(a) For the purpose of enforcing this part, persons engaged in this state in the business of processing for intrastate commerce or transporting, shipping or receiving in intrastate commerce livestock or poultry slaughtered for human consumption, or meat, meat food products or poultry products, or holding the articles so received, shall maintain records the commissioner, by regulation, may require, showing, to the extent that they are concerned with the receipt, delivery, sale, movement or disposition of such articles, and shall, upon the request of a duly authorized representative of the commissioner, permit the duly authorized representative at reasonable times to have access to and to copy all the records.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 53-7-208

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture, or any person authorized to act in the commissioner's stead. See Tennessee Code 53-7-202
  • Intrastate commerce: means commerce within this state. See Tennessee Code 53-7-202
  • Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, goats or rabbits. See Tennessee Code 53-7-202
  • Meat: means the edible part of the muscle of cattle, deer, sheep, swine or goats that is skeletal or that 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 that normally accompany the muscle tissue and that are not separated from it in the process of dressing. See Tennessee Code 53-7-202
  • Poultry: means any live or slaughtered domesticated bird. See Tennessee Code 53-7-202
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for a period of two (2) years after the transaction that is the subject of the record has taken place.
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