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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 20-59-101. Division of Environmental Health Protection — Regulatory powers and duties - (a) The Division of Environmental Health Protection of the Department...
Subchapter 2 - Regulation of Manufacture and Sale Generally
§ 20-59-201. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 20-59-202. Penalties - Any person, firm, or corporation shall be guilty of a...
§ 20-59-203. Prosecutions - All prosecutions brought for violations of the provisions of this...
§ 20-59-204. State Board of Health — Appointment of deputies — Rules and standards - (a) (1) The State Board of Health is authorized and...
§ 20-59-205. Right of review — Definition - (a) It shall be the duty of the State Board...
§ 20-59-206. Dairy plant license - (a) A dairy products plant manufacturing, processing, or packaging any...
§ 20-59-207. Frozen dessert manufacturer's license - (a) For purposes of licensing, a dairy plant manufacturing or...
§ 20-59-208. Receiving or transfer plant license - (a) Any plant where fluid milk or cream not in...
§ 20-59-209. Mellorine manufacturer's license - (a) For a mellorine plant making, processing, manufacturing, freezing, or...
§ 20-59-210. Sampler and grader license - (a) Every person receiving or buying milk or cream on...
§ 20-59-211. Milk tester license and fee - (a) Every person receiving or buying milk or cream on...
§ 20-59-212. Plant permits — Cancellation, withdrawal, and suspension - (a) Permits to operate milk, ice cream, and dairy product...
§ 20-59-213. Dairy products from another state - (a) It is required that all dairy products as defined...
§ 20-59-214. Unlawful acts — Insanitary plants - It shall be unlawful to handle, process, freeze, or manufacture...
§ 20-59-215. Unlawful acts — False tests - It shall be unlawful, in determining the value of milk,...
§ 20-59-216. Unlawful acts — Improper method of testing - It shall be unlawful to use other than the Babcock...
§ 20-59-217. Unlawful acts — Improper scales - It shall be unlawful to use other than torsion balance...
§ 20-59-218. Unlawful acts — Improper centrifuges - It shall be improper to use other than standard types...
§ 20-59-219. Unlawful acts — Improper testing apparatus - It shall be unlawful to use other than specifications for...
§ 20-59-220. Unlawful acts — Unclean instruments - It shall be unlawful for any person to use any...
§ 20-59-221. Unlawful acts — Improper temperature for tests - It shall be unlawful to maintain milk and cream tests...
§ 20-59-222. Unlawful acts — Improper reading of butterfat control - It shall be unlawful to read the percent of butterfat...
§ 20-59-223. Unlawful acts — Handling in insanitary places - It shall be unlawful to handle milk, cream, butter, frozen...
§ 20-59-224. Unlawful acts — Products of diseased animals — Contaminated products - It shall be unlawful in all cases to sell or...
§ 20-59-225. Unlawful acts — Preservatives - It shall be unlawful to sell or offer or expose...
§ 20-59-226. Unlawful acts — Removing label of health officer - It shall be unlawful to remove or deface any tags...
§ 20-59-227. Unlawful acts — Unpasteurized products - It shall be unlawful to make and offer for sale...
§ 20-59-228. Unlawful acts — Products below standard - It shall be unlawful to sell, keep for sale, expose,...
§ 20-59-229. Unlawful acts — Cream graded for buttermaking — Price differential - It shall be unlawful to purchase or receive cream for...
§ 20-59-230. Unlawful acts — Mold or sediment test - It shall be unlawful to purchase raw cream or milk...
§ 20-59-231. Unlawful acts — Empty cans inverted - It shall be unlawful to fail to invert empty cream...
§ 20-59-232. Unlawful acts — Records of cream buyers — Monthly reports - It shall be unlawful for all cream buyers to purchase...
§ 20-59-233. Unlawful acts — Place of testing or grading — Delivery to carrier in unwholesome condition - It shall be unlawful for all persons collecting milk or...
§ 20-59-234. Unlawful acts — Operation without permit - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation...
§ 20-59-235. Unlawful acts — Labeling of cheese - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation...
§ 20-59-236. Unlawful acts — Removal of label - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation...
§ 20-59-237. Unlawful acts — Renovation of butter or cheese - It shall be unlawful to renovate butter or cheese without...
§ 20-59-238. Unlawful acts — Labeling of renovated butter - It shall be unlawful to sell, offer for sale, or...
§ 20-59-239. Unlawful acts — Labeling ice cream - It shall be unlawful to sell ice cream or ice...
§ 20-59-240. Unlawful acts — Labeling ice milk - (a) It shall be unlawful to sell ice milk unless...
§ 20-59-241. Unlawful acts — Labeling ice cream mix - It shall be unlawful to sell or transport ice cream...
§ 20-59-242. Unlawful acts — Bacteria count of frozen dessert - It shall be unlawful for any dairy products plant to...
§ 20-59-243. Unlawful acts — Graded milk - It shall be unlawful to label, sell, or offer for...
§ 20-59-244. Unlawful acts — Pasteurized milk — Permit - It shall be unlawful to label, sell, or offer for...
§ 20-59-245. Unlawful acts — Name of distributor on container — Sale of misprint bottle caps - It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale...
§ 20-59-246. Manufacturing milk permit - (a) Every dairy which produces milk or cream to be...
§ 20-59-247. Disposition of funds - (a) All fees and fines collected under this subchapter are...
§ 20-59-248. Incidental sales of goat milk, sheep milk, and whole milk that has not been pasteurized not prohibited — Definitions - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Incidental sales of...
Subchapter 3 - Mellorine
§ 20-59-301. Applicability - Every person, firm, or corporation producing, manufacturing, processing, freezing, or...
§ 20-59-302. Penalties - (a) Any person, firm, or corporation that violates any of...
§ 20-59-303. State Board of Health — Enforcement - (a) The State Board of Health, through its constituted officers...
§ 20-59-304. Production requirements generally - (a) Any person, firm, or corporation that can and does...
§ 20-59-305. Production permit required - (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or...
§ 20-59-306. Original containers and labeling required - (a) Mellorine shall be sold in or served from original,...
§ 20-59-307. Imitation mellorine - (a) Any food product containing any food fat as defined...
§ 20-59-308. False or misleading advertising prohibited - (a) The false and misleading advertising of mellorine is prohibited....
Subchapter 4 - Grade “A” Milk Program Act
§ 20-59-401. Title - This subchapter may be cited as the “Arkansas Grade ‘A’...
§ 20-59-402. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 20-59-403. Division of Environmental Health Protection — Regulatory powers and duties - (a) The Division of Environmental Health Protection of the Department...
§ 20-59-404. Inspection fees - (a) In order to make the Grade “A” Milk and...
§ 20-59-405. Disposition and transfer of inspection fees - (a) (1) All moneys received by the Department of Health...
§ 20-59-406. Motor vehicles - (a) Vehicles purchased with milk inspection fee funds or assigned...
Subchapter 6 - Purchases by Milk Processors
§ 20-59-601. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 20-59-602. Escrow accounts - (a) (1) Pursuant to the provisions of this section, a...
§ 20-59-603. Purchase requirements - A milk processor shall not purchase raw milk from a...
§ 20-59-604. Civil penalties - A milk processor who fails to pay for raw milk...
§ 20-59-605. Exemption of certain cooperative associations and their members - This subchapter does not apply to transactions between a cooperative...
§ 20-59-606. Criminal penalties - Any milk processor failing to establish an escrow account upon...
Subchapter 7 - Milk Laboratory Antibiotic Drug Testing Program
§ 20-59-701. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Dairy cooperative” means an...
§ 20-59-702. Testing program - The Public Health Laboratory of the Department of Health may...
§ 20-59-703. Rules - The Department of Health shall have the authority to promulgate...
§ 20-59-704. Fees — Penalties - (a) (1) By June 1 of each year, the Department...
§ 20-59-705. Disposition of funds - (a) All fees and fines collected under this subchapter are...