North Dakota Code § 4.1-31-16

Registration and licensure of business
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1. A person may not engage in intrastate business as a meat broker, renderer, or animal 
food manufacturer; a wholesaler of animal carcasses intended for human food or other 
purposes; a public warehouse operator storing carcasses of animals in or for intrastate 
commerce; or a buyer, seller, or transporter of dead, dying, disabled, or diseased 
animals, or the carcasses of animals that died other than by slaughter, unless the 
person first provides the commissioner with the person's name, the address of each 
place of business under which the person conducts business, and all trade names 
under which the person conducts business.
2. A person, in order to operate under this chapter, shall obtain a license in accordance 
with the rules adopted by the commissioner. Application for a license must be made on 
forms provided by the commissioner. The commissioner may refuse to issue a license 
if the applicant or the establishment of the applicant is not in compliance with this 
chapter and related rules. If the commissioner finds that the person to which the 
license is issued violates this chapter or related rules, the commissioner may suspend 
or revoke the license, or upon revocation and with good cause, refuse to issue a new 
license.

3. A person applying for a license pursuant to this section shall pay a license fee to the 
commissioner as follows:
a. The license fee for an official establishment is twenty-five dollars;
b. The license fee for a custom exempt establishment is twenty-five dollars; and
c. The license fee for any other establishment or entity required to be licensed 
under this chapter is twenty-five dollars.

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