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31.11 RULES.
    Subdivision 1. Food laws. For the purpose of preventing fraud and deception in the
manufacture, use, sale, and transportation of food, or for the purpose of protecting and preserving
the public health, it shall also be the duty of the commissioner to make and publish uniform rules,
not inconsistent with law, for carrying out and enforcing the provisions of laws now or hereafter
enacted relating to food; which rules shall be made in the manner provided by law. Until such
rules are made and published, the rules heretofore made by the commissioner shall remain in full
force and effect, except as otherwise prescribed by law. Any person who shall manufacture, use,
sell, transport, offer for use, sale or transportation, or have in possession with intent to use, sell
or transport, any article of food contrary to the provisions of any such rule, or who shall fail to
comply with any such rule, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
    Subd. 2.[Repealed, 1Sp2001 c 2 s 162]
History: (3805) 1921 c 495 s 16; 1961 c 144 art 2 s 9; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1989 c 350 art 11 s 5

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