New York Laws
Article 4 - Dairy Products.
54 - Regulations in Regard to Manufactories, Plants or Places Where Milk or Cream Is Brought or Received.

§ 54. Regulations in regard to manufactories, plants or places where
milk or cream is brought or received. No person shall sell, supply or
bring to any butter or cheese factory or to any plant or place which
manufactures a food product from milk or which ships or sells milk for
consumption any milk diluted with water, or any unclean, impure,
unhealthy, adulterated or unwholesome milk, or milk from which any of
the cream has been taken, except pure skim milk to skim-cheese
factories. No person shall sell, supply or bring to be manufactured to
any butter or cheese factory or to any plant or place which manufactures
a food product from milk or which ships or sells milk for consumption
any milk that is sour or from which has been kept back any part of the
milk commonly known as strippings, except pure skim milk to skim-cheese
factories. The owner or proprietor or the person having charge of any
such manufactory, plant or place where milk is received for any such
purpose, not buying all the milk used by him, shall not use for his own
benefit, or allow any of his employees or any other person to use for
his own benefit, any milk, cream, butter or cheese or any other product
thereof, brought to such factory, without the consent of the owners of
such milk or the products thereof. Every such manufactory, plant or
place not buying all the milk used, shall keep a correct account of all
the milk or cream daily received, of the number of packages of butter
and cheese made each day, and the number of packages and aggregate
weight of cheese and butter disposed of each day; which account shall be
open to inspection to any person who delivers milk to such manufactory,
plant or place. Every purchaser or receiver of milk from the producer
thereof, for manufacturing purposes or for reselling the same, shall on
written request therefor, tender daily thereafter at time of delivery to
such producer, or to the person delivering such milk to such purchaser
in behalf of such producer, a written statement of the amount of milk so
received or purchased until or unless such producer notifies such
purchaser in writing that he no longer desires such statement; such
statement shall give, first, the name of the producer or seller, second,
the date of delivery, third, the amount so delivered, fourth, shall be
signed by the purchaser or his duly authorized representative; such
statement shall be given in the terms of the unit used as a basis for
determining the value thereof. Such purchaser or receiver shall, at each
periodical time of payment for such milk, give each such producer, so
delivering milk, a statement showing the amount of milk delivered during
the periodical time for which payment is made, and the average per
centum of butter fat test of same, provided payment is made on basis of
butter fat content.

Any person having charge of a milk gathering station or establishment
as aforesaid shall keep a true and correct monthly record of the
receipts of milk or other dairy products received at such station or
establishment, and also a true and correct monthly record of all sales
or shipments of milk, cream or other dairy products shipped or sold from
such station or establishment, and shall also keep a true and correct
monthly record of the amount of skim milk produced in such station or
establishment and of the disposition of said skim milk. Such record
shall be preserved at such station or establishment for at least two
years after the same shall have been made and such records shall at all
times be open to the inspection of the commissioner, his assistants or
agents. When cream is sold or shipped from any such station or
establishment so selling or shipping milk for consumption as aforesaid,
each original bottle or package of one quart or less of cream so shipped
or sold shall bear a label securely attached to the side of such bottle
or package on which shall be conspicuously printed the word "cream" in
black letters of at least one-fourth of an inch in length or else the

word "cream" shall be blown in the side of such bottle in plain raised
letters of at least one-half an inch in length, and the top and side of
each and every other original package or can containing cream or
original crate or case containing bottles of cream so shipped or sold
shall bear a label securely attached on which shall be conspicuously
printed the word "cream" in black letters of at least one inch in length
and also a plainly written or printed statement on the label stating
from whom and what station the same is shipped and the name of the
consignee and point of destination and date on which the cream therein
was produced by such separation or skimming. The shipment of each and
every such original package of cream so shipped and not so labeled as
herein required shall constitute a separate violation.