New York Agriculture & Markets Law Article 21 - Milk Control

• 252 - Division of Milk Control.
  There shall be in the department a division to be known as the division of milk control. The head of the division shall be a...
• 253 - Definitions.
  As used in this article unless otherwise expressly stated, or unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: 1. "Division" means the division of milk...
• 254 - General Powers.
  The department through the commissioner is hereby vested with the powers heretofore conferred with respect to milk gathering stations, manufactories and plants, including the following:...
• 254-a - Milk Marketing Advisory Council.
  1. There shall be established a milk marketing advisory council to advise the commissioner in planning, programs and policy pertaining to milk marketing. The council...
• 255 - Rules and Orders.
  The commissioner may adopt and enforce all rules and all orders necessary to carry out the provisions of this article. Every rule or order shall...
• 256 - Entry, Inspection and Investigation.
  Any employee designated for the purpose shall have access to and may enter at all reasonable hours all places where milk is being stored, bottled...
• 256-a - Audits of Books and Accounts of Milk Dealers and Cooperatives.
  It shall be the duty of the commissioner to examine and audit from time to time, as the commissioner deems necessary and proper, the books...
• 256-b - Accounting of Milk Dealers and Cooperatives to Producers.
  1. For purposes of this section, any corporation or association of persons engaged in the production of agricultural products and operating for the mutual benefit...
• 257 - Licenses to Milk Dealers.
  1. No milk dealer shall buy milk from producers or others or deal in, handle, sell or distribute milk unless such dealer be duly licensed...
• 257-a - Transportation and Storage of Milk.
  1. Any vehicle transporting pasteurized milk for retail sale in the same container shall be transported in a vehicle capable of maintaining milk at a...
• 258 - Application for License.
  An applicant for a license to operate as a milk dealer shall file an application upon a blank prepared under authority of the commissioner. An...
• 258-a - License Fees.
  1. A milk dealer receiving, purchasing, handling or selling during any of the twelve calendar months immediately preceding the period for which the license is...
• 258-b - Prompt Payment for Milk Purchases; Security Funds; Bonding of Milk Dealers.
  1. Scope of coverage. (a) For purposes of this section, a cooperative corporation or association of producers shall be deemed to be a producer and...
• 258-c - Granting and Revoking Licenses.
  No license shall be denied to a person not now engaged in business as a milk dealer, or for the continuation of a now existing...
• 258-d - Proceedings to Review.
  The action of the commissioner in refusing to grant or renew a license, or in revoking or suspending a license, or in conditioning or limiting...
• 258-e - Violations; Remedies.
  1. The commissioner may institute such action at law or in equity as may appear necessary to enforce compliance with any provision of the statutes,...
• 258-f - Records.
  The commissioner may require milk dealers to keep the following records: (a) A record of all milk received, detailed as to location, and as to...
• 258-g - Reports.
  Each milk dealer shall, from time to time, as required by rule or order of the commissioner, make and file a verified report on forms...
• 258-j - Construction, Exceptions and Limitations.
  The license required by this article shall be in addition to any other license required by this chapter or otherwise required by law. This article...
• 258-k - Declaration of Policy.
  For the purpose of implementing the provisions of section two hundred fifty-eight-k through section two hundred fifty-eight-n of this article, it is hereby declared that...
• 258-l - Producers' Bargaining Agencies and Distributors' Bargaining Agencies.
  (a) Incorporated producers' associations operated under and subject to the cooperative corporations law of this state, or similar laws of another state and organized and...
• 258-m - Orders Fixing Prices for Milk and Marketing Agreements.
  1. Upon the petition of a producers' bargaining agency of the production area supplying a marketing area, such agency representing at least thirty-five per centum...
• 258-n - Interstate and Federal Compacts.
  The commissioner is hereby authorized to confer with legally constituted authorities of other states and of the United States with respect to uniform milk control,...
• 258-o - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
  258-o. The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to make a study of the sanitary regulations, codes and rules applicable to milk and milk products...
• 258-p - Declaration of Policy.
  It is hereby declared: that the milk industry is a paramount agricultural activity of this state and of the northeast in a region comprising the...
• 258-q - Action for a Uniform Northeast Market.
  The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to act independently or through the Northeastern Association of State Departments of Agriculture, the National Conference on Interstate...
• 258-r - Actions to Eliminate Trade Barriers.
  1. Any dairy farmer or cooperative producing milk within this state, any licensed milk dealer or general farm organization may file a complaint with the...

Last modified: February 3, 2019