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  "urn": "urn:us-la:rs:3:4001",
  "title_number": "3",
  "section_number": "4001",
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  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For purposes of this subpart, the following shall be herein defined:\n\n(1) Commissioner: The commissioner of agriculture, his representative or his agent.\n\n(2) Cooperative: A legally chartered organization of milk producers, their representatives or their agents.\n\n(3) Purchaser: Any person, firm, corporation or cooperative purchasing milk and cream on the basis of volume, weight and butterfat content therein.\n\n(4) Producer: Any person, firm, corporation or cooperative producing milk for sale on the basis of volume, weight and butterfat content therein.\n\n(5) Milk: As defined by the state health sanitary code, the butterfat requirement shall be excluded as related to milk produced at dairy farms.\n\n(6) Fresh milk test: A butterfat analysis which shall have been determined by a method approved by law and which shall have been proven accurate and deemed acceptable as a factor of payment by the commissioner.\n\n(7) Time composite: A sample of milk obtained by the mixing of single samples, each being representative of and proportionate to the volume from which they were taken and which shall represent a period of time not to exceed sixteen days.\n\n(8) License: Any technical license issued by the commissioner.",
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      "level": "title",
      "number": "3",
      "name": "AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY"
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      "number": "25",
      "name": "MILK TESTING LAW"
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  ],
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  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1974, No. 306, §1; Acts 1985, No. 74, §1.",
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