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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970. IS HEREBY DECLARED TO BE AN EMERGENCY
MEASURE AND NECESSARY FOR THE IMMEDIATE PRES-
ERVATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY AND
HAVING PASSED BY A YEA AND NAY VOTE SUPPORTED
BY THREE-FIFTHS OF ALL THE MEMBERS ELECTED TO
EACH OF THE TWO HOUSES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
THE SAME SHALL TAKE EFFECT FROM THE DATE OF ITS
PASSAGE.

Approved May 21, 1970.

CHAPTER 735
(House Bill 1167)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 85 and
86 of Article 97 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Sup-
plement) , title "Weights and Measures," subtitle "Milk and other
Fluid Dairy Products—Cost," providing for the purchase from a
cooperative association and for the receiving, weighing, measuring,
sampling and testing of milk or other fluid dairy products.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 85 and 86 of Article 97 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1969 Supplement), title "Weights and Measures," sub-
title "Milk and other Fluid Dairy Products—Cost," be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

85.

When used in this subtitle:

1.    "Maryland State Board of Agriculture" is the Board of Re-
gents of the University of Maryland as established by the General
Assembly in a law enacted in 1908 and amended in 1916 and 1941.

2.    "Person" shall include an individual, a partnership, corpora-
tion, company, society, or cooperative association.

3.    "Producer" is any person who owns, controls or operates a
dairy herd for the production of milk to be sold or offered for sale.

4.    "Receiving station" is any building, milk plant, or mobile unit
where milk or other fluid dairy products are received from the pro-
ducer.

5.    "Purchaser" is the person who pays the producer or the person
who pays a cooperative association representing such producers for
the milk or other fluid dairy products, [and is responsible for all the
records pertaining to the weights, measures and tests which are
used as a basis for payment of milk or other fluid dairy products]

6.    "Sample" is that portion of the producer's shipment that is
drawn and placed into an approved container and used for an analy-
sis of milk constituent content on which payment to the producer
may be based.