MCL - Act 239 of 1982


BODIES OF DEAD ANIMALS

Act 239 of 1982

AN ACT to license and regulate animal food manufacturing plants, transfer stations, dead animal dealers, rendering plants, and certain vehicles; to regulate the disposal of dead animals and to provide for poultry and livestock composting; to prescribe powers and duties of certain state departments; to impose fees; to provide for remedies and to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.


History: 1982, Act 239, Eff. Oct. 1, 1982 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 228, Eff. Feb. 4, 1994 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 299, Imd. Eff. July 28, 1998




The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Document Type Description
Section 287.651 Section Meanings of words and phrases.
Section 287.653 Section Definitions; A to F.
Section 287.654 Section Definitions; G to T.
Section 287.657 Section Establishment of business without license prohibited; exemptions; transportation of officially quarantined dead animals on public highway; permit; rules.
Section 287.659 Section License; exemptions.
Section 287.661 Section Application for license; form; filing; fee; renewal; application of dead animal dealer license; specification of destination; annual license application fee; issuance or denial of license; inspection; standards; license fee not returnable.
Section 287.663 Section License denial; notice; hearing; request for second inspection.
Section 287.665 Section Rules.
Section 287.667 Section Repealed. 1993, Act 228, Eff. Feb. 4, 1994.
Section 287.669 Section Inspection of facility, vehicle, and composting; suspension or revocation of license; hearings; alternative methods authorized by director; operation under common ownership or management; report of increase in mortality.
Section 287.671 Section Dead animals; transfer from 1 vehicle to another; disposal; exceptions.
Section 287.673 Section Dead animals transported to licensed facility for production into animal or pet food; decharacterizing or denaturing; container label; preventing diversion of dead animals for use as human food; advertising.
Section 287.675 Section Repealed. 1993, Act 228, Eff. Feb. 4, 1994.
Section 287.677 Section Rules.
Section 287.678 Section Request for administrative hearing by aggrieved person; administrative fine or warning.
Section 287.679 Section Violation of act as misdemeanor or felony; penalties; civil actions.
Section 287.681 Section Repeal of MCL 287.231 to 287.241.
Section 287.683 Section Effective date.