Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 80. AGRICULTURE

CHAPTER 4. AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES

Part 7. Inspection and Grading

Official Agricultural Commodity Inspectors, Samplers, And Weighers -- Designation Of Seasonal Inspection Points -- Assignment Of Inspectors

80-4-701. Official agricultural commodity inspectors, samplers, and weighers -- designation of seasonal inspection points -- assignment of inspectors. (1) The department shall provide inspectors, samplers, and weighers to enforce this part. At all inspection points designated by the department, the department shall provide sufficient official agricultural commodity inspectors, samplers, and weighers to inspect and weigh all agricultural commodities subject to state inspection.

(2) The department may, during the grain-marketing season, appoint inspectors to visit the grain-growing districts to investigate the grading, dockage, and weighing of grain and to enforce the rules of the department.

(3) Expenditures for the inspection and weighing at the points designated by the department may not exceed total fee receipts at those points.

History: En. Sec. 55, Ch. 539, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 76, L. 1997.