Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 81. LIVESTOCK

CHAPTER 21. DAIRY PRODUCTS

Part 1. Regulation of Dairies Selling Milk or Cream for Public Consumption

Exceptions Of Certain Producers Of Dairy Products

81-21-103. Exceptions of certain producers of dairy products. (1) The owners or operators of small dairies, dairies, creameries, butter factories, cheese factories, or other places of business engaged in the production, storage, or transportation of dairy products are not required to procure a license from the department of public health and human services for the business of production, storage, or transportation of these food products.

(2) This section does not limit:

(a) the supervision or regulation by the department of public health and human services of the sanitary condition of a restaurant, hotel, boardinghouse, or retail market or the products sold or offered for sale at those facilities; or

(b) the duties imposed by law on the department of public health and human services to make sanitary rules for the eradication or control of an epidemic of human disease that may exist in a community.

History: En. Sec. 24, Ch. 262, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3283, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3283, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 77, Ch. 310, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 12, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 46-233(part); amd. Sec. 351, Ch. 418, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 551, Ch. 546, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 320, L. 2021.