CHAPTER 386

S.P. 542 - L.D. 1583

An Act Concerning the Animal Health and Disease Control Laws

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 7 MRSA §446, as repealed and replaced by PL 1979, c. 672, Pt. A, §17, is amended to read:

§446. Inspections

The commissioner or his the commissioner's duly authorized agents may inspect any fruits, vegetables, poultry, eggs, farm products, sardines livestock or other commodities that are marked, branded or labeled in accordance with official grades or standards established and promulgated adopted by the commissioner for the purpose of determining and certifying the quality and condition thereof and other material facts relative thereto. Certificates issued in pursuance of that inspection and executed by the inspector shall must state the date and place of inspection, the grade, condition and approximate quality of the fruits, vegtables vegetables, poultry, eggs, farm products, sardines livestock or other commodities inspected and such other pertinent facts as the commissioner may require. Such a certificate relative to the condition or quality of the farm products and sardines shall be is prima facie evidence in all courts of the State of the facts required to be stated in the certificate.