189.6 - TAKING OF SAMPLES.

        189.6  TAKING OF SAMPLES.
         The department may, without the consent of the owner, examine or
      open any package containing, or believed to contain, any article or
      product which it suspects may be prepared, manufactured, offered, or
      exposed for sale, sold, or held in possession in violation of the
      provisions of this subtitle, excluding chapters 203, 203C, 203D, 207,
      and 208, in order to secure a sample for analysis or examination, and
      the sample and damage to container shall be paid for at the current
      market price out of the contingent fund of the department.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C97, § 2521, 2526; S13, § 2528-b, -f2, 5077-a11, -a22; C24, 27,
      31, 35, 39, § 3034; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79,
      81, § 189.6] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         94 Acts, ch 1023, §22; 2003 Acts, ch 69, §30