EMERGENCY REQUEST of Speaker of the Assembly

Assembly Bill No. 694–Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining

May 25, 1999

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Referred to Committee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture, and Mining

 

SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to packaging for retail sale of fluid dairy products. (BDR 51-1769)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

 

AN ACT relating to dairy products; authorizing the state dairy commission and the state sealer of weights and measures to approve, jointly, the size of containers used to package fluid dairy products for retail sale; requiring certain containers used for the sale of such products to be marked with their capacity in fluid ounces and a comparison of that quantity with certain units of measure; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

1-1 Section 1. NRS 581.320 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2 581.320 1. All fluid dairy products [, including cream and buttermilk,

1-3 shall] must be packaged for retail sale [only in units] in:

1-4 (a) Units of 1 gill or less, one-half liquid pint, 10 fluid ounces, 1 liquid

1-5 pint, 1 liquid quart, one-half gallon, 3 liquid quarts, 1 gallon, 1 1/2 gallons,

1-6 2 gallons, 2 1/2 gallons or multiples of 1 gallon [. Containers] ; or

1-7 (b) Such other amounts as are approved, jointly, by the state dairy

1-8 commission and the state sealer of weights and measures.

1-9 2. Each container used for the sale of such products [shall be marked

1-10 upon the side of each container] must:

1-11 (a) Be marked with its capacity [. The] ;

2-1 (b) Be marked with the name, initial or trade-mark of the manufacturer

2-2 [shall be marked upon the side or bottom.

2-3 2.] ;

2-4 (c) Be marked with such other information as required by the state

2-5 dairy commission and the state sealer of weights and measures; and

2-6 (d) If the fluid dairy product is packaged for retail sale in an amount

2-7 other than a unit of measure listed in paragraph (a) of subsection 1, be

2-8 marked with its capacity in fluid ounces and a comparison of that

2-9 quantity with the unit of measure that is closest in volume in sufficient

2-10 size and prominence to inform the public of the difference in volume.

2-11 3. This section does not apply to eating establishments serving milk in

2-12 glasses with meals.

2-13 Sec. 2. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

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