Title XXI, Agriculture and Animals

Each transfer station location where permitted producers' milk is handled shall be licensed. Application for a license shall be made to the director. The license fee provided for in KRS 260.815 shall accompany the application. Each licensee shall notify the director, in writing, …

All milk importers who deliver milk to processors in this state shall be licensed or permitted to sample and weigh milk by the state from which the milk originated and shall comply with KRS 260.775 to 260.845.

(1) Every licensee shall keep complete records, as defined in KRS 260.775, for a period of two (2) years. (2) Each licensed location shall keep records of all its transactions at the location. (3) All records shall be accessible for inspection by the director during customary bus…

(1) Each milk handler and laboratory shall, as required by the director, make and file reports for all matters of which a record is required to be kept. (2) No information furnished to the director under this section shall be disclosed in a way to divulge the operation of any per…

The license fees to be paid for respective licenses provided for in KRS 260.795, 260.800, and 260.805 shall be per year or any portion of a year with the license year commencing July 1 and ending June 30. No license may be transferred or assigned. The license fees shall be as fol…

(1) For the financing of the producers' share of this program, all handlers who issue payments to Kentucky permitted producers shall deduct an inspection fee at the rate of one-half cent ($0.005) per hundredweight from the producer's payment and shall transfer these funds to the …

Permitted producers' bulk milk tanks shall be accurately calibrated upon installation. Bulk milk tank calibrations shall be evaluated for accuracy after January 1, 2001, by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture or at the request of the director or the permitted producer.

administrative regulations. (1) The director shall enforce, administer, and implement the provisions of KRS 260.775 to 260.845 through the promulgation of administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A. (2) For the purpose of the enforcement of KRS 260.775 to 260.8…

(1) The director may refuse, revoke, suspend, or probate any license or temporary license issued under authority of KRS 260.775 to 260.845; provided, however, that any refusal, revocation, suspension, or probation shall occur only when the licensee has failed to comply with the p…

(1) The Kentucky Milk Handlers Advisory Board shall consist of: (a) The coordinator of the dairy section of the Animal Science Department at the University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture; (b) The chair of the dairy committee of the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation; (c) The br…

(1) The board shall meet once annually, or when called into session by the chair, or upon the request of the director, or upon the request of any two (2) or more members of the board. Six (6) members present at a meeting shall constitute a quorum. (2) The board shall advise the d…

(1) All funds resulting from the payment of license fees, inspection fees, fines, penalty fees, or other charges provided for in KRS 260.775 to 260.845 shall be paid to the director and shall be expended by the director under authority of the board of trustees of the University o…

KRS 260.775 to 260.845 shall be known as the "Kentucky Farm Milk Handlers Law."

As used in KRS 260.850 to 260.869: (1) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture; (2) "Cultivating" means planting, growing, and harvesting a plant or crop; (3) "Department" means the Kentucky Department of Agriculture; (4) "Handling" means p…

It is the declared policy of the Commonwealth that hemp is a viable agricultural crop in the Commonwealth. The purposes of KRS 260.850 to 260.869 are to: (1) Promote the research and study methods of cultivating, processing, and marketing hemp; (2) Promote the expansion of the Co…

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, it is lawful for a licensee, or his or her agent, to cultivate, handle, or process hemp or hemp products in the Commonwealth. (2) It is unlawful for a person who does not hold a license issued by the department, or w…

(1) The Hemp Advisory Board is created for the purpose of providing advice and expertise as may be needed by the department with respect to plans, policies, and procedures applicable to the administration of its respective hemp program. (2) The Hemp Advisory Board shall be attach…

-- Licensure for cultivation, handling, processing, and marketing of hemp. (1) In addition to any other powers vested in it by law, the department shall have the authority and power to promulgate administrative regulations to: (a) License persons who wish to cultivate, handle, pr…

content of more than three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) -- Exception. (1) As used in this section, "location" means a single contiguous parcel of land and any buildings situated thereon. (2) No person shall move or transport, or aid or abet another person in moving or transportin…

penalty authorized -- Exception. (1) The department may temporarily suspend a license up to sixty (60) days if the licensee is alleged to have: (a) Violated any provision of KRS 260.850 to 260.869 or an administrative regulation promulgated under the authority of KRS 260.850 to 2…

(1) The hemp program fund is hereby created as a separate trust fund in the State Treasury. The fund shall consist of amounts received from appropriations, and any other proceeds from gifts, grants, federal funds, application fees, or license fees provided by KRS 260.862, civil p…

Master Settlement Agreement. A person holding a license issued by the department may be eligible to receive funds received by the state under the Master Settlement Agreement and placed in the rural development fund established in KRS 248.655. Effective:March 20, 2017

(1) There is established in the State Treasury a trust and agency fund entitled the industrial hemp program fund, to be administered by the commission for the purpose of covering the costs of the commission and the industrial hemp research program, as approved by the commission. …

(1) The General Assembly recognizes the importance of aquaculture to the agricultural economy of the state. (2) "Aquaculture" means the science, art, and business of producing and raising aquatic organisms under controlled or semicontrolled conditions. (3) The State Department of…

(1) Any person who violates a stop order in violation of KRS 260.550(2) or (3) shall be fined one hundred dollars ($100) for the first offense, be fined two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for the second offense, and have his or her license revoked or suspended or, if the person has…

(1) Any person who violates any provision of KRS 260.785, 260.790, 260.800, 260.805, or 260.809 shall be fined one hundred dollars ($100) for the first violation and not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each subsequent violation. …

Commission. (Effective upon contingency.) Any handler who violates a regulation adopted by the Southern Dairy Compact Commission established in Article III of the Southern Dairy Compact set out in KRS 260.670 shall be subject to a penalty of up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) p…