N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 96-e: Unlawful acts

§ 96-e. Unlawful acts. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,

partnership or corporation to operate any slaughterhouse, abattoir or

other place or establishment where animals or fowl are slaughtered or

where meat or meat food products are prepared or processed for food

unless such place or establishment is maintained and operated in a clean

and sanitary manner, and conducted in accordance with the provisions of

this article and with the regulations of the commissioner.

2. It shall be unlawful to expose any meat, fowl or meat food product

in any slaughterhouse, abattoir or other place or establishment to

insects, live animals or injurious contamination; or to slaughter,

possess or sell unwholesome meat. Meat shall be unwholesome within the

meaning of this article if it be from a diseased animal or one which

shall have died other than by slaughter, or if such meat shall be

contaminated with filth or shall have been slaughtered, processed or

handled under insanitary conditions.

3. It shall be unlawful to feed hogs uncooked offal from a

slaughterhouse.

4. It shall be unlawful for any slaughterhouse, abattoir or other

place or establishment, or for any person, to slaughter or butcher

domesticated dog (canis familiaris) or domesticated cat (felis catus or

domesticus) to create food, meat or meat products for human or animal

consumption. A violation of this subdivision shall subject the offender

to a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars for an individual and

up to five thousand dollars for a corporation for the first violation.

Any subsequent violation shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to

twenty-five thousand dollars. Any civil penalties collected pursuant to

this subdivision shall be paid to the animal population control fund

established by section ninety-seven-xx of the state finance law.