80-4-301. Standard classes of mustard seed -- grade requirements. (1) The standard classes of mustard seed for the state of Montana shall be as follows:
     (a) fancy--cultivated tame yellow mustard seed;
     (b) class 1--cultivated tame yellow mustard seed;
     (c) class 2--cultivated tame brown mustard seed;
     (d) class 3--cultivated tame Montana oriental mustard seed;
     (e) class 4--mixed cultivated tame mustard seed.
     (2) Classes 1, 2, and 3 shall contain not more than 5% of other classes. Class 4 shall be any mixture of cultivated tame mustard seed having an admixture of other classes in excess of 5% and shall be graded according to the predominating class in the mixture.
     (3) Grade requirements for cultivated tame mustard seed (percentage figures determined after the removal of dockage):
     
          GRADE NUMBER

     
     
           Fancy     1     2     3
     Sound cultivated mustard                       
     not less than     99%     98 1/2%     97%     95%

     Damaged kernels                       
     heat-damaged     0     0.1%     0.2%     0.5%
     Total     1%     1 1/2%     3 %     5 %

     Other classes                       
     wild mustard     0     0.1%     0.2%     0.5%
     Total     0     0.5%     2.0%     5.0%

     Foreign material other                 
      than dockage                 
     Cockle seed     0     0.1%     0.2%     0.3%
     Weed seed     0     0.3%     0.5%     0.7%
     Total     0     1 %     1 1/2%     2 %
     

     Sample: Sample grade shall include mustard seed which does not come within the requirements of any of the grades, No. 1 to No. 3, inclusive, or which has any objectionable foreign odor or is sour, heating, hot, or is otherwise of distinctly low quality or contains small, inseparable stones or cinders.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 35, L. 1941; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 170, L. 1957; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 13, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 3-1901.