1. Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to or affect any of the following persons, matters, or vocations, to wit:
- (1) To any person hauling a dead animal to a slaughtering establishment where such animals will be slaughtered for personal consumption;
- (2) To any person transporting or storing finished carcasses or finished meat products or the trimmings therefrom;
- (3) To any person transporting, disposing of, or selling the hides or skins of animals, or tanning such hides or skins for himself or other persons;
- (4) To any governmental agency, responding to an emergency situation, or collecting, transporting, or disposing of the bodies of any dead animals in any manner approved by the state veterinarian;
- (5) To any livestock producer transporting his dead livestock to a rendering plant or substation, or to a diagnostic facility and/or to an on-farm disposal site;
- (6) To any person lawfully operating a pet cemetery;
- (7) To any animal research facility that is regulated by the federal Animal Welfare Act;
- (8) Any person transporting, without specific hire or compensation for such transportation, a dead animal to a place of burial or disposal.
- 2. No provisions of any other laws or ordinances regulating any of the persons, matters or vocations aforesaid shall be affected or repealed by this chapter.
(L. 1941 p. 290 § 14493a, A.L. 1992 H.B. 878)