HRS §159-39
Rules for buying and selling sick or dead animals
This section says that people who buy, sell, or transport dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals in Hawaii must follow board rules. These rules are meant to keep such animals from being used as human food. If you are in this business, you must follow those rules.
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The statute, as written — Dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals
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 commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless the transaction or transportation is made in accordance with the rules that the board may adopt to assure that the animals, or the parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.
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