The Florida Senate

585.87  Duty to keep records.--

(1)  The following classes of persons shall keep such records as shall fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses. All persons subject to such requirements shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the department, afford such representative access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities and inventory, and records thereof, to copy all such records, and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment of the fair market value for such sample:

(a)  Any person that engages in the business, in or for intrastate commerce, of slaughtering any animal, or preparing or labeling any animal product.

(b)  Any person that engages in the business of buying or selling, as a meat broker, poultry broker, wholesaler, or otherwise, transporting in intrastate commerce, or storing, in or for intrastate commerce, any animal product.

(c)  Any person that engages in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as a renderer, or engages in the business of buying, selling, or transporting, in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animal, or parts of the carcass of any animal that died otherwise than by slaughter.

(2)  Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for such period of time as prescribed by rules of the department.

History.--s. 60, ch. 90-321.