§ 12-5. Dead animals.

(a)

No animal that died by disease or accident and no meat therefrom, nor any animal or meat therefrom killed while feverish, bruised, disabled; injured with broken bones or otherwise; heavy with young; jaded or fatigued from long driving or shipping; killed or kept in some building or in so close a proximity with fumes of gas, disease or spoiled meat as to become contaminated therefrom or rendered unwholesome or unhealthy thereby; or manipulated with tools used on diseased or other dead carcasses as the aforesaid shall be brought into the town and held or offered for sale as food therein.

(b)

Owners of animals dying in the town shall, upon notice of their death, immediately remove same. Removal of such animal at least one-half mile beyond the corporate limits of the town must be accomplished within 12 hours from the time of the animal's death.

(Code 1977, § 8-5004; Code 1986, § 7-5)

State law reference

Removal of dead animals from roads by state department of transportation, G.S. 136-18.