Section 2-11-1 Purposes of article. The purposes of this article are to promote, protect and develop the agricultural interests of this state, to regulate and control the marketing of agricultural products, to provide for the fixing and promulgation of standards for any or all containers for agricultural products which shall be the official standards for […]
Section 2-11-10 Offenses by or concerning employees and inspectors. Any employee or agent employed under this article or any inspector licensed under this article, who shall knowingly inspect or classify improperly any agricultural product or shall knowingly give an incorrect certificate of classification, quality or condition or shall accept money or other consideration directly or […]
Section 2-11-11 Violations of standards; disposition of fines and fees. Whenever standards for agricultural products have been promulgated under this article, no person thereafter shall in any manner class, represent, describe or refer to any agricultural product for which such standards have been fixed in the preparation for or offering for sale or transportation, sale, […]
Section 2-11-2 Marketing in bulk or ungraded. The provisions of this article shall apply only when agricultural products are sold in sacks, bags, crates, boxes, packages or other containers and shall not prevent the sale of any such products in bulk; provided, that, for the purposes of this article, the Board of Agriculture and Industries […]
Section 2-11-3 Powers of commissioner and board. (a) The commissioner shall have the power to: (1) Inspect and determine the grade and condition of agricultural products both at shipping points and receiving centers within this state and provide for the issuance of certificates as to grade or condition of such products; (2) Inspect, test and […]
Section 2-11-4 Date standards become effective; information concerning standards. The commissioner shall specify the date or dates when the standards, or any alterations or modifications of such standards, adopted under the provisions of this article, shall become effective and shall give public notice not less than 30 days in advance of such date or dates […]
Section 2-11-5 Federal standards may be adopted; cooperation with federal government. The commissioner, with the advice and counsel of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, is authorized to fix and promulgate as the official standards for this state for any agricultural product the standard for such product promulgated or announced therefor under the authority […]
Section 2-11-6 Designation and licensing of inspectors; duties; fees; unlawful acts. The commissioner is hereby authorized to designate any competent employee or agent of the Department of Agriculture and Industries or United States Department of Agriculture and to license any competent person and to charge and collect a reasonable fee for such license to inspect […]
Section 2-11-7 Certificate as evidence. A certificate of inspection or classification by a duly designated person issued under this article and all such certificates issued under authority of the Congress of the United States relating to the classification, quality or condition of agricultural products shall be accepted in any court of this state as prima […]
Section 2-11-8 Rules and regulations. The Board of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to promulgate all general rules and regulations necessary and practicable to the carrying out of the purposes of this article by the commissioner. The commissioner, with the approval of the board, may form or enter into agreements with other agricultural agencies, […]
Section 2-11-9 Bonds of employees and inspectors. The commissioner may require any employee or agent and any inspector licensed under this article to execute and file with him a good and sufficient bond, payable to the state, in such sum, not exceeding $1,000.00, and with such surety or sureties as he may prescribe, conditioned upon […]
