257 - Licenses to milk dealers. - New York Statutes

§ 257. Licenses to milk dealers. 1. No milk dealer shall buy milk from producers or others or deal in, handle, sell or distribute milk unless such dealer be duly licensed as provided in this article. It shall be unlawful for a milk dealer to buy milk from or sell milk to a milk dealer who is unlicensed, or in any way deal in or handle milk which he has reason to believe has previously been dealt in or handled in violation of the provisions of this chapter. 2. The commissioner may by official order exempt from the license requirements provided by this article, milk dealers who purchase or handle milk in a total quantity not exceeding three thousand pounds in any month, and/or milk dealers selling milk in any quantity in markets of one thousand population or less. 3. A store shall be exempt from the license requirements provided by this article if such store does not engage in the customary functions of a milk dealer and meets all the following conditions: (a) Sells no milk other than that purchased or received from a duly licensed milk dealer, or a milk dealer exempted by official order of the commissioner from the license requirements of this article. (b) Does not operate a milk pasteurizing plant. (c) Delivers no milk to hotels, restaurants, lunch counters, soda fountains, or any eating establishment to be consumed on the premises. (d) Sells not more than three thousand pounds of milk in any month for off-premises delivery. (e) Does not deliver or transport or cause to be delivered or transported milk to a store or stores, except milk delivered to such store by a licensed milk dealer or milk dealers. (f) Does not sell milk to other stores. (g) Does not purchase, buy, sell or deal in milk received from unlicensed dealers. 4. Farmers (including individuals and partnerships but not corporations) selling not more than one hundred quarts daily average of milk, or any amount of milk pasteurized on the farm where produced, to customers coming there for it shall be exempt from the license requirements provided by this article. 5. Any person who sells food and beverages through vending machines shall be exempt from the licensing requirements provided that such person (a) sells no milk in bulk or in containers that are greater than one pint in size; (b) sells no milk other than that purchased or received from a duly licensed milk dealer, or a milk dealer exempted by official order of the commissioner from the license requirements of this article; (c) does not operate a milk pasteurizing plant; and (d) is subject to those provisions of the state sanitary code that regulate the sale of food and beverages through vending machines.