Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 97 - Food, lodging, and recreation.
97.17 - Buttermaker and cheesemaker license.

97.17 Buttermaker and cheesemaker license.
(1) In this section the terms “buttermaker" and “cheesemaker" mean a person employed or who may be employed in a butter or a cheese factory who has charge of and supervision over the actual process of manufacturing butter or cheese, and shall not include a person employed in a butter or cheese factory for the purpose of assisting in the manufacture of such product. This section shall not affect a person making up a product produced on the person's farm, nor shall it be unlawful for a licensed cheesemaker employed in a licensed cheese factory to make butter or whey cream butter for the use or consumption only of the patrons thereof.
(2) No person shall engage as a buttermaker or cheesemaker unless the person has a license from the department. The license shall be issued by the department under regulations that the department shall prescribe relating to the qualifications of applicants for licenses. The qualifications shall include the applicant's record in operating and keeping in sanitary condition the butter or cheese factory in which the applicant has been employed.
(3) Application for a buttermaker's or cheesemaker's license shall be made upon a form furnished by the department. Upon receipt of the application the department shall issue a permit to the applicant to carry on the work of a buttermaker or cheesemaker. The permit shall have the force and effect of a license to a buttermaker or cheesemaker until a license shall have been issued to the applicant or until the applicant shall have been notified of the denial of the application. At the time that the permit is issued, the department shall furnish the applicant with the regulations incident to securing a license and also suggestions relating to the proper method of operating butter or cheese factories.
(4) Each application for a license shall be accompanied by a fee that is $50 unless otherwise established by department rule, except that an individual who is eligible for the veterans fee waiver program under s. 45.44 is not required to pay a fee.
(6) The license shall expire on the first day of January of the 2nd year commencing after the date of issuance or renewal. Renewal applications shall be submitted on department forms and be accompanied by the biennial license fee under sub. (4).
History: 1977 c. 216; 1979 c. 342; 1987 a. 27; 1989 a. 174; 1991 a. 39; 1993 a. 492; 1995 a. 225; 2011 a. 209.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 97 - Food, lodging, and recreation.

97.01 - Definitions.

97.02 - Standards; adulterated food.

97.03 - Standards; misbranding.

97.07 - Interpretation.

97.09 - Rules.

97.10 - Prohibited acts.

97.12 - Enforcement.

97.13 - Sale of fish flour regulated.

97.17 - Buttermaker and cheesemaker license.

97.175 - Butter and cheese grader license requirements.

97.176 - Butter; grading; label.

97.177 - Cheese; grading; labeling.

97.18 - Oleomargarine regulations.

97.20 - Dairy plants.

97.21 - Milk haulers and milk distributors.

97.22 - Milk producers.

97.23 - Drug residues in milk.

97.24 - Milk and milk products.

97.25 - Use of synthetic bovine growth hormone; labeling of dairy products.

97.27 - Food warehouses.

97.28 - Direct sale of eggs.

97.29 - Food processing plants.

97.30 - Retail food establishments.

97.305 - Restaurants serving fish.

97.307 - Average annual surveys.

97.32 - Special dairy and food inspectors.

97.33 - Certificate of food protection practices.

97.34 - Bottled drinking water and soda water beverage; standards; sampling and analysis.

97.41 - Retail food: agent status for local health departments.

97.42 - Compulsory inspection of livestock or poultry, and meat or poultry products.

97.43 - Meat from dead or diseased animals.

97.44 - Identification of meat for animal feed; registration and records of buyers.

97.56 - Kosher meat.

97.57 - Planted or cultivated rice.

97.59 - Handling foods.

97.60 - Coordination; certification.

97.603 - Motels.

97.605 - Lodging and vending licenses.

97.607 - Pre-licensing inspection.

97.61 - Vending machine commissary outside the state.

97.613 - Fees.

97.615 - Agent status for local health departments.

97.617 - Application; lodging and vending.

97.62 - Health and safety; standard.

97.623 - Hotel safety.

97.625 - Powers of the department and local health departments.

97.627 - Causing fires by tobacco smoking.

97.633 - Hotelkeeper's liability.

97.634 - Hotelkeeper's liability for baggage; limitation.

97.635 - Liability of hotelkeeper for loss of property by fire or theft; owner's risk.

97.638 - Hotel rates posted; rate charges; special rates.

97.639 - Motel rates.

97.65 - Enforcement.

97.67 - Recreational licenses and fees.

97.70 - Authority of department of safety and professional services.

97.703 - Joint employment.

97.71 - Suspension or revocation of license.

97.72 - Penalties.

97.73 - Injunction.