# § 463. Rules and regulations
**(a)** **Storage and handling of poultry products; violation of regulations** The Secretary may by regulations prescribe conditions under which poultry products capable of use as human food, shall be stored or otherwise handled by any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting, in or for commerce, or importing, such articles, whenever the Secretary deems such action necessary to assure that such articles will not be adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the consumer. Violation of any such regulation is prohibited.
**(b)** **Other necessary rules and regulations** The Secretary shall promulgate such other rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
**(c)** **Oral presentation of views** section 553(c) of title 5
In applying the provisions of to proposed rule making under this chapter, an opportunity for the oral presentation of views shall be accorded all interested persons.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 85–172, § 14, Aug. 28, 1957, 71 Stat. 447; Pub. L. 90–492, § 13, Aug. 18, 1968, 82 Stat. 803.)
## Editorial Notes
### Amendments
1968— designated existing provisions as par. (b), added pars. (a) and (c), and in par. (b), as so designated, substituted “such other rules” for “such rules”.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date of 1968 Amendment
Amendment by effective , see , set out as a note under .