29.021 COMMISSIONER’S POWERS AND DUTIES. The commissioner of agriculture shall have the power to employ such persons as are necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 29.021 to 29.081, and to fix all salaries and provide for expenses generally not inconsistent with law. The commissioner is authorized and directed to formulate and adopt plans […]
29.031 ADVERTISING. Owners of accredited and certified poultry breeding flocks and hatcheries shall have the right to use the terminology prescribed by the commissioner of agriculture in their literature and advertising and on shipping labels. The commissioner may, by rule, require the submission of all or any part of such literature and advertising matter to […]
29.051 POULTRY DISEASE ERADICATION. The Board of Animal Health shall cooperate with the commissioner of agriculture in all ways consistent with law. The board shall have exclusive jurisdiction and control over all matters pertaining to poultry diseases and the control and eradication thereof. The board is authorized to formulate, adopt, and enforce rules whereby owners […]
29.061 PRODUCTS TO BE LABELED. All poultry and poultry products shipped under the authority of sections 29.021 to 29.081 shall be uniformly labeled with designs prescribed and furnished by the commissioner of agriculture; provided that all labeling pertaining to disease or freedom therefrom shall first be approved by the Board of Animal Health. History: (5460-13) […]
29.071 CERTAIN ADVERTISING FORBIDDEN. No person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation shall use in literature, advertising material or on shipping labels, or otherwise, any language, words or phrases implying or indicating a breeding or a disease eradication or control status in conjunction with either the word “state” or the word “Minnesota,” or both, as related […]
29.081 MAY CANCEL CERTIFICATES. The commissioner of agriculture may cancel any certificate of accreditation or certification issued under the commissioner’s authority, and likewise the secretary and executive officer of the Board of Animal Health may cancel any certificate of testing, approval, or accreditation issued under the authority of the board, for violation of sections 29.021 […]
29.201 BUYERS OF DOMESTIC FOWL; DEALERS’ REGISTERS. Every person who engages in the business of buying chickens, turkeys, or other domestic fowl of any kind shall keep and maintain a complete record of all such transactions in a ledger or other suitable book of account permanently bound, which for the purposes of sections 29.201 to […]
29.203 REGISTER PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE. Every register made or kept in compliance with the provisions of sections 29.201 to 29.205 shall be prima facie evidence of the truth and accuracy of the facts therein stated or appearing as required thereby. Every such register shall at all times be open to inspection and examination by any […]
29.205 FAILURE TO KEEP REGISTERS; FALSE ENTRY THEREIN. Any person who fails to keep such record or causes to be entered or recorded any false, untruthful, deceptive, or misleading statement or data in any register required to be kept by sections 29.201 to 29.205, or who changes, alters, destroys, mutilates, injures, secretes, conceals, or withholds […]
