NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1197

HOUSE BILL 1125

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE DISPOSAL OF DEAD AND DISEASED POULTRY AT COMMERCIAL POULTRY FARMS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Every person, firm or corporation engaged in growing poultry, turkeys or other domestic fowl or products thereof for commercial purpose shall provide and maintain a disposal pit or incinerator of a size and design, approved by the Department of Agriculture, wherein all dead diseased poultry carcasses shall be disposed of in a manner to prevent the spread of disease; provided, that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to growers of poultry, turkeys or other domestic fowl with flocks of two hundred (200) or less.

Sec. 2.  Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective January 1, 1962.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of June, 1961.