South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 12 - Department of Agriculture
Article 12:68 - Disease control and meat inspection
Chapter 12:68:09 - Rendering establishments and pet food processing plants
Section 12:68:09:02 - Definitions

(1) "Carcass," the body or any part of the body of any animal that has died for any reason including those slaughtered for human or animal consumption. This definition does not include meat food products as defined in SDCL 39-5-6(16);

(2) "Collecting station," an establishment maintained and operated by a licensed rendering plant where carcasses for temporary keeping may be unloaded from trucks operating under the establishment license and reloaded only in trucks operating under the same establishment license;

(3) "License," a rendering plant or collecting station license issued by the board to the owner or operator of a rendering plant or collecting station upon submission of an application according to SDCL 40-17 and this chapter.

(4) "Rendering," the processing of carcasses, fish, poultry, and parts thereof, including scraps and grease, by cooking under steam pressure, including the skinning and dismembering of carcasses;

(5) "Rendering plant," an establishment where rendering is conducted, including the rooms or buildings where skinning and dismembering of carcasses is done; the tanks in which carcasses are cooked; the rooms or building used for storage of hides, tankage, or other products from processing; the adjacent areas used in the operations of collecting, hauling, skinning, dismembering, and cooking carcasses and the packaging, storing, and loading of the finished product of the rendering operation; the area used for the disposal of waste material unsuitable for rendering; and the liquid waste disposal facilities of the plant;

(6) "Truck," a vehicle or conveyance used for the transportation of carcasses, fish, poultry, renderable parts, or by-products;

(7) "Contract hauler," a person who maintains a contract with a licensed rendering establishment from South Dakota or from another state for the transport of carcasses to such rendering establishment or for the transport of carcasses to or from a collection station.