance with such regulations as the board may prescribe.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 6-641; 1969 (56) 425.