New Hampshire § 427-21 - Section 427:21 Dead or Diseased Animals.
Full text of New Hampshire New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated § 427-21 — Section 427:21 Dead or Diseased Animals., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 427-21. Section 427:21 Dead or Diseased Animals.
No person, firm, or corporation 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 such commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals capable of use as human food, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless such transaction or transportation is made in accordance with such rules as the commissioner may adopt under RSA 541-A to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.
Source: official New Hampshire text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 427-21 ("Section 427:21 Dead or Diseased Animals.") is part of the New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated, the codified statutory law of New Hampshire. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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