Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 2 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Division 80 - State Milk Board › Chapter 6 - Requirements for the Missouri Dairy Law › Section 2 CSR 80-6.041 - Dairy Manufacturing Plant, Dairy Manufacturing Farm, and Personnel Licensure

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: The purpose of this amendment is to update
				  wording.
(1) It is unlawful
				for any person to operate a dairy manufacturing plant, receiving station, to
				buy milk or cream from Missouri producers, or to perform the duties of
				fieldman, grader, or bulk milk truck operator without a license.
(A) A dairy manufacturing plant shall be
				issued a license upon satisfactory application and payment of the annual
				license fee to the State Milk Board. The license fee shall be based on annual
				butterfat or milk purchased from producers, or in the event milk or but-terfat
				purchases cannot serve as a basis, the amount of milk, figured at the
				approximate average butterfat test of all milk marketed, that is required to
				produce the total pound volume of production during the past twelve (12) months
				ending June 30 as follows:
1. For any dairy
				manufacturing plant purchasing milk or milk products from Missouri, one hundred
				dollars ($100); and for each 1,400,000 pounds of milk purchased, five dollars
				($5);
2. For any dairy
				manufacturing plant or buyer whose license is based on total pound volume of
				production of one hundred thousand (100,000) pounds or less, in this rule
				considered the equivalent of one (1) million pounds of milk, one hundred
				dollars ($100); for each additional 1,400,000 pounds of milk, five dollars
				($5). The total volume is not construed to mean or include volume of products
				processed for the Commodity Credit Corporation by contract or volume of
				prepackaged cheese where basic form has not been changed;
3. For new dairy manufacturing plants where
				volume of the twelve (12) months previous to June 30 has not been established,
				the fee shall be five hundred dollars ($500) and include site inspection,
				construction plan and label approval, inspections, and license to operate.
				License shall expire June 30;
4.
				The State Milk Board, or its agent, shall have the authority to examine the
				buying and production records of any dairy products manufacturing plant for
				verification of the butterfat tonnage purchased at the plant, or verification
				of total pound volume of production manufactured or processed at the plant, at
				any reasonable time that the State Milk Board shall elect to make the
				examination. Butterfat or milk volume should be reported so as not to include
				any butterfat or milk volume the second time due to transfer or sale from one
				(1) plant to another;
5. A dairy
				products manufacturing plant license shall not be transferable and shall not be
				movable from one (1) city or town to another city or town, but with the consent
				of the State Milk Board may be moved from one (1) location to another location
				in the same city or town; and
6.
				When a dairy products manufacturing plant licensed as described in this rule
				ceases to receive milk, process milk, or both, for thirty (30) consecutive days
				or longer, its dairy manufacturing plant license shall be automatically
				terminated with no refund of licensing fee. Prior to resumption of operations,
				reapplication shall be made for licensing and a sanitation inspection of plant
				facilities showing satisfactory compliance shall be conducted by a
				representative of the State Milk Board prior to authorizing a new license. New
				licenses issued as described shall require a license fee of one hundred dollars
				($100) and shall expire June 30, if the plant has continuous
				operation.