142 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Sept., 



CHAPTER 194. 



An Act Concerning the Licensing of Dealers in Dairy- 

 Products. 



Section 1. No person, firm, association or corporation shall en- 

 gage in the purchase from producing dairymen of milk or cream to be 

 resold either to dealers engaged in the sale of such products, or at 

 retail to consumers without having obtained from the dairy and food 

 commissioner a license to be issued by him under the provisions of this 

 act. Application for such license shall be made in writing upon forms 

 provided by the dairy and food commissioner. Each license shall run 

 to the first day of July following the date of issue, and the fee for 

 such license shall be fifty cents per month. Such license may be re- 

 voked by the commissioner, for cause and on reasonable notice stated 

 in writing to the licensee, but the licensee may appeal to the court of 

 common pleas or the superior court for Hartford county, and on such 

 appeal the court may restore such license, upon such terms and condi- 

 tions as may be equitable. All license fees received under this section 

 shall be accounted for to the state comptroller and paid to the state 

 treasurer, and added to the regular appropriation for the expense of the 

 dairy and food commissioner. 



Sec. 2. Each applicant shall furnish to the commissioner proof of 

 his financial responsibility to meet such obligations as he may contract 

 in the purchase of such milk and cream, or he shall furnish a bond, 

 sufficient in amount and satisfactory to the commissioner, running to 

 the state, to be filed with the commissioner, conditioned upon the faith- 

 ful fulfillment of his obligations to producing dairymen for milk and 

 cream purchased by him in the conduct of such business. Suit for 

 forfeiture of such bond may be brought by the attorney-general in the 

 name of the state in the court of common pleas or the superior court 

 for Hartford county and the avails thereof shall be used by the dairy 

 and food commissioner to satisfy, pro rata, the claims of producing 

 dairymen against such licensee. Claims may be proved at a hearing 

 before the dairy and food commissioner, or his deputy, provided notice 

 of such hearing shall have been given to all known parties in interest 

 at least fifteen days prior to such hearing, and by newspaper pub- 

 lication. 



Sec. 3. The commissioner shall furnish to each such licensee a 

 certificate showing his name and address, the character of the business 

 for which such license is issued, his principal place of business and 

 the dates of issue and termination of such license. Any person licensed 

 under the provisions of this act shall, upon request of the commissioner, 

 his deputy or other duly authorized representative, show his license 

 certificate, and, upon request, shall file with the commissioner a state- 

 ment under oath showing the amount of milk and cream purchased by 

 him from producing dairymen during the month next preceding, and 

 the commissioner may thereupon order the filing of a bond or an in- 

 crease or decrease in the amount of the existing bond. 



Sec. 4. Any person who shall engage in the purchase of milk or 

 cream from producing dairymen without having procured a license or 

 who shall fail to exhibit his certificate on request, or who shall fail to 

 file a statement under oath upon request of the commissioner as re- 

 quired by the provisions of this act, shall be fined not more than one 

 hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than sixty days, or both, and, 

 upon a subsequent violation, shall be subject to a like fine and im- 

 prisonment of not less than thirty days. 



