§145-7  Credit for loss or dumping.  Noclaim or credit in any payment, accounting, or settlement shall be made ortaken against a producer by any commission merchant, dealer, processor, orretail merchant for any damage to, or loss, dumping, or disposal, of any farmproduce unless such claim or credit has been agreed to in writing by theproducer and the licensee has secured and is in possession of a certificateissued by an agent of the department of agriculture showing that the producehas no commercial value, or a certificate issued by a county or state healthofficer, or other duly authorized officer, stating that the produce has beendestroyed or otherwise disposed of as unfit for human consumption. [L 1951, c74, pt of §1; RL 1955, §23-7; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §22; am L 1961, c 132, §2;HRS §145-7; am L 1972, c 39, §5]

 

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  Cited:  46 H. 292,307, 380 P.2d 156.