74-531. Rules and regulations; standards, grades and classifications. The secretary of agriculture may adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out provisions of K.S.A. 74-532, 74-534, 74-535, 74-536, 74-538 and 74-539, and amendments thereto, and to make and promulgate standards, both for receptacles and for the grade and classification of agricultural products, by which their identity, quantity, quality, and value may be determined, and recommend the same for voluntary use by producers, distributors, vendors and others as the standards, grades or classifications to be adopted for the marketing of same. Such standards, grades or classifications shall not be lower in their requirements than the minimum requirements of the official standards for corresponding standards, grades and classifications commonly known as United States grades promulgated from time to time by the secretary of agriculture of the United States. Such rules and regulations shall be duly promulgated and filed as required by law.
History: L. 1947, ch. 8, § 2; L. 1996, ch. 209, § 21; July 1.