                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROHIBITIONS IN GENERAL (§ 3.2-5407)

A. No person shall, with respect to any livestock or poultry or any livestock
products or poultry products:

   1. Slaughter any such animals or prepare any such articles that are capable of
   use as human food, at any establishment preparing such articles solely for
   intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this
   chapter;

   2. Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for
   transportation, in intrastate commerce, any such articles that: (i) are
   capable of use as human food, and (ii) are adulterated or misbranded at the
   time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale or transportation, or
   receipt for transportation; or any articles required to be inspected under
   this chapter unless they have been so inspected and passed; or

   3. Perform any act, with respect to any articles that are capable of use as
   human food, while they are being transported in intrastate commerce or held
   for sale after such transportation, that is intended to cause or has the
   effect of causing such articles to be adulterated or misbranded.

B. No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive
for transportation, in intrastate commerce, or from an official establishment,
any slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head, or viscera
have not been removed in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Board.

C. No person shall violate any provision of the regulations of the Board under
subdivisions 7, 8, 9, or 10 of &#xA7; 3.2-5404 or orders of the Commissioner
under subdivisions A 3 and A 4 of &#xA7; 3.2-5405.

HISTORY: 1970, c. 290, § 3.1-884.22; 2008, c. 860.