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MO Rev Stat § 264.095 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 264 - Apiaries|Section 264.095 - Powers and duties of director — rulemaking, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1995   264.095. Powers and duties of director — rulemaking, procedure. — 1. The director shall, from time to time, make rules for carrying out the provisions and requirements of sections 264.011 to 264.101, including rules under which inspectors and other employees shall:  (1) Inspect apiaries and equipment associated with apiculture;  (2) Investigate, control, eradicate and prevent the dissemination of honey bee diseases and pests; and  (3) Supervise or cause the treatment, control or destruction of honey bees infected with diseases or pests.  2. The director shall also make rules which establish standards and procedures for determining the compensation and the working conditions for all employees and contract employees. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this chapter shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024. ­­-------- (L. 1985 H.B. 180, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3)
MO Rev Stat § 264.101 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 264 - Apiaries|Section 264.101 - Penalties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1985   264.101. Penalties. — Any person who shall violate any provision or requirement of sections 264.011 to 264.101, or who shall forge, counterfeit, deface, destroy, or wrongfully use any certificate provided for in sections 264.011 to 264.101, shall be deemed guilty of a class A misdemeanor. ­­-------- (L. 1978 S.B. 683 § 10, A.L. 1985 H.B. 180)
MO Rev Stat § 265.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.010 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   265.010. Definitions. — As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meaning indicated:  (1) "Agricultural products" shall include horticultural, viticultural, dairy, bee, and any farm product;  (2) "Bushel", as applied to apples, when sold by the volume shall be 2150.4 cubic inches, and when sold by weight, means forty-eight pounds;  (3) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture of Missouri;  (4) "Grower", as applied to apples, any person owning or operating an orchard and engaged in the production in Missouri of apples for sale;  (5) "Packer", as applied to apples, any person who packs apples for shipment or sale;  (6) "Processing" or "manufacturing", as applied to apples, the commercial drying, dehydrating, canning, pressing, powdering, extracting or use in producing or manufacturing a by-product or manufactured article;  (7) "Shipment" and "shipped", as applied to apples, shall be deemed to take place when the apples are loaded in the railroad car, motor vehicle, boat, wagon, or other conveyance to be transported. Apples being moved from the orchard where grown to a packing house or warehouse within the immediate area of production shall not be deemed a shipment or to be shipped;  (8) "Shipper", as applied to apples, any person who moves apples in the channels of trade, whether retail, wholesale or by consignment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14290, A.L. 1941 p. 305, A. 1949 S.B. 1093)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12628
MO Rev Stat § 265.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.020 - Director to promulgate standards — rulemaking, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1995   265.020. Director to promulgate standards — rulemaking, procedure. — In order to promote, protect, further, and develop the agricultural interests of this state the director is hereby authorized and empowered after investigation and public hearing to fix and promulgate rules for grading and classifying any or all agricultural products grown or produced in this state and to fix and promulgate rules for containers of farm products and change any of them from time to time. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this chapter shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14291, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12629
MO Rev Stat § 265.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.030 - Director to specify dates when standards become effective.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   265.030. Director to specify dates when standards become effective. — In promulgating the standards or any alterations or modifications of such standards the director shall specify the date or dates when the same shall become effective and shall give public notice not less than thirty days in advance of such date or dates by such means as he deems proper, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to employ reasonable methods for diffusing information concerning the standard that may be fixed by him for any agricultural product or container. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14292)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12630  CROSS REFERENCE:  Rules or regulations to be filed in office of the secretary of state, when effective, Chap. 536
MO Rev Stat § 265.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.040 - Authorized to cooperate with United States or any department.

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   265.040. Authorized to cooperate with United States or any department. — The director is authorized to fix and promulgate rules for this state for any agricultural product or container the standard for such product or container which may have been promulgated or announced therefor under the authority of the Congress of the United States, and in carrying out the provisions of this chapter the director is authorized to cooperate with the United States or any department thereof in accomplishing the matters and things provided for herein. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14293, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12631
MO Rev Stat § 265.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.050 - Appointment of agents — bond — action on bond.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   265.050. Appointment of agents — bond — action on bond. — The director may appoint employees and agents to assist in carrying out the provisions of this chapter, and may fix their compensation. The director may require any such employee or agent and any inspector licensed under this chapter to execute and file with him a good and sufficient bond, payable to the state, in such sum, not exceeding one thousand dollars and with such sureties, as he may prescribe, conditioned upon the faithful performance of such employee, agent or licensed inspector of his duties as such employee, agent, or licensed inspector. Any person injured by the failure of such employee, agent or licensed inspector faithfully to perform such duties shall be entitled to sue on such bond in his own name in any court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of such damages as he may have sustained by reason of such failure. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14298)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12636
MO Rev Stat § 265.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.060 - Appointment of inspectors — fees — suspension or revocation of license.

Effective - 28 Aug 1959   265.060. Appointment of inspectors — fees — suspension or revocation of license. — 1. The director, at the request of interested producers, may designate any competent employee or agent of the department of agriculture and may license any other competent person and collect a reasonable fee for such license, to inspect and classify agricultural products in accordance with regulations established for the protection of the consuming public. The director may revoke any license for cause after a hearing or suspend any license temporarily without a hearing.  2. The director may determine the amount needed and collect from the producers sufficient money to defray the shipping point inspection costs, and the general assembly may appropriate funds from general revenue to be used for supervisory costs of the inspection service. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14294, A.L. 1959 H.B. 128)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12632
MO Rev Stat § 265.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.070 - Appeal of inspector's decision — reasonable fee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   265.070. Appeal of inspector's decision — reasonable fee. — Whenever any quantity of any agricultural product shall have been inspected hereunder and a question arises as to whether the certificate issued therefor shows the true grade, classification, quality or condition of such product, any interested person, subject to such regulations as the director may prescribe, may appeal the question to him and he is authorized to cause such investigation to be made and such tests to be applied as he may deem necessary and to determine and issue a finding of the true grade or classification of the product or of the quality or condition thereof. Whenever an appeal shall be taken to the director under this chapter, he shall charge and assess and collect, or cause to be collected, a reasonable fee, to be fixed by him which shall be refunded if the appeal is sustained. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14295)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12633  CROSS REFERENCE:  Administrative procedure and review, Chap. 536
MO Rev Stat § 265.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.080 - Certificate to be prima facie evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   265.080. Certificate to be prima facie evidence. — A certificate when not superseded by a finding on appeal, or a finding on appeal of the grade, classification, quality or condition of any agricultural product, issued under this chapter and all certificates issued under authority of the Congress of the United States relating to the grade, classification, quality or condition of agricultural products shall be accepted in any court of this state as prima facie evidence of the true grade, classification, condition or quality of such agricultural product at the time of its inspection. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14296)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12634
MO Rev Stat § 265.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.110 - Misrepresentation of grade, classification, quality or condition — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   265.110. Misrepresentation of grade, classification, quality or condition — penalty. — If any quantity of any agricultural product shall have been inspected and a certificate issued hereunder showing the grade, classification, quality or condition thereof no person shall represent that the grade, classification, quality or condition of such product at the time and place of such inspection was other than as shown by such certificate. Whenever any standard for the grading or classification of any agricultural product becomes effective under this chapter, it shall be unlawful in or in connection with any transaction or transactions involving such product in commerce subject to the jurisdiction of this state or in any publication in this state of a price or prices for or in connection with such transaction or transactions for any person to indicate the grade of any agricultural product which is of or within the grades fixed in said standard for such product by any name, description or designation or any system of names, descriptions or designations not used in said standard. Whenever any standard for a container for an agricultural product becomes effective under this chapter, no person thereafter shall manufacture for commerce within the jurisdiction of this state, or sell, ship, or offer for sale in such commerce any container, either filled or unfilled, to which the standard is applicable which does not comply with such standard subject to such tolerances as may be permitted under this chapter. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or not more than one hundred dollars. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14300)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12638
MO Rev Stat § 265.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.120 - Rules for grading apples.

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   265.120. Rules for grading apples. — The director shall, as provided in section 265.020, fix and promulgate rules for grading and classifying apples; provided, that such grades shall not conflict with any such grades or standards promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture, except as marketing conditions in Missouri require the establishment of additional state grades. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14301, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52)
MO Rev Stat § 265.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.130 - Apples — how marked — exemptions — penalty for violation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   265.130. Apples — how marked — exemptions — penalty for violation. — All apples which are sold, offered or exposed for sale in Missouri shall be plainly and conspicuously marked with a sign bearing the name of the variety, the minimum size and the grade, and each package of apples which is sold, offered, exposed, or packaged for sale by a grower or packer shall, in addition, be plainly and conspicuously marked with the name and address of the grower or packer. The director shall exempt from the provisions of this section apples which are marked with, and meet the requirements of, grades of the United States Department of Agriculture or well established grades promulgated by other states; provided, that such apples are otherwise marked in accordance with the provisions of this section. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. In addition, any apples found to be offered or exposed for sale in violation of this section may be ordered temporarily withdrawn from sale by the director, pending either informal adjustment according to law between the director or his duly authorized representative, and the person in charge of the apples in question, or the filing of a formal complaint, without undue delay, with the attorney general or prosecuting attorney. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14302, A.L. 1951 p. 305, A.L. 1945 p. 74)
MO Rev Stat § 265.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.140 - Director to enforce — powers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   265.140. Director to enforce — powers. — The director shall be charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and for that purpose shall have the power:  (1) To enter and inspect personally, or through any authorized representative, any place within the state of Missouri where apples are sold, offered or exposed for sale, and to inspect such places and all apples and apple containers found in any such place;  (2) To inspect personally, or through any authorized representative, any records required of Missouri apple growers in connection with the enforcement of this chapter;  (3) To stop any wagon, truck, or other vehicle upon any public street or road or upon any highway of the state for the purpose of inspecting any apples that may be so transported;  (4) To make, publish and enforce such uniform rules and regulations as are necessary for carrying out the provisions of this chapter. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14303, A.L. 1945 p. 74)
MO Rev Stat § 265.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.150 - Merchandising fee imposed — exemptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   265.150. Merchandising fee imposed — exemptions. — There is hereby levied and imposed upon all apples grown in Missouri in 1945 and annually thereafter, a merchandising fee of one cent per bushel whether packed in any style package, loose in baskets, boxes, crates, or any other container, or in bulk; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to apples shipped or sold for processing or manufacturing purposes; and further provided, the provisions of this section shall not be so construed as to apply to apples consumed, processed or manufactured on the premises of the grower; and further provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to cull apples as defined by the director under the provisions of sections 265.020 and 265.120; and further provided, that of each grower's production, not to exceed two hundred bushels of apples shall be exempted from the provisions of this section. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 305 § 14303a, A.L. 1945 p. 74)
MO Rev Stat § 265.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.160 - Fees, when due — installment payments — records and reports of growers — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   265.160. Fees, when due — installment payments — records and reports of growers — penalty. — All fees levied and imposed by sections 265.130 to 265.210 shall be due and payable during the calendar year as follows: Twenty-five percent or more, based on the grower's estimate, prior to October first; fifty percent or more, based on the grower's estimate prior to December first, and twenty-five percent, or the balance, prior to or on December thirty-first. The director shall require that every grower of apples secure a certificate for shipment of apples; provided, that each grower securing a certificate shall be furnished free of charge by the director suitable forms for recording the harvest, use and sale of apples from his orchard. It shall be the duty of every grower to keep a complete record of all apples harvested, used, and shipped from his orchard. A copy of such record as herein required shall be retained by the grower for a period of one year from the date thereof and shall at all times be available for and open to the inspection of the director or his authorized representative. The burden of establishing the accuracy of any such record or copy thereof shall rest on the grower making such record. It shall be the duty of every grower to submit to the director not later than December thirty-first each year a certified summary of apples produced, harvested, used and shipped during the preceding crop season. Such summary shall be entered on forms provided or approved by the director. Any person who shall violate or aid in the violation of any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 305 § 14303b, A.L. 1945 p. 74)
MO Rev Stat § 265.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.170 - Unpaid fees to bear interest — manner of collection.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   265.170. Unpaid fees to bear interest — manner of collection. — Any fee imposed by sections 265.130 to 265.210 and unpaid on the date on which such fee was due and payable, as provided in section 265.160, shall bear interest at the rate of one percent per month from and after such date until payment, plus accrued interest, is received by the director. If, after due notice, any person defaults in any payment of any fee or interest thereon, the amount due shall be collected by civil action in the name of the state of Missouri at the relation of the director, and the person adjudged in default shall pay the cost of such action. The attorney general, at the request of the director, and, if requested by the attorney general, the prosecuting attorney of any county in which a cause of action arose under the provisions of sections 265.130 to 265.210 for the collection of fees due and unpaid, shall forthwith institute proper action in the courts of this state for the collection of fees or interest thereon due under said sections. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 305 § 14303c, A.L. 1945 p. 74)
MO Rev Stat § 265.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.180 - Creation of apple merchandising fund, not transferable.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   265.180. Creation of apple merchandising fund, not transferable. — 1. All moneys received by the director under the provisions of section 265.150 shall be paid to the state treasurer to be credited to the "Apple Merchandising Fund" which is hereby created.  2. All moneys credited to the apple merchandising fund shall be appropriated by the general assembly only for the purposes as herein set forth, to be used exclusively for the administration and enforcement of sections 265.130 to 265.210, including the collection of fees, the payment for personal services and expenses of employees and agents of the director, and the payment of rent, services, materials and supplies necessary to effectuate the purposes and object of sections 265.130 to 265.210.  3. The unexpended balance in the apple merchandising fund at the end of the biennium shall not be transferred to the ordinary revenue fund of the state treasury and accordingly shall be exempt from the provisions of section 33.080 relating to the transfer of funds to the ordinary revenue funds of the state by the state treasurer. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 305 § 14303d, A. 1949 S.B. 1093)
MO Rev Stat § 265.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products|Section 265.190 - Expenditure of moneys.

Effective - 28 Aug 1941   265.190. Expenditure of moneys. — All moneys collected under sections 265.130 to 265.210 shall be expended by the director of the department of agriculture only as authorized in writing by the executive board of the Missouri state horticultural society, as defined in section 262.020, and shall be expended exclusively to administer and enforce sections 265.130 to 265.220, and to effectuate the purposes and objects thereof. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 305 § 14303e)