ENROLLED

H. B. 2658

                        (By Delegates A. Evans, Hamilton, Romine, L. Phillips, Ambler,

                                    Eldridge, Guthrie, Rowan, Canterbury and Lynch)

                        [By Request of the Department of Agriculture]

                        [Passed March 12, 2015; in effect ninety days from passage.]

AN ACT to amend and reenact §19-29-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the inspection and slaughter of nontraditional agriculture; and removing the requirement that all nontraditional agriculture needing to be slaughtered be slaughtered in an inspected slaughterhouse.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

            That §19-29-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 29. PRODUCTION OF NONTRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS.

§19-29-4. Inspection of animals, meat and meat products.

            The commissioner shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, to include inspection of the meat from nontraditional agriculture intended for sale in commercial outlets. Except for rabbits and game birds, nontraditional agriculture shall be slaughtered in an inspected meat processing facility.