SB0739ham001 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Dan Reitz

Filed: 5/28/2004

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 739

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 739 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Meat and Poultry Inspection Act is amended by changing Section 5.2 as follows:

(225 ILCS 650/5.2)

Sec. 5.2. Type II licenses.

(a) Type II establishments licensed under this Act for custom slaughtering and custom processing shall:

(1) Be permitted to receive, for processing, meat products and poultry products from animals and poultry slaughtered by the owner or for the owner for his or her own personal use or for use by his or her household.

(2) Be permitted to receive live animals and poultry presented by the owner to be slaughtered and processed for the owner's own personal use or for use by his or her household.

(3) Be permitted to receive, for processing, inspected meat products and inspected poultry products for the owner's own personal use or for use by his or her household.

(4) Stamp the words "NOT INSPECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE--NOT FOR SALE" in letters at least 1/2 3/8 inches in height on all carcasses of animals and immediate poultry product containers for poultry slaughtered in such establishment and on all meat products and immediate poultry product containers for poultry products processed in that establishment.

(5) Conspicuously display a license issued by the Department and bearing the words "NO SALES PERMITTED".

(6) Keep a record of the name and address of the owner of each carcass or portion thereof received in such licensed establishment, the date received, and the dressed weight. Such records shall be maintained for at least one year and shall be available, during reasonable hours, for inspection by Department personnel.

(b) No custom slaughterer or custom processor shall engage in the business of buying or selling any poultry or meat products capable of use as human food, or slaughter of any animals or poultry intended for sale.

(Source: P.A. 91-170, eff. 1-1-00.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".