Title 21
Food and Drugs

Chapter 11
Meats

R.I. Gen. Laws § 21-11-7

§ 21-11-7. Processing for private use.

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to slaughtering of animals, or the canning, curing, smoking, packing, or rendering of the carcass of any animal or part of the carcass, where the animal is slaughtered by the owner of the animal and where the meat, meat product, or meat food product obtained from the animal is used for the private use of the owner of the animal slaughtered, or of the owner’s immediate family.

History of Section.
G.L. 1938, ch. 264, § 5; P.L. 1943, ch. 1306, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 21-11-7; P.L. 1972, ch. 279, § 1.