CHAPTER 4. Inspection Services
Chapter 4 enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.
§§ 33051–33351 · 59 sections
ARTICLE 1. Definitions §§ 33051–33053 · 3 sections
- § 33051 Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
- § 33052 “Eligible list” means the list established by the State Personnel Board pursuant to Section 33111 of persons who are qualified to be employed by the department…
- § 33053 “Established milk inspection area” means an area in which the inspection or grading service is established and conducted by the director and wherein such…
ARTICLE 2. General Provisions §§ 33081–33087 · 7 sections
- § 33081 The director may authorize as many approved milk inspection services as may be necessary to properly carry out the provisions of this division and the…
- § 33082 The director shall supervise the operation of all approved milk inspection services in the enforcement of this division and the regulations which are adopted…
- § 33083 The director may adopt regulations for the proper enforcement of this chapter.
- § 33084 The director, at least once each month, shall report to the Controller the total amount of money which is collected under Section 33294. He or she shall, at…
- § 33085 An advisory committee shall be established to assist the director in the administration of this chapter. The members of the advisory committee shall be…
- § 33086 The members of the advisory committee shall include persons representing producers, milk products plants, approved milk inspection services personnel, and the…
- § 33087 A member of the advisory committee shall not receive a salary. The director may authorize the reimbursement for any actual expenses incurred while engaged in…
ARTICLE 3. Employees §§ 33111–33121 · 9 sections
- § 33111 The State Personnel Board shall hold examinations in various parts of the state for the purpose of determining the qualifications of persons who desire to…
- § 33112 The director shall examine any interested person qualified under Section 33113 for certification as a registered dairy inspector. Such an examination shall be…
- § 33112.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the director shall issue a limited milk inspection certificate to any registered sanitarian employed by…
- § 33113 A person is not eligible to take the examination unless the person possesses one of the following qualifications: (a) Graduation from a four-year college with…
- § 33114 The director shall establish and collect fees for the application and for the examination of persons for the position of registered dairy inspector to cover…
- § 33118 The director shall, from time to time, conduct special refresher courses which shall not exceed five days, at various convenient places in the state for the…
- § 33119 Attendance at such a refresher course shall be mandatory, in the discretion of the director, upon any or all persons who are employed by the department and…
- § 33120 Any person who is employed by the department or any county or city shall be paid his salary or compensation while he is attending such a special refresher…
- § 33121 This article does not apply to any clerical employee, or to any person who is employed in a laboratory.
ARTICLE 4. Designation and Assignment §§ 33141–33151 · 8 sections
- § 33141 If a producer produces market milk within the jurisdiction of an approved milk inspection service, the director, after an investigation and consultation with…
- § 33142 The director, in making the designation and assignment, shall take into consideration, in addition to other matters which are considered, the geographical…
- § 33143 No more than one approved milk inspection service may be designated by the director for any single dairy farm which produces market milk.
- § 33146 Any producer or approved milk inspection service may file with the director a written protest regarding any designation which is made pursuant to Section…
- § 33147 The director may, within 30 days after the receipt of the protest and shall, within 30 days after receipt of a petition, and after at least five days’ written…
- § 33149 The director upon his own motion, after giving at least 10 days written notice to any approved milk inspection service which is concerned, may hold a hearing…
- § 33150 After the hearing, the director may revoke, amend, or retain such designation, designate another approved milk inspection service to perform the inspection as…
- § 33151 Upon the approval in writing of a milk inspection service by the director, the approved milk inspection service shall do all of the following: (a) Grade market…
ARTICLE 5. Establishment of Inspection Service by Director § 33171 · 1 section
- § 33171 In areas in which an approved milk inspection service has not been designated by the director pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 33141), the…
ARTICLE 6. Interagency Contracts § 33201 · 1 section
- § 33201 Counties may, subject to the approval of the director, contract, one with the other, for the maintenance by one, or some of them, of the approved milk…
ARTICLE 7. Permits §§ 33221–33228 · 8 sections
- § 33221 As used in this article, “permit” means a permit that is issued pursuant to Section 33222.
- § 33222 Every person, before engaging in the business of producing market milk or manufacturing milk, shall obtain a permit from the secretary or from the approved…
- § 33223 If a permit is issued by an approved milk inspection service designated by the secretary to a producer of market milk or manufacturing milk, no other permit…
- § 33224 Upon receipt of an application for a permit, the secretary or approved milk inspection service shall cause an investigation to be made of the dairy farm where…
- § 33225 If this division and the standards that are established by or adopted pursuant to the authority that is granted in this division are complied with, a permit…
- § 33226 Every person shall obtain a permit from the secretary before engaging in the business of processing or distributing market milk. Upon receipt of an application…
- § 33227 Each person, before engaging in the transportation of unpackaged market milk or unpackaged market milk products (bulk milk hauler), shall obtain a bulk milk…
- § 33228 (a) Any person, before engaging the business of cleaning or sanitizing bulk milk tanker trucks shall obtain a bulk milk tanker truck cleaning or sanitizing…
ARTICLE 8. Fees Payable to a County §§ 33251–33265 · 11 sections
- § 33251 The county that maintains an approved milk inspection service where an inspection fee is levied and collected shall determine the actual cost of making an…
- § 33252 For the purpose of maintaining an approved milk inspection service, the county may, but is not required to, levy and collect an inspection fee or fees from…
- § 33253 The dairy farm inspection fee shall not exceed the actual cost to the county of making the dairy farm inspection, provided that an additional 15 percent of the…
- § 33254 Any fees levied by an approved milk inspection service for dairy farm inspection shall not exceed the maximum fees provided for state established inspection.
- § 33256 The cost of the inspections may include all directly related costs.
- § 33257 If an approved milk inspection service inspects a dairy farm, the dairy farm inspection fee, if levied, shall be collected from the producer of milk that is…
- § 33261 Charges that are made by any approved milk inspection service for inspection fees are subject to audit by the secretary, and for this purpose the secretary…
- § 33262 Ten percent of the producers within any approved inspection area may file with the secretary a written protest as to the reasonableness of any inspection fee…
- § 33263 The secretary shall, after 30 days’ public notice of the hearing, and after five days’ written notice to any approved milk inspection service that is…
- § 33264 Upon the completion of hearing, the secretary may establish a reasonable fee for the inspection that is the subject of the protest. Thereafter until the order…
- § 33265 A county shall not, through an approved milk inspection service or otherwise, levy or collect any fee or tax for the purpose of inspecting any milk or dairy…
ARTICLE 9. Fees Payable to the Secretary §§ 33291–33298 · 8 sections
- § 33291 Every person that is engaged in the production of milk outside the jurisdiction of an approved milk inspection service and every person engaged in the…
- § 33292 (a) Every milk products plant or milk handler that purchases, or otherwise acquires possession or control of, milk directly from producers shall deduct from…
- § 33293 The inspection fee is payable during the first week of January, April, July, and October of each year.
- § 33294 (a) Every producer shall pay an inspection fee not to exceed twelve cents ($0.12) per hundredweight of the first 482,000 pounds only on milk produced by him or…
- § 33295 The secretary shall fix the inspection fees for each person, as provided for in Section 33291, not to exceed actual directly related costs for inspection. The…
- § 33296 The secretary shall make, and maintain, written findings upon which inspection fees are fixed pursuant to Sections 33294 and 33295. The written findings shall…
- § 33297 Any person subject to inspection fees provided for in Section 33291 may file with the secretary a written protest as to the reasonableness of any inspection…
- § 33298 The secretary shall establish plan review fees for sanitary design and construction review activities relating to milk product plants and frozen milk product…
ARTICLE 10. Inspection of Dairy Farms Producing Manufacturing Milk §§ 33321–33322 · 2 sections
ARTICLE 11. Violations § 33351 · 1 section
- § 33351 It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following: (a) Prevent, interfere with, or attempt to nullify in any way the work of any duly authorized…