SEC. 75-31-21. Oleomargarine defined; labeled.
Sections 75-31-1, 75-31-3, 75-31-5, 75-31-6, 75-31-7, 75-31-9, 75-31-11, 75-31-13, 75-31-15, 75-31-17, 75-31-19, 75-31-21, 75-31-23, 75-31-25, 75-31-27, 75-31-29, 75-31-31, 75-31-33, 75-31-35, 75-31-37, 75-31-39, 75-31-40, 75-31-41, 75-31-43, 75-31-45, 75-31-47, 75-31-49, 75-31-51, 75-31-53, 75-31-55, 75-31-57, 75-31-59, 75-31-61 and 75-31-63, Mississippi Code of 1972, which provide for the regulation of milk and milk products by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, are repealed.
(1) Oleomargarine. The word "oleomargarine" shall mean all substances heretofore known as oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine oil, butterine, lardine, suine, and neutral; all substances and compounds of oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine oil, butterine, lardine, suine, and neutral; all lard extracts and tallow extracts; and all mixtures and compounds of tallow, beef fat, suet, lard, lard oil, vegetable oil, annetto, and other coloring matter, intestinal fat, and offal fat made in imitation or semblance of butter or when so made, calculated or intended to be sold as butter or for butter and all other articles or substances in semblance of butter which are not pure butter.
(2) Oleomargarine may be manufactured and sold, provided the tub, firkin, box or other container in which same shall be kept for sale or shipment shall be plainly marked or stamped on the side or top thereof with the words "oleomargarine" in English with letters the size required by section 75-31-17. Hotels, restaurants, lunch counters, boarding houses and other places of public entertainment using such oleomargarine as food, shall hang cards opposite the tables or other places where guests are served of the size required of them by section 75-31-17, upon which shall be printed the words "oleomargarine used here," in English without other words or figures, with the letters the color and size required of them by section 75-31-17.
SOURCES: Codes, 1930, Sec. 4284; 1942, Sec. 4551; Laws, 1928, ch. 296. Repealed by Laws 1999, Ch. 439, Sec. 2, eff. July 1, 1999.