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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="16-105" title_number="16" title_name="Maryland Produce Safety Program" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Secretary may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Enter a covered farm, including a farm that has a qualified exemption, at a reasonable time, to inspect farm facilities, covered produce inventory, and any records that are required to be kept under § 16–104 of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Copy any record that is required to be kept under § 16–104 of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Take a reasonable sample of covered produce inventory to determine whether the farm is in compliance with the requirements of the Program; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Enter a farm that claims it is not subject to the requirements of the Program, based on the average annual monetary value of produce sold by the farm during the previous 3–year period, to inspect and verify the farm’s produce sales records.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, if the Secretary finds that a farm is in violation of the requirements of the Program, the Secretary may issue and enforce a written or printed stop–sale order to the farm.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A stop–sale order issued by the Secretary under this subsection shall remain in effect until the Secretary:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Finds the farm to be in compliance with the requirements of the Program; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Provides a written release from the stop–sale order.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
