North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 7 - Agriculture Commissioner › Article 7-13 - Meat Inspection › Chapter 7-13-01 - General Information › Section 7-13-01-04 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
The terms used throughout this article have the same meaning
				  as in title 9, Code of Federal Regulations, parts 301 and 381, unless already
				  defined in North Dakota Century Code section
				  36-24-01, in which case the North
				  Dakota Century Code definitions shall govern. In addition, as used in this
				  chapter or in applying title 9, Code of Federal Regulations, parts 301 and
				  381:
1. "Administrator" as the term is used in title 9, Code of
				  Federal Regulations, means the North Dakota agriculture commissioner unless
				  made inappropriate by context.
2. "Commissioner" means the North Dakota agriculture
				  commissioner or the agriculture commissioner's authorized
				  representative.
3. "Department" means the North Dakota department of
				  agriculture.
4. "Federal Act" means the Federal Meat Inspection Act, as
				  amended [ Pub. L. 90-201; 21
				  U.S.C. 601 et seq.] and the Poultry Products
				  Inspection Act, as amended [
				  Pub. L.
				  106-170;
				  21 U.S.C.
				  451 et seq.].
5. "Food safety inspection service" or "FSIS" as used in
				  title 9, Code of Federal Regulations, means the North Dakota agriculture
				  commissioner unless made inappropriate by context.
6. "Official establishment" means a plant, facility,
				  operation, or premises where animals are slaughtered for human consumption, or
				  a plant or premises where meat or meat food products are processed, but does
				  not include:
a. Establishments subject to federal inspection.
b. Premises of a person who is the owner of the animals to be
				  slaughtered or of carcasses to be processed, and the resulting product is for
				  exclusive use by that person, members of that person's household, or that
				  person's nonpaying guests and employees.
7. "Overtime" means any time when meat inspection personnel
				  are requested to work in an establishment, as follows:
a. Saturday or Sunday.
b. New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day,
				  Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans' Day,
				  Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. If any such holiday falls on Saturday or
				  Sunday, the preceding Friday or succeeding Monday, respectively, shall be a
				  holiday.
c. The day before Christmas Day and the day before New Year's
				  Day.
d. Before 6 a.m. or after 6 p.m.
e. In excess of forty hours of "straight time" in any
				  calendar week.
f. At any time other than a regularly scheduled slaughter
				  period.
g. When an owner of an animal requests slaughter inspection
				  from an official establishment at a nonregularly scheduled time.
"Overtime" does not include time spent traveling to or from
				  an establishment.
8. "Secretary" or "secretary of agriculture" as used in title
				  9, Code of Federal Regulations, means the North Dakota agriculture commissioner
				  unless made inappropriate by context.
General Authority: NDCC
					 36-24-24
Law Implemented: NDCC
					 36-24-24