20-002 Code Vt. R. 20-090-002-X - STATE MILK CONTROL BOARD

1. WHOLESALE PRICES shall apply to all stores, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, schools and other incidental wholesale trade, and shall also apply to the prices charged to all persons, associations, business units or entities who sell to stores, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, schools and other incidental wholesale trade, if such persons, associations, business units or entities are not principally engaged in the business of owning, possessing, handling, and delivering fluid dairy products and do not actually own, possess, handle, and deliver fluid dairy products, or process the same.

2. RETAIL PRICES shall apply to regular retail trade to consumer, cash and carry and charged and delivered.

3. BULK MILK sales under the wholesale schedule shall apply to quantities of not less than 8 quarts daily. Such sales shall be confined to hotels, restaurants and similar places for cooking purposes only.

4. Boarding houses, tourist lodges serving meals, and wayside lunch stands are entitled to wholesale rates provided the following minimum amounts are purchased; MILK - 8 quarts daily, bulk or bottle.

5. Wholesale purchasers of milk are entitled to wholesale rates on cream in any quantity.

6. Religious and fraternal organizations are entitled to regular wholesale rates without limitations.

7. No discount, rebates, free merchandise or price consessions of any nature will be allowed except:

1. To bonafide employees of milk distributors.

2. Those price discounts which are stated on the pricing schedule.

3. Discounts by means of trading stamps shall not result in any sale below the established milk board pricing schedule.

8. Advertising allowances will be considered as rebate and contrary to this ruling.

9. Purchases by or sales to authorized officials of any town or city charity or public welfare departments or by charitable organizations approved by such city or town officials for charitable uses and school lunch milk, shall be exempt from the price fixing provision of the Milk Control Board.

10. The additional regulation designated as # 10 is hereby promulgated:

(a) Each association of producers may file with a handler who is not in the association of producers, a claim for authorized deductions from the payments otherwise due to its producer members for milk delivered to such handler. Such claim shall contain a list of the producers for which such deductions apply, an agreement to indemnify the handler in the making of the deductions, and a certification that the association has an unterminated membership contract with each producer listed authorizing the claimed deduction.

(b) In making payments to his producers for milk received during the month, each handler shall make deductions in accordance with the associations' claim and shall pay the amount deducted to the association with an accompanying statement showing the pounds of milk delivered by each producer from whom the deduction was made, within 25 days after the end of the month.

***

National Bureau of Standards Handbook 44 - 4th Edition.

Model State Packaging & Labeling Regulation, 1971.

Model State Method of Sale of Commodities Regulation, 1971.

Notes

20-002 Code Vt. R. 20-090-002-X

Adopted, July 22, 1976