§ 2-1-10. Inspection powers.
(a) For the purpose of conducting inspections, the director of environmental management and the director of health, or any of his or her agents or deputies, have authority to enter, at any reasonable time, any building, storehouse, warehouse, cold-storage plant, packing house, stockyard, railroad yard, railroad car, or any other building or place where farm products are produced, kept, stored, or offered for sale, or to enter upon any farm land for the purpose of inspecting farm products.
(b) The director of the department of environmental management, through the division of agriculture, shall continue to enforce the commercial growers of fruits and vegetables voluntary food safety program developed by the Food and Drug Administration and the United States Department of Agriculture known as Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), and shall enforce the Food Safety Modernization Act as it pertains to commercial growers of fruits and vegetables.
History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 241, § 37, as enacted by P.L. 1928, ch. 1181, § 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 209, § 4; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 160; G.L. 1956, § 2-1-10; P.L. 2017, ch. 213, § 1; P.L. 2017, ch. 243, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry
Chapter 2-1 - Agricultural Functions of Department of Environmental Management
Section 2-1-1 - — 2-1-4. [Superseded.]
Section 2-1-5. - Agricultural institutes — Local associations.
Section 2-1-6. - Annual report — Publications.
Section 2-1-8. - Promotion of Rhode Island grown farm products and Rhode Island seafood.
Section 2-1-9. - Enforcement of marketing laws.
Section 2-1-10. - Inspection powers.
Section 2-1-10.1. - Assent to food safety modernization act.
Section 2-1-11. - Administration of oaths — Subpoena of witnesses and papers.