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La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4010 Revocation of license
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§4010. Revocation of license The commissioner may revoke any license or permit issued to any person under the provisions of the subpart, after a hearing, upon at least five days' notice stating the grounds for the revocation. The notice may be served personally upon or sent by re…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4011 Use of other than approved method, equipment, glassware, tests or installation prohibited
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§4011. Use of other than approved method, equipment, glassware, tests or installation prohibited A. No person shall use for butterfat analysis in milk or cream any method, equipment, glassware, supplies or electronic analysis device except that which conforms to the United States…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4012 Purchaser shall use only correct weight and measures
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§4012. Purchaser shall use only correct weight and measures No person purchasing milk or cream on the basis of its butterfat content shall use any weight, measure, or butterfat test thereof other than the correct weight, measure, or butterfat test; nor shall such person have in h…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4013 Falsifying tests or weights or measures or records thereof prohibited
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§4013. Falsifying tests or weights or measures or records thereof prohibited No person shall underread, overread, or in any way manipulate any approved butterfat test so that other than the true butterfat percentage is obtained; or any weighing or measuring device so that other t…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4014 Standardization of milk
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§4014. Standardization of milk No person, firm, or corporation shall sell or deliver for consumption fluid milk which contains less than three and one-fourth percent of butterfat; provided, however, that milk furnished military installations or federal hospitals on contract may m…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4015 Penalties
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§4015. Penalties Any person violating any of the provisions of this subpart or the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commissioner shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4021 Southern Dairy Compact; Louisiana's participation
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§4021. Southern Dairy Compact; Louisiana's participation The Southern Dairy Compact, the full text of which is hereinafter set forth and confirmed by the Louisiana legislature, is hereby entered into on behalf of the state of Louisiana. The compact shall become effective when ena…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4022 Louisiana compact delegation members; terms; vacancies; compensation
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§4022. Louisiana compact delegation members; terms; vacancies; compensation A. Five delegates from Louisiana shall be appointed by the commissioner to represent the state on the Southern Dairy Compact Commission, created and provided for in Article III of the compact contained in…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4023 Access to records and information
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§4023. Access to records and information The commissioner may, by lawful means, obtain information pertaining to the dairy industry which he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of the provisions of this Chapter and the Southern Dairy Compact. Such information may be utilize…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4024 Rules and regulations
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§4024. Rules and regulations The commissioner may adopt such rules and regulations, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Chapter and the Southern Dairy Compact. Acts 1997, No. 11, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4025 Penalties for violations
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§4025. Penalties for violations A. No person shall violate this Chapter, the Southern Dairy Compact, or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant to either this Chapter or the compact. B. In addition to any other penalties provided by law, a fine of one thousand dollars may be im…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:41 Definitions
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§41. Definitions For the purposes of this Chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Agricultural commercial operation" means the use of any agricultural facility or agricultural land for agricultural production or agricultural processing and includes the production and…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4101 Findings, policies and purposes
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§4101. Findings, policies and purposes It is hereby declared: (1) That milk is a necessary article of food for human consumption. (2) That an adequate supply of good quality dairy products at fair and reasonable prices is essential to the public health and welfare. (3) That milk …
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4102 Definitions
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§4102. Definitions As used in this Subpart, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Milk" means the lacteal secretion of one or more cows (including such secretions when raw, cooled, pasteurized, standardized, homogenized, recombined, or concentrated) which meets applicable r…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4103 Production marketing areas
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§4103. Production marketing areas The commissioner shall establish production marketing areas, shall describe the territorial extent thereof, and shall designate the same by name or number. The commissioner may increase or decrease the number of production marketing areas, combin…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4104 Production stabilization plans
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§4104. Production stabilization plans A.(1) The commissioner shall issue for each production marketing area a production stabilization plan that shall provide comprehensive regulation of the marketing of bulk milk by dairy farmers and the acquisition of bulk milk by processors. E…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4105 Sales of dairy products not subject to price regulation
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§4105. Sales of dairy products not subject to price regulation Sales of all dairy products covered by this Subpart by retailers, distributors, and processors shall not be subject to price regulation; in no event shall the Dairy Stabilization Board have power or authority to regul…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4106 Dairy Stabilization Board
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§4106. Dairy Stabilization Board A. There is hereby created the Dairy Stabilization Board to be composed of eight members as follows: the governor shall appoint two milk producers, one wholesale grocer, one processor, one retailer, and three consumers. No consumer member shall be…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4107 Compensation, officers, quorum, staff
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§4107. Compensation, officers, quorum, staff A. The members of the board shall receive a per diem of thirty dollars for each day spent in attending hearings held by the board and thirty dollars per day for each day spent in attending meetings of the board or in performing such du…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4108 Disruptive trade practices
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§4108. Disruptive trade practices A. Unfair methods of competition, unfair or deceptive acts or practices and disruptive trade practices are hereby declared unlawful with respect to the sale of milk and milk products. B. The board is hereby empowered and directed to prevent perso…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4109 Licenses
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§4109. Licenses A. It shall be unlawful for a processor to buy bulk milk without being licensed as a processor by the commissioner if such processor: (1) Operates a processing plant located within the State of Louisiana; or (2) Sells dairy products to a retailer or a distributor …
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4110 Access to records
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§4110. Access to records Any authorized representative of the board or of the commissioner shall have access to, and may enter at all reasonable hours, all places of business operated by licensees where bulk milk or dairy products are purchased, stored, processed, manufactured, o…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4111 Assessments
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§4111. Assessments A. In order to obtain funds for the administration and enforcement of the regulations and production stabilization plans issued by him pursuant to this Subpart and for the administration and enforcement of that portion of this Subpart for which he is made respo…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4113 Regulation of vertical integration
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§4113. Regulation of vertical integration The commissioner shall be authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to control vertical integration which is the entry of food chain stores into the dairy processing business. In addition to such rules and regulations vertical integr…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4114 Modification of commissioner or board action
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§4114. Modification of commissioner or board action A. Any person subject to an order, directive, rule, regulation or other result of the commissioner's action or the board's action may file a written petition with the administrative agency, stating that such order, directive, ru…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4116 Penalties for violation
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§4116. Penalties for violation A. Violation of this sub-part shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars in the discretion of the court. Each day's violation shall constitute a separate offense. In addition to the penalties herein provided, vio…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4117 Construction
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§4117. Construction The authority of the commissioner to regulate bulk milk and of the board to regulate dairy products moving in interstate commerce shall be construed to be as great as, but not to exceed, the limits imposed by the United States Constitution. Added by Acts 1974,…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4151 Short title
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§4151. Short title This Part may be cited as the "Dairy Industry Promotion Law". Added by Acts 1983, No. 526, §1, eff. July 8, 1983; Acts 2009, No. 24, §8L, eff. June 12, 2009.
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4152 Declaration of legislative findings and intent
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§4152. Declaration of legislative findings and intent A. The legislature finds that: (1) The dairy industry is a paramount agricultural industry affecting the health and welfare of the citizens of this state. (2) In order to insure the continuing availability of a sufficient quan…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4153 Definitions
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§4153. Definitions As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section: (1) "Board" means the Dairy Industry Promotion Board established in R.S. 3:4154. (2) "Commissioner" means the Louisiana commissioner of agriculture and forestry.…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4154 Dairy Industry Promotion Board
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§4154. Dairy Industry Promotion Board A. The Dairy Industry Promotion Board is hereby created within the Department of Agriculture and Forestry and shall consist of nine members, eight of whom shall be appointed by the commissioner from two areas of the state as follows: (1) Stat…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4155 Officers and employees
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§4155. Officers and employees A. At the first meeting of the board, the members shall elect from their membership a chairman, vice chairman, and such other officers as the board may deem advisable. Thereafter, officers shall be elected during the board's first regular meeting dur…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4156 Powers and duties of the board
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§4156. Powers and duties of the board The board may: (1) Adopt rules and regulations for the administration of this Part. All rules shall be adopted in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. (2) Establish and impose assessments on the sale of milk solids, milk fats, an…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4157 Powers and duties of the commissioner
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§4157. Powers and duties of the commissioner A. The commissioner shall administer and enforce the provisions of this Part in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board. In the administration and enforcement of this Part, the commissioner, or his duly authorized ag…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4159 Assessment
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§4159. Assessment A. The board is hereby authorized to levy an assessment not to exceed ten cents per hundredweight, or equivalent thereof, on all milk solids, milk fats, or fluid milk components sold. The assessment shall be due and payable at the first point of sale. The assess…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4160 Failure to pay assessment; penalty
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§4160. Failure to pay assessment; penalty A. Each dairy cooperative association, processor, or distributor who fails to file any report required by the board or to pay the assessment within the time prescribed by this Part shall forfeit to the commissioner the amount of the asses…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4161 Disposition of assessments
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§4161. Disposition of assessments A. All funds derived from assessments imposed under this Part shall be used for the operational and promotional expenses of the board. The board shall control its own funds subject to the budgetary review of the commissioner. B. The board may sel…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4162 Confidentiality of information
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§4162. Confidentiality of information Information which is obtained by any person pursuant to this Part is confidential and shall not be disclosed to any other person except to a person with the same right to obtain the information or any attorney employed to give legal advice up…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:42 Powers of the commissioner
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§42. Powers of the commissioner A. The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this Chapter, including but not limited to rules and regulations governing the registration of unmanned aerial systems used in the course of agricultural commercia…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4201 RS 3:4201
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§4201 eff. until contingency in Acts 2026, No. 555 is met. §4201. Definitions As used in this Chapter, except as otherwise specified, the following terms shall have the meanings stated below: (1) The term "commissioner" means the "Commissioner, Louisiana Department of Agriculture…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4202 Objective
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§4202. Objective It is the objective of this law to provide meat and poultry products inspection programs that will impose and enforce requirements with respect to intrastate operations and commerce that are at least equal to those imposed and enforced under the Federal Meat Insp…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4203 Antemortem inspection and humane methods of slaughter
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§4203. Antemortem inspection and humane methods of slaughter A. For the purpose of preventing the use in intrastate commerce, as hereinafter provided, of meat and meat food products which are adulterated, the commissioner shall cause to be made, by inspectors appointed for that p…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4204 Postmortem inspection
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§4204. Postmortem inspection For the purposes hereinbefore set forth the commissioner shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose, as hereinafter provided, a postmortem examination and inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of all cattle, sheep, poultry…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4205 Reinspection upon reentry
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§4205. Reinspection upon reentry The foregoing provisions shall apply to all carcasses or parts of carcasses of cattle, sheep, poultry, swine, goats, horses, mules and other equines or the meat or meat products or poultry products thereof, capable of use as human food, which may …
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4206 Inspected and passed or condemned
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§4206. Inspected and passed or condemned For the purposes hereinbefore set forth the commissioner shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose an examination and inspection of all meat food products and poultry products prepared in any slaughtering, meat-cannin…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4207 Labeling
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§4207. Labeling A. When any meat or meat food product or poultry product prepared for intrastate commerce which has been inspected as hereinbefore provided and marked "Louisiana Inspected and Passed" shall be placed or packed in any can, pot, tin, canvas, or other receptacle or c…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4208 Sanitation
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§4208. Sanitation The commissioner shall cause to be made, by experts in sanitation, or other competent inspectors, such inspection of all slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering or similar establishments in which cattle, sheep, poultry, swine, goats, horses, mule…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4209 Daytime or nighttime
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§4209. Daytime or nighttime The commissioner shall cause an examination and inspection of all cattle, sheep, poultry, swine, goats, horses, mules and other equines, slaughtered and the meat and meat food products prepared in the establishments hereinbefore described for the purpo…
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4210 Prohibitions
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§4210. Prohibitions No person, firm or corporation shall, with respect to any cattle, sheep, poultry, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines, or any carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat products of any such animals: (1) Slaughter any such animals or prepare any such …
La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4210.1 1 eff
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§4210.1 eff. upon the contingency in Acts 2026, No. 555 being met. §4210.1. Cell cultured food products; prohibition A. No person, firm, or corporation shall manufacture for sale, sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribute any cell cultured food product in this state. B. No pers…
