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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="4-311.2" title_number="4" title_name="Regulation of Livestock, Poultry Products, and Eggs" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Maryland Egg Law">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, an applicant for registration shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Submit to the Secretary an application on the form that the Secretary provides;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Be in compliance with the federal standards established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under 21 C.F.R. Part 16 and Part 118 for the prevention of Salmonella enteritidis in shell eggs during production, storage, and transportation, as applicable;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Agree to allow the Secretary or the Secretary’s designee to enter the applicant’s premises to determine compliance in accordance with § 4–310(b) of this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Pay to the Secretary the appropriate registration fee established in subsection (c) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A packer or distributor who keeps 3,000 or fewer poultry and who sells or offers or exposes for sale shell eggs only from those poultry shall register with the Secretary, but is exempt from paying any fee required by this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The following persons shall pay to the Secretary the registration fee indicated:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Packer…………………………………………………………...$30; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Distributor…………..…….………………...……..…………..……$30.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
