3.2-5208 - Powers and duties of State Health Commissioner; obstruction unlawful. - Virginia Statutes

§ 3.2-5208. Powers and duties of State Health Commissioner; obstructionunlawful.

The State Health Commissioner, pursuant to the regulations adopted pursuantto § 3.2-5206, shall issue permits to all plants that process and distributeGrade A market milk and Grade A market milk products. The State HealthCommissioner shall also enforce the regulations adopted under § 3.2-5206 inall plants from the point of delivery at the plant to the consumer. He isempowered, in the performance of his duties, to enter upon and to have freeaccess to any establishment or area subject to the provisions of thisarticle, or the regulations adopted hereunder, pertaining to the processingand distribution of Grade A market milk, Grade A market milk products,ungraded milk products, and those products manufactured in semblance to or assubstitutes in Grade A market milk and Grade A market milk products plantsfrom the point of delivery at the plant to the consumer. It shall be unlawfulfor any person to hinder, obstruct, or interfere with the State HealthCommissioner in the performance of his duties under this article or under theregulations adopted hereunder.

(1970, c. 49, § 3.1-530.4; 2008, c. 860.)