TITLE 21 AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING

CHAPTER 34 DAIRY AND EGG PRODUCERS

PART 7 EGG INSPECTION FEES

21.34.7.1 ISSUING AGENCY: New Mexico State University, New Mexico Department of Agriculture

[7/1/97; 21.34.7.1 NMAC - Rn & A, 21 NMAC 34.7.1, 05/29/09]

[MSC 3189, P. O. Box 30005, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8005, Telephone: (575) 646-3007]

21.34.7.2 SCOPE: All producers, dealers and retailers of shell eggs sold or offered for sale in New Mexico.

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21.34.7.3 STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Granted to the board of regents of New Mexico state university, under the Egg Grading Act, Chapter 25, Article 6, Sections 1 through 16, New Mexico Statutes Annotated, 1978 Compilation.

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21.34.7.4 DURATION: Permanent

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21.34.7.5 EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 1997

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21.34.7.6 OBJECTIVE: This part establishes the inspection fee on eggs sold to the retailer or to the consumer.

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21.34.7.7 DEFINITIONS: "Egg dealer" means any person, firm, partnership or corporation that buys eggs directly from the farmers or from any other source for the purpose of reselling them at wholesale.

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21.34.7.8 [RESERVED]

21.34.7.9 EGG INSPECTION FEE:

A. The inspection fee on eggs sold in New Mexico to the retailer or to the consumer shall be twelve cents (.12) per case of thirty (30) dozen.

B. The fee shall be paid by the egg dealer or producer who packages the eggs for sale to the retailer or consumer.

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21.34.7.10 [RESERVED]

HISTORY OF 21.34.7 NMAC:

Pre-NMAC History: The material in this part was derived from that previously filed with the State Records Center and Archives under:

NMDA Rule No. DOA 71-2, Regulatory Order No. 2, Egg Inspection Fees, filed 5/19/71.

NMDA Rule No. 83-4, Egg Inspection Fees, filed 5/12/83.

NMDA Rule No. 85-7, Egg Inspection Fees, filed 9/24/85.

History of Repealed Material: [RESERVED]