US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  37
                             FOOD, DRUGS, AND OIL
                                  CHAPTER 10
                          DISCRIMINATION AND UNFAIR
                          COMPETITION IN BUYING AND
                            SELLING DAIRY PRODUCTS
    37-1001.  DISCRIMINATION BY BUYING AT HIGHER PRICE -- PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE
-- GRADES OF CREAM. a. Any person, firm, corporation or other organization,
foreign or domestic, engaged in the business of buying milk, cream or butter
fat for the purpose of manufacture, that shall discriminate between different
sections, communities, towns, villages or cities of this state, by buying such
commodity at a higher price or rate in one (1) section, community, town,
village or city, than is paid for the same commodity by said firm, person,
corporation or other organization in another section, community, town, village
or city, after making due allowance for the difference, if any, in the actual
cost of transportation from the point of purchase to the locality of
manufacture, shall be deemed guilty of unfair discrimination, which is hereby
prohibited and declared unlawful.
    b.  Proof of the buying of any such commodity for the purpose of
manufacture, by any person, firm, corporation or other organization at a
higher price or rate in one (1) section, community, town, village or city of
this state than is paid for the same commodity by the said person, firm,
corporation or other organization in another section, community, town, village
or city in this state after making due allowance for the difference, if any,
in the actual cost of transportation from the point of purchase to the
locality of manufacture, shall constitute prima facie evidence of a violation
of this section.
    c.  Two (2) grades of cream shall be recognized in the enforcement of this
chapter: to be designated as sweet cream and sour cream. Sweet cream within
the meaning of this chapter shall be cream having a clean flavor, not more
than two-tenths per cent (.2%) acidity, and not less than twenty-five per cent
(25%) butter fat. Sour cream within the meaning of this chapter shall be cream
showing more than two-tenths per cent (.2%) acidity or less than twenty-five
per cent (25%) butter fat.