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This law was first created in 1970. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 290 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1970 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2008, chapter 860<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":197655,"object_type":"law","relational_id":62105,"identifier":"3.2-5409","token":"3.2\/IV\/54\/2\/3.2-5409","url":"\/3.2-5409\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/3.2-5409\/","token":"3.2\/IV\/54\/2\/3.2-5409","dublin_core":{"Title":"Prohibition against intrastate distribution of equine, livestock and poultry products","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 3.2-5409","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any carcasses of horses, mules, or other equines or parts of such carcasses, or the meat or meat food products<\/span> thereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled or otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the Board<\/span> to show the kinds of animals from which they were derived. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> No person shall buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any livestock products<\/span> or poultry products<\/span> that are not intended for use as human food unless they are denatured or otherwise identified as required by the regulations of the Board<\/span> or are naturally inedible by humans. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce, dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in such commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry or the products of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless such transaction or transportation, is made in accordance with such regulations as the Board<\/span> may prescribe to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPROHIBITION AGAINST INTRASTATE DISTRIBUTION OF EQUINE, LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY\nPRODUCTS (\u00a7 3.2-5409)\n\nA. No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive\nfor transportation, in intrastate commerce, any carcasses of horses, mules, or\nother equines or parts of such carcasses, or the meat or meat food products\nthereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled or\notherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the Board to show\nthe kinds of animals from which they were derived.\n\nB. No person shall buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation, or\nreceive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any livestock products or\npoultry products that are not intended for use as human food unless they are\ndenatured or otherwise identified as required by the regulations of the Board or\nare naturally inedible by humans.\n\nC. No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in\nintrastate commerce, dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of\nthe carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy,\nsell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for\ntransportation, in such commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased\nlivestock or poultry or the products of any such animals that died otherwise\nthan by slaughter, unless such transaction or transportation, is made in\naccordance with such regulations as the Board may prescribe to assure that such\nanimals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from\nbeing used for human food purposes.\n\nHISTORY: 1970, c. 290, \u00a7 3.1-884.24; 2008, c. 860.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}