Article 7. Butter Permits And Licenses of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 15. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 12. >> Article 7.

A person shall not engage in the business of cutting and wrapping butter unless such person, in addition to the milk products plant license, has a butter cutting and wrapping permit.

Every person that distributes butter which is received in packaged form direct from out-of-state points shall obtain a butter distributor's permit from the director for each plant or place of business.

Every butter cutting and wrapping permit and butter distributor's permit expires at the end of each calendar year. A permit may be renewed each successive year, if the plant for which the previous permit was issued and the business has been conducted in accordance with the requirements of this division during the year next preceding that for which renewal is requested.

Every person who is in charge of cutting, wrapping, packaging, or distributing butter, or any supervisor of any such person who is responsible for the grading of butter, shall obtain and hold a butter grader's license.

Application for such license shall be made to the director who shall examine each applicant as to his qualifications and knowledge of butter grades and of the law applicable to him. The fee for a butter grader's license shall accompany the application.

Every butter grader's license expires on the 31st day of December. It may be renewed by payment of the renewal fee for a butter grader's license.

The licensing provisions of this article also apply to butter which is received in package form from out-of-state points.