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the promotion of the dairy industry. The State Board of Agriculture may
require the grading of all milk or the pasteurization of any or all milk to
be sold or offered for sale in cities, towns and villages or elsewhere, and
make rules and regulations having the effect of law covering such grading
or pasteurization.

On petition of twenty-five patrons of any dairy, creamery, or cooling
station, the State Board of Agriculture, shall, through its duly authorized
agent, make an inspection of such dairy, creamery or cooling station, in-
cluding the testing and weighing of the milk or cream of each patron.

The State Board of Agriculture shall make such regulations and inspec-
tions of dairies, creameries and cooling stations as it may deem necessary,
for the protection of the public health and the promotion of the dairy
industry.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 27. 1912, sec. 23. 1916, ch. 337.

27. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale as certified milk or
milk products, any milk or milk products that have not been produced
under such rules and regulations as are or may from time to time be ap-
proved by the State Board of Agriculture; and said Board shall make
its rules and regulations for the production of said milk comply with all
the rules and requirements for the production of certified milk as may
from time to time be approved by the American Association of Medical
Milk Commissioners and the Certified Milk Producers Association of
America. Any person, firm or corporation failing to comply with any of
the provisions of this Section or of Section 26 shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five nor
more than fifty dollars for each day on which the offense was committed.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 28. 1924, ch. 351.

28. It shall be unlawful to import into the State of Maryland any
fluid milk that has not been produced, handled and shipped according to
the same standards and under the same conditions applicable to milk pro-
duced in Maryland under the rules and regulations of the municipalities
into which such milk is shipped. Any person, firm or corporation violating
the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine of $50 for the first offense,
and $100 for each subsequent offense.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 29. 1912, sec. 24. 1908, ch. 365, see. 1. 1916, ch. 337.

29. The importation of dairy cows and neat cattle for breeding pur-
poses into the State of Maryland is hereby prohibited, excepting when
such cows and neat cattle are accompanied by a certificate from an inspec-
tor, whose competency and reliability are certified to by the authorities
charged with the control of the diseases of domestic animals in the State
from whence the cattle came, certifying that they have been examined and
subjected to the tuberculin test and are free from disease, and when said
certification is satisfactory to the State Board of Agriculture.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 30. 1912, sec. 25. 1908, ch. 365, sec. 2. 1916, ch. 337.

30. In lieu of an inspection certificate, as above required, the cattle
may be detained at suitable stockyards nearest to the State line on the rail-