In order to develop and encourage home industry and to protect and promote the interests of producers and provide consumers with food products of uniform grade and quality at fair and reasonable prices, it shall be the duty of the commissioner and he shall have authority to promote, regulate, coordinate, establish and conduct a system of marketing agricultural products in the State of West Virginia. He shall assist producers and handlers in the grading, classification and standardization of agricultural products at public markets, concentration points, packing, grading and processing plants and other places where agricultural products are assembled for distribution.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 2. Marketing Agricultural Products
§19-2-2. Duties and Powers of Commissioner
§19-2-3. Commissioner to Cooperate With Federal Department of Agriculture
§19-2-5. Inspection and Grading of Agricultural Products; Charges
§19-2-6. Inspection and Quarantine Powers of Commissioner
§19-2-9. Inspectors, Graders and Assistants
§19-2-10. Commissioner to Enforce Article
§19-2-12. Agriculture Development Fund; Administration; Purpose; Funding