GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 483

Short Title:  Inspection of Bison Meat/AB.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Speed, Albertson, Soles, Parnell, East, Martin of Pitt, Simpson, and Hartsell.

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Referred to:  Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources

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March 27, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE INSPECTION OF BISON MEAT THAT IS TO BE USED AS FOOD.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 106-549.15(13) reads as rewritten:
"(13)	'Meat broker' means any person, firm, corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, or meat food products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, bison, horses, mules, or other equines on commission, or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for his own account or as an employee of another person, firm, or corporation."
Sec.  2.  G.S. 106-549.15(14) reads as rewritten:
"(14)	'Meat food product' means any product capable of use as human food that is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, bison, or fallow deer, excepting products that contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and that are exempted from definition as a meat food product by the Board under such conditions as it may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcasses contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as meat food products.  This term as applied to food products of equines shall have a meaning comparable to that provided in this subdivision with respect to cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and bison."
Sec. 3.  The Commissioner of Agriculture may establish a fee at an hourly rate to be paid by an establishment preparing bison as a meat food product, as defined in G.S. 106-549.15, as amended by Section 2 of this act.  The fee shall be credited to the Department of Agriculture as a departmental receipt and shall be applied to the cost of inspecting bison to be used for food.
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.