(a) The Commissioner of Agriculture may, after investigation and public hearing, establish and promulgate definitions of “culls” as applied to farm products, or any of them; and may alter such definitions from time to time.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 22-36

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • farm: includes farm buildings, and accessory buildings thereto, nurseries, orchards, ranges, greenhouses, hoophouses and other temporary structures or other structures used primarily for the raising and, as an incident to ordinary farming operations, the sale of agricultural or horticultural commodities. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1

(b) No person shall sell, expose for sale or transport for sale farm products in open or closed packages, if the package containing them or the label on them bears any statement, design or device regarding such farm products which is false or misleading in any particular. No person shall sell or offer for sale or transport for sale in either open or closed packages farm products packed in such manner that the face or shown surface is not an average of the contents of the package.

(c) The Commissioner of Agriculture shall adopt such regulations generally to supplement and give full effect to the provisions of this section, and specifically to regulate the marketing, packing, labeling and shipping of culls, as he deems necessary. Such regulations shall be filed and open for public inspection at the principal office of the Department of Agriculture and shall be published at least once in three newspapers published in this state.

(d) Any person, firm or corporation which violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for the first offense and not more than two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.

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