844 ARTICLE 6 5A.

ARTICLE 65A.

MILK CONTROL.

	1. Definitions. 2. Commission; appointment; qualifi- cations; bond; copies of records. 3. Powers; rules and regulations. 4-7. License and permits; revocation. S. Complaints; appeals. 9. Prices. 10-11. Form of license; schedule of prices. 12. License to be secured each year. 13. Tax on milk; retail license fee. 14. Co-operative associations or groups; agreements. 15. Milk marketing fund.	16. Audit of books. 17. Records to be kept by licensees. 18-19. Applicability of article. 20. Does not supersede other laws. 21. Raw milk. 22. Saving clause. 23. Dealers in business when act be- came effective. 24. For protection of public health and welfare. 25. Expires June 1, 1937. 26. Repeal of inconsistent laws. 27. Cheese and butter exempt.

1935, ch. 310, sec. 1.

1. As used in this Article:

"Commission" means the Maryland Milk Control Commission hereby
created.

"Person" includes individuals, partnerships, associations and corpora-
tions, not excepting cooperative agricultural associations or corporations
wheresoever organized.

"Milk" means the lacteal secretion of a dairy animal or animals, and
includes such secretion when cooled, pasteurized, standardized, or other-
wise processed, with a view to being sold as milk for consumption in fluid
form; or for manufacture into any dairy product for human consumption.

"Market" means any municipal corporation or corporations or unincor-
porated territory in this State, or both, designated by the Commission as
a natural marketing area.

"Health Authorities" includes the State Department of Health, the
Baltimore City Health Department, and the Health Department of the
several counties and incorporated towns in the State.

"Sanitary regulations" includes all laws and ordinances relating to the
production, handling, transportation, distribution and sale of milk, and,
so far as applicable thereto, the regulations of the several departments
and boards referred to under "health authorities. "

"Milk dealer" includes all persons hereinafter defined as distributor,
producer-distributor, distributing broker, and all persons conducting a
retail store as herein defined.