Arizona Laws 3-2096. Disciplinary actions
A. The associate director may suspend or revoke any license, permit, establishment number or meat inspection service granted under this chapter for any of the following reasons:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 3-2096
- Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Associate director: means the associate director of the division. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
- Establishment: means a mobile or stationary building, plant, vehicle or structure where meat or meat food products are slaughtered or processed or offered for sale. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Inspector: includes chief veterinary meat inspector, veterinary meat inspector, lay meat inspector, livestock officer or any other employee appointed by the associate director, with the approval of the director, to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the livestock laws and rules adopted thereunder. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
- Meat: means the edible part of the muscle of cattle, sheep, swine, goats or equines which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart or in the esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat, and the portions of bone, skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of dressing. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
1. Violation of this chapter.
2. Violation of any rule issued pursuant to this chapter, including any existing federal meat inspection regulation incorporated by reference and adopted by the director.
3. Violation of Title 36, Chapter 8, Article 1 or any provision of Title 44, Chapter 10, Article 7.
4. Conviction of any offense under this chapter or Title 36, Chapter 8, Article 1 or any offense involving fraud or misrepresentation.
B. Prior to taking any action under subsection A, the associate director shall provide a written notice stating the nature of the charge or charges against the holder of a license, permit, establishment number or meat inspection service granted under this chapter. The notice shall be served either personally or by mailing a copy thereof, certified mail, to the address last known to the department or to the chief veterinary meat inspector. The notice shall also inform the person of the right to a hearing on the action pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 6, Article 10.
C. When the administrative law judge determines that a person who has a license, permit, establishment number or meat inspection service is subject to suspension or revocation for any reasons provided, the administrative law judge may, instead of suspending or revoking the license, permit, establishment number or meat inspection service, impose a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars for each violation as specified in subsection A. The administrative law judge may also, in combination with or in lieu of the civil penalty, impose probation with the period and conditions deemed necessary to protect the public health and safety and to allow the person on whom the probation is imposed to rectify the conditions found by the department.