SECTION 35:37-5-9. Application for inspection; required facilities  


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  •   An application for inspection service to be rendered in an official establishment shall be made according to the following procedure:
    (1)   Prints of drawings and specifications to be furnished.
    (A)   Applicants for inspection service may obtain information or assistance from the Meat Inspection Division with respect to the requirements before submitting prints of drawings and specifications.
    (B)   Two prints of drawings showing the features specified in this Section shall be submitted to the Director. The drawings or prints shall be legible, made with sharp, clear lines, and properly drawn to scale and shall consist of complete floor plans and a plot plan. Submissions consisting of more than one sheet should be bound together at the left margin in sets.
    (C)   The plot plan shall show such features as the limits of the establishment premises, location in outline of buildings on the premises, one point of the compass, and the location of roadways, railroads, and water and sewer lines or sewage facilities serving the establishment.
    (D)   The floor plan shall show all space to be included in the official establishment. If rooms or compartments shown on the drawings are not to be included as part of the official establishment, this shall be clearly indicated thereon.
    (E)   The sheets of paper on which prints of drawings are made shall not exceed a size of 34 x 44. The drawings, other than of the plot plan, shall be made to a scale of one-eighth inch per foot. The plot plan may be drawn to a scale of not less than one-thirty-second inch per foot. The drawings shall indicate the scale used and shall so indicate the floor shown (e.g. basement, first or second).
    (2)   Features required to be shown on floor plan. The following features shall be shown on the floor plan:
    (A)   The principal pieces of equipment drawn to scale in the proper locations;
    (B)   The name of the operator and address of the establishment by street and street number, or by other means properly identifying the location of the establishment. (This information shall be shown on each drawing the same as shown on the application for service);
    (C)   One point of the compass;
    (D)   The doors and openings for passageways, designating those that are self-closing or permanently closed:
    (E)   All floor drain openings and gutter drains, and for all buildings constructed after September 1, 1959, the approximate location of all underfloor and underground piping.
    (F)   Lavatories in toilet and processing rooms (lavatories that are other than hand operated shall be so designated on the blueprints);
    (G)   All Steam and hot and cold water outlets for cleanup purposes;
    (H)   Ice making and storage facilities.
    (I)   The point at which live poultry is hung on the conveyor line, the point where dressed poultry is removed, and the point of transfer to the eviscerating line;
    (J)   The routes of the edible and inedible products;
    (K)   The location of fresh air inlets, exhaust fans and hoods.
    (3)   Specifications. Specifications covering the following shall accompany the drawings:
    (A)   Height of ceilings;
    (B)   Type of ceilings -- open or closed;
    (C)   Finish of ceilings; for example -- cement plaster, metal, marine plywood, cement, asbestos board, etc.;
    (D)   Finish of walls; for example -- cement, plaster, glazed tile, glazed brick, glass blocks, etc.,
    (E)   Screens -- indicate whether all outside openings are screened or provided with other suitable devices against entrance of flies or other insects;
    (F)   Finish of floors -- concrete, brick, mastic material, etc.;
    (G)   Drainage -- indicate amount of slope of floors to the drains in processing rooms, coolers, toilets, and refuse rooms, and give description of trapping and venting of drainage lines, and of floor drain openings. Indicate size of drainage lines and whether house drainage lines and toilet soil lines are separate to a point outside of buildings;
    (H)   Heating -- indicate type;
    (I)   Water supply -- indicate whether public or private water supply, or both, and specify in terms of gallons per minute of water available for the processing needs of the plant. Also indicate whether or not a nonpotable water supply is used for any purpose in the plant and, if so, specify such uses;
    (J)   Hot water facilities -- specify facilities such as boilers, storage tanks, mixing valves, etc., and indicate the size;
    (K)   Specify number of men and number of women who will use each toilet room;
    (L)   Sewage disposal-indicate whether city sewer, cesspool, sedimentation tank, etc.;
    (M)   Approximate rate of production -- for slaughtering and/or eviscerating establishments, indicate hourly rate of slaughter and/or evisceration for each class of poultry, and for other types of establishments indicate pounds of each type of poultry products processed per hour.
    (4)   The drawings of the establishment shall show employees' toilet and dressing rooms, office space for the inspectors, storerooms for supplies, refuse rooms, and all rooms, compartments, or passageways where poultry or poultry products, or any ingredients to be used in the preparation of poultry products will be handled or kept. The drawings shall also show all other rooms or compartments located in the buildings that are to comprise the official establishment.
    (5)   When changes are proposed in areas for which drawings have been previously approved, one of the following types of revised drawings shall be submitted for review and consideration:
    (A)   A completely revised sheet or sheets, showing proposed alterations or additions, or
    (B)   Pasters of minor changes that may be affixed to the affected areas on the previously approved drawings in a manner not obscuring essential data. Paster drawings shall be prepared to the same scale and presented on a background similar to that of the originally approved drawings.
[Source: Added at 21 Ok Reg 1181, eff 5-27-04]