Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-05-06

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stickers and the sale CT permits
shall be promptly transmitted
through the director to the state
treasurer. All such fees are hereby
appropriated to the director for SAL
aries and other expenses incurred
in connection with the enforcement
OF this act, subject to the provisions
OF Laws 1925, Chapter 1926, and acts
amendatory thereof"
Approved April 26, 1897.
CHAPTEK 471-S. E.sNo.s1A97
A BILL
TOR AN ACT relating u the grad
Ing, Gambling, purchase and sale
OF eggs and egg products, and
providing for the regulation of
the business of breaking eggs for
resale; providing for the pro-
curement of license to conduct
such business; providing for the
establishment of rules and regu-
lations to carry out the purposes
OF this act; and providing penal
ties for violations hereof.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Minnesota:
Section /. No person shall en-
gage in the business of buying,
selling. dealing in or trading in
eggs without first having obtained
from the Department of Agricul-
ture, Dairy and Foods, hereinafter
called the department, an egg
Gambling license to conduct such
business. Such license shall be is
sued upon proper application and
the payment of one dollar as a Ii
cense fee. All licenses so issued
shall expire upon the first day of
March next following the issuance
thereof, but may be renewed from
time to time for additional periods
OF one year upon presentation to
the department of proper applica-
ton therefor and the payment of
similar license fee.
Section 2. No person shall sell,
offer or expose for sale, or have in
his possession for sale, any egg un-
fit for human food, unless the
same is broken and then denatured
so that it cannot be used for such
purpose, except that eggs in I'M
broken, artifically colored shells to
be sold for animal food only under
direct supervision of the depart
ment, may be kept for sale and sold
for such purposes. For the pur-
poses of this act, an egg shall be
deemed unfit for human food if it
be added or mouldy, possess a
black rot, white rot, or blood
ring or blood spot; or if it has an
adherent yolk, or a bloody or green
white, or if it be incubated one day
or more; or if it consists in whole
or in part Of filthy, decomposed
or putrid substance.
Section 3. No dealer, in buying or
selling eggs, shall take or give a
greater or less dockage for eggs I'M
fit for human food as herein de-
fined, than the actual dockage as
determined by the correct Gambling
of the eggs purchased or sold, nor
shall he undergrade eggs purchased
nor overgrade eggs sold as such
grading is determined and classified
from time to time by the depart
ment, and every such dealer shall
keep such Gambling records as may
be required by the rules and regu-
lations of the department., which
records shall be open at all time
for department examination. The
department shall be charged with
the enforcement of this act, and
shall have the authority to promul-
gate all such rules and regulations
as are necessary to the enforcement
thereof. Provided however, that
nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to make the grading of eggs
compulsory.
Section 4. There shall be placed
on the top layer under the top fiat
of each case of candled eggs, and
one attached to the end of the
case, by the person Gambling the
same a Gambling certificate. The
certificate shall be in such form as
the department may by regulation
prescribe. Such certificate shall
show the name of the state, the date
of Gambling of the eggs contained in
the case in which it is placed with
the statement of the grade thereof,
over the initials or number of the
Gambler, and the name and license
number of the dealer.
Section S. No person shall en-
gage in the business of breaking
eggs for resale without first having
secured from the department of
agriculture license to conduct such
business, such license to be issued
upon proper application and the
payment of fifty dollars as license
fee. All licenses so issued shall ex-
pire on the first day of March next
following the issuance thereof, but
may be renewed from time to time
for additional periods of one year
upon presentation of proper appli-
cation therefor and the payment of
a similar license fee. The licensee
shall at all times comply with the
rules and regulations of the depart
ment in respect to the conduct of
such business and any violation of
the rules and regulations so estab-
lished shall be cause for revocation
of such license upon notice and aft
err hearing. upon proper charges
and specifications, filed with the
department and served upon the
licensee.
Section 6. The department is
hereby vested with the power and
authority to supervise, regulate and
make reasonable rules and regula-
lions not inconsistent with the law,
relative to grading, Gambling, break
ing, purchasing and selling of eggs
and egg products for the purpose
of preserving and protecting the
public health. In addition hereto,