Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4224 – Authority to detain meats
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4224
- commissioner: means the "Commissioner, Louisiana Department of Agriculture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- firm: means any partnership, association, or other unincorporated business organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
- intrastate commerce: means commerce within the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
- 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.
- meat food product: means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, poultry or goats, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempted from definition as a meat food product by the commissioner under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcasses contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as meat food products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
- Person: means an individual or any legal or commercial entity, including a corporation, business trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or joint venture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
Whenever carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, meat food product or poultry product of cattle, sheep, poultry, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines, or any product exempted from the definition of meat food product or poultry product, or any dead, dying, disabled or diseased animal or fowl described above is found by any authorized representative of the commissioner 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 the provisions of this Chapter or of the Federal Meat Inspection Act* or the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act,** or that such article or animal has been or is intended to be, distributed in violation of any such provisions, it may be detained by such representative for a period not to exceed twenty days, pending action under La. Rev. Stat. 3:4225 or notification of any federal authorities having jurisdiction over such article or animal, and shall be moved by any person, entity, firm, or corporation 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 animal before it is released unless it appears to the satisfaction of the commissioner that the article or animal is eligible to retain such marks.
Acts 1968, No. 376, §22. Amended by Acts 1970, No. 615, §1; Acts 1985, No. 73, §1; Acts 2009, No. 24, §1, eff. June 12, 2009.
*21 U.S.C.A. §71 et seq. (Transferred; see now, 21 U.S.C.A. §601 et seq.).
**21 U.S.C.A. §301 et seq.