Whenever any poultry product, or any product exempted from the definition of a poultry product, or any dead, dying, disabled or diseased poultry is found by any authorized representatives of the department 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, in violation of this or any other state or federal law or that it has been or is intended to be distributed in violation of any such provisions, it may be detained by such representative for a period of not to exceed twenty days, pending action under section 3-2166 or notification of any federal, state or other governmental authority having jurisdiction over such article or poultry, and shall not be moved by any person from the place at which it is located when so detained until released by such representative. All official marks may be required by such representative to be removed from such article or poultry before it is released unless it appears to the satisfaction of the division that the article or poultry is eligible to retain such marks.

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Terms Used In Arizona Laws 3-2165

  • Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
  • Division: means the animal services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
  • Intrastate commerce: means commerce within this state. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other business unit. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
  • Poultry: means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead, and includes chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas, ratites and squabs. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
  • Poultry product: means any poultry carcass, or part thereof, or any product which is made wholly or in part from any poultry carcass or part thereof, excepting products which contain poultry ingredients only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the poultry food industry, and which are exempted by the director from definition as a poultry product under such conditions as the director may prescribe to assure that the poultry ingredients in such products are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as poultry products. See Arizona Laws 3-2151