2013 Vermont Statutes
Title 06 Agriculture
Chapter 151 SUPERVISION, INSPECTION, AND LICENSING OF DAIRY OPERATIONS
§ 2721 Handlers' licenses

2721. Handlers' licenses

(a) The secretary may classify and issue licenses to milk handlers to carry on dairy product handling businesses including the purchase, distribution, or sale of milk or milk products, processing or manufacturing of milk or milk products, including the pasteurization of frozen dessert mixes, transport of milk and milk products, bargaining and collecting for the sale of milk and milk products, and dealing in or brokering milk or milk products.

(b) A milk handler shall not transact business in the state unless the milk handler secures and holds a handler's license from the secretary. The license shall terminate September 1 each year and shall be procured by August 15 of each year. The secretary shall furnish all forms for applications, licenses, and bonds. At the time the application is delivered to the secretary, the milk handler shall pay a license application fee of $50.00 for an initial application and a license fee based on the following table. For a renewal application, only the fee in the table applies. Out-of-state firms are to use the company's highest total pounds of milk or dairy products bought, sold, packaged, assembled, transported, or processed per production day.

Pounds of milk or dairy License handling fee

products bought, sold, pack-

aged, assembled, transported, or

processed per production day:

500 pounds or less $ 50.00

Over 500 but less than 1,000 pounds $100.00

1,000 to 10,000 pounds per day $175.00

Over 10,000 to 25,000 pounds per day $275.00

Over 25,000 pounds $350.00

Processor fee per pasteurizer $ 50.00

(c) [Deleted.] (1965, No. 175, 17; amended 1969, No. 73, 3, eff. April 18, 1969; 1975, No. 220 (Adj. Sess.), 12; 1977, No. 159 (Adj. Sess.), 1, eff. May 28, 1978; 1987, No. 217 (Adj. Sess.), 1; 1989, No. 257 (Adj. Sess.), 11; 2003, No. 42, 2, eff. May 27, 2003; 2011, No. 33, 7; 2011, No. 39, 1, eff. May 19, 2011.)