N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 54: Regulations in regard to manufactories, plants or places where milk or cream is brought or received

§ 54. Regulations in regard to manufactories, plants or places where

milk or cream is brought or received. No person shall sell, supply or

bring to any butter or cheese factory or to any plant or place which

manufactures a food product from milk or which ships or sells milk for

consumption any milk diluted with water, or any unclean, impure,

unhealthy, adulterated or unwholesome milk, or milk from which any of

the cream has been taken, except pure skim milk to skim-cheese

factories. No person shall sell, supply or bring to be manufactured to

any butter or cheese factory or to any plant or place which manufactures

a food product from milk or which ships or sells milk for consumption

any milk that is sour or from which has been kept back any part of the

milk commonly known as strippings, except pure skim milk to skim-cheese

factories. The owner or proprietor or the person having charge of any

such manufactory, plant or place where milk is received for any such

purpose, not buying all the milk used by him, shall not use for his own

benefit, or allow any of his employees or any other person to use for

his own benefit, any milk, cream, butter or cheese or any other product

thereof, brought to such factory, without the consent of the owners of

such milk or the products thereof. Every such manufactory, plant or

place not buying all the milk used, shall keep a correct account of all

the milk or cream daily received, of the number of packages of butter

and cheese made each day, and the number of packages and aggregate

weight of cheese and butter disposed of each day; which account shall be

open to inspection to any person who delivers milk to such manufactory,

plant or place. Every purchaser or receiver of milk from the producer

thereof, for manufacturing purposes or for reselling the same, shall on

written request therefor, tender daily thereafter at time of delivery to

such producer, or to the person delivering such milk to such purchaser

in behalf of such producer, a written statement of the amount of milk so

received or purchased until or unless such producer notifies such

purchaser in writing that he no longer desires such statement; such

statement shall give, first, the name of the producer or seller, second,

the date of delivery, third, the amount so delivered, fourth, shall be

signed by the purchaser or his duly authorized representative; such

statement shall be given in the terms of the unit used as a basis for

determining the value thereof. Such purchaser or receiver shall, at each

periodical time of payment for such milk, give each such producer, so

delivering milk, a statement showing the amount of milk delivered during

the periodical time for which payment is made, and the average per

centum of butter fat test of same, provided payment is made on basis of

butter fat content.

Any person having charge of a milk gathering station or establishment

as aforesaid shall keep a true and correct monthly record of the

receipts of milk or other dairy products received at such station or

establishment, and also a true and correct monthly record of all sales

or shipments of milk, cream or other dairy products shipped or sold from

such station or establishment, and shall also keep a true and correct

monthly record of the amount of skim milk produced in such station or

establishment and of the disposition of said skim milk. Such record

shall be preserved at such station or establishment for at least two

years after the same shall have been made and such records shall at all

times be open to the inspection of the commissioner, his assistants or

agents. When cream is sold or shipped from any such station or

establishment so selling or shipping milk for consumption as aforesaid,

each original bottle or package of one quart or less of cream so shipped

or sold shall bear a label securely attached to the side of such bottle

or package on which shall be conspicuously printed the word "cream" in

black letters of at least one-fourth of an inch in length or else the

word "cream" shall be blown in the side of such bottle in plain raised

letters of at least one-half an inch in length, and the top and side of

each and every other original package or can containing cream or

original crate or case containing bottles of cream so shipped or sold

shall bear a label securely attached on which shall be conspicuously

printed the word "cream" in black letters of at least one inch in length

and also a plainly written or printed statement on the label stating

from whom and what station the same is shipped and the name of the

consignee and point of destination and date on which the cream therein

was produced by such separation or skimming. The shipment of each and

every such original package of cream so shipped and not so labeled as

herein required shall constitute a separate violation.