members of the board of directors and officers of the Red River Valley Potato Growers association present at a meeting called by the state seed commissioner, preferably at Grand Forks.
SECTION 2. EMERGENCY.) This act is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.
Approved February 26, 1949.
CHAPTER 98
Senate Bill No. 30
(Legislative Research Committee)
(at the request of the Department of Agriculture and Labor)
MILK, CREAM AND LIQUID MILK PRODUCTS
AN ACT
Governing the production, processing, labeling and sale of milk. cream and liquid milk products; defining milk, cream, liquid milk products, skim milk, pasteurization and pasteurized; regulating the pasteurization, sale, possession, advertising, labeling, and dealing in milk, cream, liquid milk products and skim milk; establishing grades of milk and providing a penalty for the violation of this act.
Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:
Section 1. Definitions.) In this act, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
1. "Milk" shall mean the whole, fresh, clean, lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, exeluding that obtained within fifteen days before and five days after calving, or such longer period as may be necessary to render the milk practically colostrum free, and which contains not less than three and twenty-five hundredths percent of milk fat, and eleven and fifty hundredths percent of total milk solids. The term "milk" unqualified shall mean cow's milk;
2. "Cream" shall mean that portion of the milk which contains not less than twenty percent butterfat;
3. "Liquid milk products" shall mean milk either whole or skimmed to which has been added a pure, wholesome flavoring compound;
4. "Skim milk" shall mean milk from which the milk fat has been wholly or partially removed and shall contain
