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HRS §161-38

Rules for selling or moving sick or dead poultry

This section says that people who buy, sell, or transport poultry in Hawaii cannot deal in dead, dying, disabled, or diseased birds, or parts of birds that died on their own, unless they follow rules the board makes. The rules are meant to keep such poultry out of human food.

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The statute, as written — Dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry

No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry, or any parts or carcasses of any poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation in intrastate commerce any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry or parts or carcasses of any poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless the transaction or transportation is made in accordance with rules that the board may adopt to assure that the poultry, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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