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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82629</law_id><section_number>3.2-5208</section_number><catch_line>Powers and duties of State Health Commissioner; obstruction unlawful</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>3.2-5206</reference><reference>3.2-5207</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Food and Drink; Weights and Measures</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="52">Milk, Milk Products, and Dairies</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Standards of Quality, Grading, and Sanitary Standards</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The State Health <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>, pursuant to the regulations adopted pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Board authorized to establish standards and adopt regulations; guidance of State Health Commissioner" href="/3.2-5206/">3.2-5206</a>, shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> permits to all plants that process and distribute Grade A market milk and Grade A market milk products. The State Health <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall also enforce the regulations adopted under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Board authorized to establish standards and adopt regulations; guidance of State Health Commissioner" href="/3.2-5206/">3.2-5206</a> in all plants from the point of delivery at the plant to the consumer. He is empowered, in the performance of his duties, to enter upon and to have free access to any establishment or area subject to the provisions of this article, or the regulations adopted hereunder, pertaining to the processing and distribution of Grade A market milk, Grade A market milk products, ungraded milk products, and those products manufactured in semblance to or as substitutes in Grade A market milk and Grade A market milk products plants from the point of delivery at the plant to the consumer. It shall be unlawful for any person to hinder, obstruct, or interfere with the State Health <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> in the performance of his duties under this article or under the regulations adopted hereunder.</p></section></text><history>1970, c. 49, &#xA7; 3.1-530.4; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
