Sec. 22-34. Products sold under names designated by commissioner.
Sec. 22-34. Products sold under names designated by commissioner. No person
shall use any words, titles or names designated by the Commissioner of Agriculture,
under the provisions of sections 22-27, 22-28 and 22-29, subsection (b) of section 22-31 and section 22-33, for use in grading or marketing of farm products, unless the
products which he is identifying, advertising, designating or describing thereby fully
meet the requirements of the official grade indicated by such words, titles or names. If,
in the opinion of the Commissioner of Agriculture or his representative, any lot or lots
of such products so identified, advertised, designated or described are not of the grade
indicated, said commissioner shall cause inspections thereof to be made by regularly
appointed inspectors for the purpose of determining the actual grade of such products.
Any person, firm or corporation which violates any provision of this section shall be
fined not more than fifty dollars for the first offense and not more than two hundred
dollars for each subsequent offense.
(1949 Rev., S. 3072; 1959, P.A. 412, S. 10; 637, S. 2; 1961, P.A. 67; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 446, 448; P.A. 85-204, S. 4,
14; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(e); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: 1959 acts replaced "sections 22-27 to 22-33, inclusive" with specific list of applicable sections and transferred
inspection power from agriculture commissioner to commissioner of consumer protection, replacing remaining reference
to commissioner of agriculture with commissioner of agriculture, conservation and natural resources; 1961 act replaced
commissioner of agriculture, conservation and natural resources with commissioner of agriculture and natural resources;
1971 act replaced commissioner of agriculture and natural resources with commissioner of agriculture; P.A. 85-204 transferred authority to cause inspections from the commissioner of consumer protection to the commissioner of agriculture;
June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Agriculture with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer
Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the
merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.