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20-59-202. Penalties.
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20-59-202. Penalties.
Any person, firm, or corporation shall be guilty of a violation and shall be fined a sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300) if that person, firm, or corporation shall:
(1) Hinder, obstruct, or in any way interfere with the Secretary of the Department of Health or his or her deputies while discharging the duties of inspection;
(2) Obstruct or hinder in any way the secretary from carrying out the full meaning and intent of this subchapter;
(3) Refuse or fail to make the reports provided for by §§ 20-59-206 — 20-59-211 and 20-59-214 — 20-59-246;
(4) Refuse or neglect to conform to the rules of the Department of Health that have been published as provided in this subchapter regarding the care or condition of any animal kept for dairy purposes or for the sanitary conditions of any room, building, or place where dairy products are kept either for storage or for the purpose of sale and distribution; or
(5) Sell, exhibit, or offer for sale any dairy product that is adulterated.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-59-202
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20-59-202. Penalties.
Any person, firm, or corporation shall be guilty of a violation and shall be fined a sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300) if that person, firm, or corporation shall:
(1) Hinder, obstruct, or in any way interfere with the Secretary of the Department of Health or his or her deputies while discharging the duties of inspection;
(2) Obstruct or hinder in any way the secretary from carrying out the full meaning and intent of this subchapter;
(3) Refuse or fail to make the reports provided for by §§ 20-59-206 — 20-59-211 and 20-59-214 — 20-59-246;
(4) Refuse or neglect to conform to the rules of the Department of Health that have been published as provided in this subchapter regarding the care or condition of any animal kept for dairy purposes or for the sanitary conditions of any room, building, or place where dairy products are kept either for storage or for the purpose of sale and distribution; or
(5) Sell, exhibit, or offer for sale any dairy product that is adulterated.
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20-59-206. Dairy plant license.
(a) A dairy products plant manufacturing, processing, or packaging any dairy products other than those listed in § 20-59-207 as frozen desserts shall be required to have a dairy plant license.
(b) Every person buying or receiving milk, cream, or dairy products for manufacturing, processing, or packaging shall be required to procure from the Secretary of the Department of Health an annual dairy plant license for each location where milk, cream, or dairy products are received for the purpose of manufacturing, processing, or packaging.
(c) License fees for plant licenses shall be as follows:
(1) For a plant purchasing fluid milk, the fee shall be based on the pounds of fluid milk received the previous year:
Up to and including 5,000,000 lbs. milk $ 100.00 5,000,001 — 15,000,000 lbs. 200.00 15,000,001 — 25,000,000 lbs. 400.00 25,000,001 — 40,000,000 lbs. 600.00 40,000,001 — 60,000,000 lbs. 800.00 60,000,001 lbs. and up 1,000.00
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(2) For a plant receiving cream, the fee shall be based on pounds of butterfat received the previous fiscal year:
Up to and including 200,000 lbs. butterfat $ 100.00 200,001 — 400,000 lbs. 200.00 400,001 — 600,000 lbs. 400.00 600,001 — 1,000,000 lbs. 600.00 1,000,001 lbs. and up 800.00
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Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-59-206
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20-59-211. Milk tester license and fee.
(a) Every person receiving or buying milk or cream on the basis of its chemical or physical constituents shall be, or have in his or her employ, a licensed milk tester to make the official analysis, and no other person shall be allowed to make the tests in any creamery, cheese factory, milk depot, milk plant, ice cream factory, milk condensery, or similar plant where milk or cream is bought or received on a basis of its chemical or physical constituents.
(b) Application to become a licensed milk tester shall be made to the Secretary of the Department of Health upon such forms as the secretary may prescribe.
(c) All licenses shall expire on the next succeeding April 1, and the fee shall be ten dollars ($10.00). The required fee shall accompany the application.
(d) If the applicant shall be found upon examination to be qualified and competent, the secretary shall issue to him or her a license.
(e) Licensed testers are also qualified and permitted to act as samplers.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-59-211
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-59-211. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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20-59-214. Unlawful acts — Insanitary plants.
It shall be unlawful to handle, process, freeze, or manufacture milk and dairy products except in sanitary dairy products plants and under sanitary conditions. Any dairy product plant in which dairy products of any kind are manufactured or any store or salesroom, excepting a store or salesroom where milk or milk products are sold at retail in final packaged form, depot, or other place where milk or any product of milk is handled or kept for sale shall be sanitary. Dairy products plants shall be considered insanitary:
(1) When milk, cream, or any product of either is received, purchased, or sold that does not meet the sanitary requirements set forth in this subchapter;
(2) When the utensils or apparatus that come in contact with milk or its products are not surfaced with glass, stoneware, glazed metal, tin, or other noncorrodible material and are not taken apart and thoroughly washed and sterilized by means of boiling water or super-heated steam or other means equally effective as proved by AOAC International or the American Dairy Science Association. This must be done immediately following the completion of any processing operation or immediately following continued processing operations, and the utensils or apparatus must be suitably stored while not in use in such manner as to prevent contamination and sterilized upon reassembling just before the next day's operations. A plant shall also be considered insanitary if the cans or containers in which the milk, cream, or products of either are received, transported, or delivered are not thoroughly washed after emptying and before being sent out to be used again, or if any containers, utensils, apparatus, or equipment is used for any purpose other than that of handling milk
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-59-214
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-59-214. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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20-59-246. Manufacturing milk permit.
(a) Every dairy which produces milk or cream to be used for manufacturing purposes shall be required to procure from the Secretary of the Department of Health a manufacturing milk permit.
(b) Any dairy may obtain a manufacturing milk permit by paying an annual permit fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to the Department of Health and by meeting the minimum requirements of the Rules Pertaining to Milk for Manufacturing Purposes.
(c) Permit fees shall be due by June 30 of each year. Grade “A” dairies with suspended permits and selling milk for manufacturing purposes will be given a ninety-day exemption from the requirement of obtaining a manufacturing milk permit if they meet the requirements of a manufactured milk producer.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-59-246
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-59-246. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.