The Legislature finds and declares that mobile slaughter operators who perform the service of slaughtering cattle for the owner of the cattle on the owner’s premises are not licensed slaughterers pursuant to this chapter. However, on and after January 15, 1998, a mobile slaughter operator shall be registered with the bureau as an unlicensed mobile slaughterer pursuant to Section 22037 and is subject to Section 22008.

(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 651, Sec. 1.6. Effective January 1, 1998.)