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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="21-416" title_number="21" title_name="Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Milk Products">
  <level label="a">
    <text>While it is effective, a bobtailer permit authorizes the holder, on a Grade A milk route that the holder operates or controls, to distribute Grade A pasteurized milk products that the holder purchased from a Grade A distributor or a Grade A milk processor.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>While it is effective, a certified industry dairy farm inspector permit authorizes the holder to inspect dairy farms in accordance with this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>While it is effective, a distribution station permit authorizes the holder, for redistribution and sale, whether from a fixed location or from a vehicle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To receive Grade A pasteurized milk products;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To store Grade A pasteurized milk products; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>To transfer Grade A pasteurized milk products for redistribution and sale.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>While it is effective, a milk processor permit authorizes the holder:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>To collect raw milk;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>To handle raw milk;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>To process raw milk;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>To pasteurize raw milk;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>To store pasteurized milk;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>To bottle or package pasteurized milk;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>To prepare pasteurized milk for distribution; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>To distribute pasteurized milk.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>While it is effective, a milk processor – farmstead cheese producer permit authorizes the holder:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>To perform all the functions set forth in paragraph (1) of this subsection; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>To produce farmstead cheese.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>While it is effective, a milk producer permit authorizes the holder:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To operate a dairy farm; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To sell raw milk from the dairy farm to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A receiving station;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A transfer station; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A milk plant.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>While it is effective, a bulk milk hauler/sampler permit authorizes the holder, while operating a milk tank truck:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To receive raw milk products from a milk producer, milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To transport raw milk products that have been received from a milk producer, milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>To deliver raw milk products that have been received from a milk producer, milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>While it is effective, a receiving station permit authorizes the holder:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To collect raw milk;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To cool raw milk;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>To process raw milk;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>To store raw milk; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>To prepare raw milk for delivery to a milk plant.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>While it is effective, a transfer station permit authorizes the holder to operate a place where raw milk is transferred between milk tank trucks for eventual delivery to a milk plant.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>A permittee authorized to perform a function under this subtitle shall only exercise that authority as to the classification for which it is designated, except that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Unless otherwise specified in this subtitle, a milk producer permittee with a Grade A classification authorized to perform a function under this subtitle may exercise that authority for manufactured milk; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A milk processor, receiving station, or transfer station with a manufactured milk classification may exercise that authority using Grade A raw milk.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>While it is effective, a milk transportation company permit authorizes the holder to operate one or more milk tank trucks.</text>
  </level>
</section>
