General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 94A Milk Control
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 94A, Section 1
The following words as used in this chapter and in sections seven to nine, inclusive, of chapter twenty, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of commissioner - Chapter 94A, Section 2
No provision of this chapter conferring a general power upon the commissioner shall be deemed to be impaired or qualified by the granting to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement by chief; appeal; hearing; notice - Chapter 94A, Section 3
Subject to the supervision and control of the commissioner, the chief shall enforce the provisions of this chapter and all orders, rules and regulations adopted
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of milk dealers; exception; licenses for schools, hospitals and charitable institutions - Chapter 94A, Section 4
(a) No milk dealer, except as provided in subsection (b), shall within the commonwealth buy or receive milk from producers or others, or sell or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application for license; contents; renewals; display - Chapter 94A, Section 5
Each person, before engaging in business as a milk dealer, shall make application to the commissioner for a license hereunder, which the commissioner is hereby...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; renewals; suspension; revocation; conditional licenses; hearing; notice - Chapter 94A, Section 6
The commissioner may decline to grant or renew a license, or may suspend or revoke a license already granted, or may grant a conditional or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hearing; delivery and return of revoked or cancelled license - Chapter 94A, Section 7
(a) Before declining to grant a license of any type, or suspending or revoking a license, the commissioner shall hold a hearing and grant the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal; jurisdiction of superior court - Chapter 94A, Section 8
An applicant or licensee aggrieved by any decision of the commissioner may appeal therefrom by filing a petition in the superior court within twenty days...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual license fee - Chapter 94A, Section 9
Each milk dealer required to be licensed under this chapter shall pay an annual license fee, as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prices, terms and conditions relative to milk; investigations; hearings; matters considered; minimum prices - Chapter 94A, Section 10
The commissioner shall ascertain, by such examination or investigation as the situation may permit or warrant, and after a general public hearing held after due...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Orders fixing minimum prices to producers and consumers; application of orders; rules and regulations - Chapter 94A, Section 11
(a) The commissioner, after making an examination and investigation authorized by this chapter and after hearing held after due notice, shall by his order fix...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Declaration of existence of emergency; petition and order establishing minimum prices; review; notice - Chapter 94A, Section 12
Upon petition in writing, with an affidavit that it is signed by not less than twenty-five per cent of the Massachusetts producers who, during the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment less than minimum price; recovery; assignment of claim - Chapter 94A, Section 12A
If any producer is paid by a milk dealer less than the minimum price for the sale or delivery of milk, as fixed by official...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on premises for inspection; reports; results of inspection; definitions - Chapter 94A, Section 13
(a) For the purpose of administering this chapter, the commissioner or any employee or other representative designated by the commissioner for the purpose, may enter,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase, sale or distribution of milk below price fixed or below cost; rebates - Chapter 94A, Section 14
(a) No milk dealer shall distribute or sell in any market within the commonwealth milk obtained from a producer or from another milk dealer if...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bidding procedures; reports; tests - Chapter 94A, Section 14A
Each institution supported in whole or in part by funds of the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, shall furnish to the commissioner, upon issue,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale by co-operative associations; statement of deductions - Chapter 94A, Section 15
(a) No sale of milk by a co-operative association to a milk dealer in any market shall be made at less than the applicable minimum...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations; investigations; general or special hearings; opportunity to appear and be heard; evidence - Chapter 94A, Section 16
(a) The commissioner or his authorized agent, may hold any examination or investigation, or any general or special hearing required or authorized under this chapter,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Time of notice of hearings, orders, rules and regulations - Chapter 94A, Section 17
(a) Seven days at least before any general hearing, the commissioner shall cause a notice containing a brief but sufficient statement of the subject matter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance and testimony of witnesses; production of books and records; administration of oaths; subpoenas; excuse from attendance; witness fees - Chapter 94A, Section 18
(a) The commissioner may compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and records or any other evidence that relates to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Publication of notice of hearings, orders, rules and regulations; certification of orders; service of subpoena; service of attested copies - Chapter 94A, Section 19
(a) Each notice of a general hearing and each general order, rule or regulation adopted by the commissioner, shall be published by (1) Posting a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1983, 691, Sec. 37 - Chapter 94A, Section 20
Repealed, 1983, 691, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Review; jurisdiction of superior court; injunction; declaratory judgment - Chapter 94A, Section 21
Any person aggrieved by any order, rule or regulation adopted by, or other decision of, the commissioner may, by petition filed within twenty days after...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties; report of violation; investigation; action; injunction - Chapter 94A, Section 22
Whoever violates any provision of this chapter or of any effective rule, regulation or order of the commissioner made under this chapter or adopted by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction and enforcement of chapter; acts or omissions of officers or agents acting for principal - Chapter 94A, Section 22A
When construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the act, omission or failure of any officer, agent or other person acting for or employed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Agreements, licenses, rules, regulations or orders in conflict with federal law - Chapter 94A, Section 23
When any agreement, license, rule, regulation or order made or issued pursuant to any relevant federal law shall be in effect in any market or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Uniform milk control; co-operation with United States and other states; enactment of compact by Congress; delegation formed - Chapter 94A, Section 24
(a) The commissioner may confer with legally constituted authorities of other states and of the United States with respect to uniform milk control within and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public interest; intention and purpose of statute - Chapter 94A, Section 25
It is hereby declared that the production and distribution of milk is an industry affected with a paramount public interest relating to the public health....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Partial invalidity - Chapter 94A, Section 26
If any provision of this chapter, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Short title - Chapter 94A, Section 27
This chapter may be cited as the Milk Control Law.
Last modified: September 11, 2015