Kentucky Statutes 150.722 – Authorized methods of disposal of cervid carcass material and waste by cervid meat processors, butchers or meat processors, and licensed taxidermists
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(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Butcher or meat processor” means any person or business entity that:
1. Butchers or makes meat products from meat that is amenable under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. secs. 601 et seq., and is not exempt from mandatory inspection by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service; and
2. Has been inspected and passed under voluntary Food Safety and
Inspection Service inspection; and
(b) “Cervid meat processor” means any person or business entity that:
1. Butchers or makes meat products from meat that is not amenable under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. secs. 601 et seq., and is exempt from mandatory inspection by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service;
2. Has not been inspected and passed under voluntary Food Safety and
Inspection Service inspection; and
3. Is paid to butcher or make meat products for human consumption from ten (10) or more animals that are members of the animal family Cervidae per calendar year.
(2) Cervid meat processors, butchers or meat processors, and licensed taxidermists shall dispose of any unused cervid carcass material or cervid waste produced as a result of butchering, making meat products, or preparing, stuffing, or mounting wildlife by:
(a) Burying the carcass and all of its parts and products in the earth at a point which is never covered with the overflow of ponds or streams and which is not less than one hundred (100) feet distant from any watercourse, sinkhole, well, spring, public highway, residence, or stable. The carcass shall be placed in an opening in the earth at least four (4) feet deep, the abdominal and thoracic cavities opened wide their entire length, and the entire carcass covered with two (2) inches of quicklime and at least three (3) feet of earth;
(b) Removal of the carcass by a duly licensed rendering establishment; or
(c) Deposition of the carcass in a contained landfill approved pursuant to KRS Chapter 224.
Effective: July 15, 2020
History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2020. — Created
2018 Ky. Acts ch. 28, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2018.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2020). Under the authority of KRS
7.136(1), the Reviser of Statutes has altered the format of subsection (1) of this statute during codification to place the terms in alphabetical order. The words in the text were not changed.
(a) “Butcher or meat processor” means any person or business entity that:
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 150.722
- Animal: includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Cervid: means a hoofed mammal from the family Cervidae, including but not limited to white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, moose, and caribou. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Commission: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
- Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Wildlife: means any normally undomesticated animal, alive or dead, including without limitations any wild mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, or other terrestrial or aquatic life, whether or not possessed in controlled environment, bred, hatched, or born in captivity and including any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof, protected or unprotected by this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
1. Butchers or makes meat products from meat that is amenable under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. secs. 601 et seq., and is not exempt from mandatory inspection by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service; and
2. Has been inspected and passed under voluntary Food Safety and
Inspection Service inspection; and
(b) “Cervid meat processor” means any person or business entity that:
1. Butchers or makes meat products from meat that is not amenable under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. secs. 601 et seq., and is exempt from mandatory inspection by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service;
2. Has not been inspected and passed under voluntary Food Safety and
Inspection Service inspection; and
3. Is paid to butcher or make meat products for human consumption from ten (10) or more animals that are members of the animal family Cervidae per calendar year.
(2) Cervid meat processors, butchers or meat processors, and licensed taxidermists shall dispose of any unused cervid carcass material or cervid waste produced as a result of butchering, making meat products, or preparing, stuffing, or mounting wildlife by:
(a) Burying the carcass and all of its parts and products in the earth at a point which is never covered with the overflow of ponds or streams and which is not less than one hundred (100) feet distant from any watercourse, sinkhole, well, spring, public highway, residence, or stable. The carcass shall be placed in an opening in the earth at least four (4) feet deep, the abdominal and thoracic cavities opened wide their entire length, and the entire carcass covered with two (2) inches of quicklime and at least three (3) feet of earth;
(b) Removal of the carcass by a duly licensed rendering establishment; or
(c) Deposition of the carcass in a contained landfill approved pursuant to KRS Chapter 224.
Effective: July 15, 2020
History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2020. — Created
2018 Ky. Acts ch. 28, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2018.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2020). Under the authority of KRS
7.136(1), the Reviser of Statutes has altered the format of subsection (1) of this statute during codification to place the terms in alphabetical order. The words in the text were not changed.