The State Health Commissioner, pursuant to the regulations adopted pursuant to § 3.2-5206, shall issue permits to all plants that process and distribute Grade A market milk and Grade A market milk products. The State Health Commissioner shall also enforce the regulations adopted under § 3.2-5206 in all plants from the point of delivery at the plant to the consumer. He is empowered, in the performance of his duties, to enter upon and to have free access to any establishment or area subject to the provisions of this article, or the regulations adopted hereunder, pertaining to the processing and distribution of Grade A market milk, Grade A market milk products, ungraded milk products, and those products manufactured in semblance to or as substitutes in Grade A market milk and Grade A market milk products plants from the point of delivery at the plant to the consumer. It shall be unlawful for any person to hinder, obstruct, or interfere with the State Health Commissioner in the performance of his duties under this article or under the regulations adopted hereunder.
1970, c. 49, § 3.1-530.4; 2008, c. 860.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 3.2 - Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food
Chapter 52 - Milk, Milk Products, and Dairies
§ 3.2-5200. Duty of Commissioner to foster dairy industry
§ 3.2-5202. Sale of products not subject to local supervision
§ 3.2-5203. Importing of products
§ 3.2-5204. Warning and punishment of persons using or furnishing impure milk
§ 3.2-5207. Powers and duties of Commissioner; obstruction unlawful
§ 3.2-5208. Powers and duties of State Health Commissioner; obstruction unlawful
§ 3.2-5211. Excessive drug residue; penalty
§ 3.2-5212. Authority of Board to establish standards, adopt regulations
§ 3.2-5213. Commissioner to enforce article; right of entry
§ 3.2-5215. Detention of adulterated, misbranded products
§ 3.2-5216. Condemnation of adulterated, misbranded products
§ 3.2-5220. Inspection of centrifugal machines and scales; condemnation
§ 3.2-5222. To whom certificates issued
§ 3.2-5224. Regulations governing equipment, standards and procedures
§ 3.2-5225. Capacity of standard measurers
§ 3.2-5226. Units for testing cream
§ 3.2-5227. Sampling to determine butterfat by composite tests
§ 3.2-5228. Test of measurers; inspection of machines and scales; right of entry
§ 3.2-5229. False manipulation and reading of tests
§ 3.2-5230. Tender of payment as evidence of test
§ 3.2-5231. Commissioner to enforce article; persons exempt