1151.E AAS 4/14/99 S2384.2
EHB 1151 - S COMM AMD
By Committee on Agriculture & Rural Economic Development
ADOPTED 4/14/99
On page 21, after line 36, insert the following:
"Sec. 28. RCW 16.49.435 and 1987 c 77 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
For the purposes of this chapter:
(1) "Department" means the department of agriculture of the state of Washington.
(2) "Director" means the director of the department or the director's designee.
(3) "Custom farm slaughterer" means any person licensed under this chapter who may under such license engage in the business of slaughtering meat food animals only for the consumption of the owner thereof through the use of an approved mobile unit under such conditions as may be prescribed by the director.
(4) "Custom slaughtering establishment" means the facility operated by any person licensed under this chapter who may under such license engage in the business of slaughtering meat food animals only for the consumption of the owner thereof at a fixed location under such conditions as may be prescribed by the director.
(5) "Custom meat facility" means the facility operated by any person licensed under this chapter who may under such license engage in the business of preparing uninspected meat for the sole consumption of the owner of the uninspected meat being prepared. Operators of custom meat facilities may also prepare inspected meat for household users only under such conditions as may be prescribed by the director and may sell such prepared inspected meat to household users only. Operators of custom meat facilities may also sell prepackaged inspected meat to any person, provided the prepackaged inspected meat is not prepared in any manner by the operator and the operator does not open or alter the original package that the inspected meat was placed in.
(6)
"Inspected meat" means the carcasses or parts thereof of meat food
animals which have been slaughtered and inspected at establishments subject to
inspection under ((chapter 16.49A RCW or)) a federal meat inspection
act.
(7) "Uninspected meat" means the carcasses or parts thereof of meat food animals which have been slaughtered by the owner thereof, or which have been slaughtered by a custom farm slaughterer.
(8) "Household user" means the ultimate consumer, the members of the consumer's household, and his or her nonpaying guests and employees.
(9) "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership, exchange, association, trustee, receiver, corporation, and any member, officer, or employee thereof or assignee for the benefit of creditors.
(10) "Meat food animal" means cattle, swine, sheep, or goats.
(11) "Official establishment" means an establishment operated for the purpose of slaughtering meat food animals for sale or use as human food in compliance with the federal meat inspection act (21 U.S.C. Sec. 71 et seq.).
(12) "Prepared" means canned, salted, rendered, boned, cut up or otherwise manufactured, or processed.
Sec. 29. RCW 16.49.670 and 1987 c 77 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:
The provisions of this chapter relating to custom meat facilities
((and RCW 16.49A.370)) shall in no way supersede or restrict the
authority of any county or any city to adopt ordinances which are more
restrictive for the handling of meat than those provided for herein.
Sec. 30. RCW 16.67.030 and 1969 c 133 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
For the purpose of this chapter:
(1) "Commission" means the Washington state beef commission.
(2) "Director" means the director of agriculture of the state of Washington or his duly appointed representative.
(3) "Ex officio members" means those advisory members of the commission who do not have a vote.
(4) "Department" means the department of agriculture of the state of Washington.
(5) "Person" includes any individual, firm, corporation, trust, association, partnership, society, or any other organization of individuals.
(6) "Beef producer" means any person who raises, breeds, grows, or purchases cattle or calves for beef production.
(7) "Dairy (beef) producer" means any person who raises, breeds, grows, or purchases cattle for dairy production and who is actively engaged in the production of fluid milk.
(8) "Feeder" means any person actively engaged in the business of feeding cattle and usually operating a feed lot.
(9) "Producer" means any person actively engaged in the cattle industry including beef producers and dairy (beef) producers.
(10) "Washington cattle" shall mean all cattle owned or controlled by affected producers and located in the state of Washington.
(11)
"Meat packer" means any person ((licensed to operate)) operating
a slaughtering establishment ((under the provisions of chapter 16.49A RCW as
enacted or hereafter amended)) subject to inspection under a federal
meat inspection act.
(12) "Livestock salesyard operator" means any person licensed to operate a cattle auction market or salesyard under the provisions of chapter 16.65 RCW as enacted or hereafter amended.
Sec. 31. RCW 35A.69.010 and 1994 c 143 s 512 are each amended to read as follows:
Every code city shall have the powers, perform the functions and
duties and enforce the regulations prescribed by general laws relating to food
and drugs for any class of city as provided by Title 69 RCW; ((relating to
inspection of foods, meat, dairies, and milk as provided by chapter 16.49A RCW;))
relating to water pollution control as provided by chapter 90.48 RCW; and
relating to food fish and shellfish as provided by Title 75 RCW.
Sec. 32. RCW 69.04.930 and 1988 c 254 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:
It
shall be unlawful for any person to sell at retail or display for sale at
retail any food fish or shellfish as defined in RCW 75.08.011, any meat ((capable
of use as human food as defined in RCW 16.49A.150 as now or hereafter amended)),
or any meat food product ((as defined in RCW 16.49A.130 as now or hereafter
amended)) which has been frozen at any time, without having the package or
container in which the same is sold bear a label clearly discernible to a
customer that such product has been frozen and whether or not the same has
since been thawed. No such food fish or shellfish, meat or meat food product
shall be sold unless in such a package or container bearing said label:
PROVIDED, That this section shall not include any of the aforementioned food or
food products that have been frozen prior to being smoked, cured, cooked or
subjected to the heat of commercial sterilization."
Renumber the remaining section consecutively and correct any internal references accordingly.
EHB 1151 - S COMM AMD
By Committee on Agriculture & Rural Economic Development
ADOPTED 4/14/99
On page 1, line 5 of the title, after "15.36.551," strike "and 15.36.561" and insert "15.36.561, 16.49.435, 16.49.670, 16.67.030, 35A.69.010, and 69.04.930"
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