South Carolina Code 39-39-122. Maintenance of records and invoices; egg purchases and sales; facility inspections
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 39-39-122
- Consumer: means a person using eggs for food and includes restaurants, hotels, cafeterias, hospitals, state institutions, and other establishments serving food to be consumed or produced on the premises but does not include the armed forces or other federal agency or institution. See South Carolina Code 39-39-110
- Eggs: means the shell eggs of a domesticated chicken, turkey, duck, goose, or guinea hen. See South Carolina Code 39-39-110
- Person: means any individual, partnership, association, business trust, corporation, or organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not. See South Carolina Code 39-39-110
- Producer: means a person engaged in the business of producing and marketing eggs laid on his farm. See South Carolina Code 39-39-110
- Retailer: means a person, firm, or corporation selling or offering for sale eggs to consumers in this State. See South Carolina Code 39-39-110
- Wholesaler: means a person engaged in the business of buying or receiving eggs from producers or other persons on his own account and selling or transferring eggs to other wholesalers, processors, retailers, or other persons and consumers. See South Carolina Code 39-39-110
Wholesalers, distributors, and retailers shall maintain records and invoices of their egg purchases for a period of at least ninety days. These records and invoices must show the person or firm to whom the sale was made, the address of the person or firm, and the kind and quantity of eggs involved in the sale, except that this section does not require the filing of a copy of the invoice of a sale to a consumer. The commissioner or his authorized representative may enter, during regular business hours, the place of any producer, wholesaler, retailer, retail establishment, institution, institutional user, warehouse, cold storage house, or other storage places, trucks, or carriers where eggs are stored and inspected.