§147-57  Department, rules and regulations,contracts, cooperation, fees.  The department of agriculture, in additionto powers granted by this part or any other law, shall have all powersnecessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate this part, including thefollowing:

(1)  To prescribe rules and regulations, notinconsistent with this part, respecting:  the standards for grading andclassifying, and the grades, standards, and classification for, food products;the inspection, grading, and classification of food products; the determinationand certification of the grade, classification, quality, and condition of foodproducts and such other pertinent facts as the department may deem advisable;the licensing of inspectors, graders, and samplers and the duties of suchinspectors, graders, and samplers; methods of test, analysis, and examinationin determining the grade, classification, quality, and condition of foodproducts; the official word or words, figure, or letter to indicate officialgrade or standards of quality or condition of food products; the design, form,and use of official labels and statements for use on packages or containers ofproducts inspected, graded, classified, and certified under this part; andcontinuous factory inspection, grading, classification, and certification offood products;

(2)  To contract with the United States Department ofAgriculture for the services of an inspector or inspectors employed by thedepartment and the establishment of a cooperative inspection service with theUnited States government;

(3)  To cooperate with the United States or anydepartment thereof, in accomplishing the matters or things provided for herein;

(4)  To fix, assess, and collect, or cause to becollected, fees for inspecting or classifying food products, such fees to be ona uniform basis in an amount reasonably necessary to cover, as nearly as maybe, the cost of the inspection and the administration of this part; providedthat the department may adjust the fees to be collected hereunder to meet theexpenses necessary to carry out the provisions hereof and may prescribe adifferent scale of fees for different localities; and provided further that thedepartment may prescribe a reasonable charge for traveling expenses andservices.  Charges for continuous factory inspection and grading may be fixed,assessed, and collected on such contract basis as will reimburse the State forthe salary and all expenses of the factory inspector or grader, to which shallbe added an appropriate percentage of charges assessed to cover, as nearly aspracticable, administrative overhead expense. [L 1947, c 195, §7; RL 1955,§22-46; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §22; am L 1961, c 132, §2; HRS §147-57]

 

Cross References

 

  Rulemaking, seechapter 91.