P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 764

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§ 764. Private slaughterhouses—Inspection in rural zones

In the case of slaughterhouses now or hereafter established in the rural zone, the Secretary of Health, in the lack of inspectors of health to make the customary inspection, may delegate a practicing rural teacher or any other official of the Government whose duties require his presence in the neighborhood, or a commission of three residents of the same barrio, to make the ante mortem inspection of cattle to be slaughtered in said slaughterhouse and the post mortem inspection of the meat of said cattle. The Secretary of Health shall furnish instructions to these persons in order that they may best comply with their duties; Provided, That in no case shall meat be kept unless adequate means are provided for its preservation.

History —May 12, 1931, J.R. No. 66, p. 1042, § 4, eff. 90 days after May 12, 1931.