§161-36 Records; subject to examination. (a) For the enforcement of this chapter, the following classes of persons shall keep records, as the board by rule may require, that will fully and correctly disclose all transactions; and all persons subject to these requirements shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by an authorized representative of the board, afford that representative or any authorized representative of the United States Secretary of Agriculture access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy all those records, and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment of the fair market value therefor:

(1) Any person that is engaged, in or for intrastate commerce, in the business of slaughtering any poultry or processing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any poultry capable of use as human or animal food, including any person operating under the exemptions in section 161-29(a)(2) or (3);

(2) Any person that is engaged in the business of buying or selling, as poultry brokers, wholesalers, or otherwise, or transporting in intrastate commerce, or storing in or for intrastate commerce, any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any poultry;

(3) Any person that is engaged in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as renderers, or engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting, in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry, or parts of the carcasses of any such poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter.

(b) Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for the period specified by rule. [L 1969, c 212, §23; am L 1993, c 92, §7]