2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 3:405 — General authority of commission

§405.  General authority of commission

The commission may:

(1)  Adopt regulations necessary to provide for the establishment of state grades for farm products, fruits, and vegetables.

(2)  Enter into co-operative agreements with the United States Department of Agriculture or any of its subdivisions.

(3)  Promulgate and enforce regulations, make inspections, and perform other acts necessary to control the classification, inspection, grading, marking of containers, and marketing of farm products, fruits and vegetables.

(4)  Promulgate regulations prohibiting the transportation by truck, carriers, or vessels of any fruit or vegetables unless the products have been inspected by an authorized inspector who has issued a certificate of inspection showing the grades or classification of the products.  The requirement of inspection shall not apply to fruits and vegetables when trucked by the farmer-producer of them nor to fruits and vegetables being collected for delivery to an assembly or packing shed where an authorized inspector is stationed.

(5)  Prohibit the packing, offering, or consigning for sale, or selling of farm products, fruits, and vegetables in the state unless the products conform to the regulations adopted by the commission.

(6)  Regulate the packing of farm products, fruits, and vegetables and the containers of such products in accordance with rules of the agricultural marketing service.

(7)  Prohibit the mislabeling of containers or displays of farm products, fruits, or vegetables so as to conceal the true grades of the products.

(8)  Prohibit the shipment into the state of farm products, fruits, or vegetables and the offering for sale of the products without the products first having been inspected and classified according to the regulations of the commission.

(9)  Employ such qualified personnel and purchase such equipment as may be required in the execution of the powers and duties conferred and imposed upon it.

(10)  Perform any acts deemed necessary, legal, and proper to carry out the duties and responsibilities imposed upon it by this Part, and in pursuance of the authority granted promulgate such regulations as may be required and deemed advisable in accordance with law.

Acts 1978, No. 242, §1.