566.027 - Persons slaughtering cattle without formal inspection system required to retain hides for 30 days; exhibition of hides or certificate of release.
566.027 Persons slaughtering cattle without formal inspection system required to retain hides for 30 days; exhibition of hides or certificate of release. Any person who slaughters any cattle, unless the animal was slaughtered at a slaughtering establishment under a United States Government, state, county or municipal inspection system which provides for adequate stamping for identification of all carcasses or parts of carcasses before release, shall retain in his or her possession the hide or hides removed from the cattle with the ears and brands attached without disfiguration or alteration, for a period of 30 days, unless the hide or hides are released pursuant to a certificate of release issued by an inspector of the Department. The person shall, upon demand within that period by any inspector of the Department or any game warden or peace officer of this state, exhibit the hide or hides of any cattle so slaughtered or the certificate of release.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 316; A 1993, 1743; 1999, 3681)