189A.3 - LICENSE -- FEE.
189A.3 LICENSE -- FEE.
1. No person shall operate an establishment other than a food
establishment as defined in section 137F.1 without first obtaining a
license from the department. The license fee for each establishment
per year or any part of a year shall be:
a. For all meat and poultry slaughtered or otherwise prepared
not exceeding twenty thousand pounds per year for sale, resale, or
custom, twenty-five dollars.
b. For all meat and poultry slaughtered or otherwise prepared
in excess of twenty thousand pounds per year for sale, resale, or
custom, fifty dollars.
2. The funds shall be deposited with the department. The license
year shall be from July 1 to June 30. Applications for licenses
shall be in writing on forms prescribed by the department.
3. It is the objective of this chapter to provide for meat and
poultry products inspection programs that will impose and enforce
requirements with respect to intrastate operations and commerce that
are at least equal to those imposed and enforced under the federal
Meat Inspection Act and the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act
with respect to operations and transactions in interstate commerce;
and the secretary is directed to administer this chapter so as to
accomplish this purpose. A director of the meat and poultry
inspection service shall be designated as the secretary's delegate to
be the appropriate state official to cooperate with the secretary of
agriculture of the United States in administration of this chapter.
Section History: Early Form
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 189A.3] Section History: Recent Form
98 Acts, ch 1162, § 26, 30; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §263
Referred to in §137F.1, 189A.5, 189A.7