Indiana Administrative Code
Title 375 - INDIANA STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Article 2 - INDIANA DAIRY EXPORT CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Rule 1 - Program Requirements
Section 1-3 - Grader duties
Current through September 18, 2024
Authority: IC 15-19-5
Affected: IC 15-19-5
Sec. 3.
(a) All animals represented as graded as provided for herein shall be graded by a person specifically employed by the department for this purpose.
(b) Graders shall issue a certificate of grade for each animal graded. Such certificate shall be in the form provided by the department and shall contain the date of grading, grade as of that date, and the identification of the sire and dam and information required by the grade specifications. This certificate shall be designed in such a way that it does not resemble any existing purebred dairy cattle registration certificate or official health certificate.
(c) Graders shall evaluate animals for physical characteristics on the basis of the current "Dairy Cow Unified Score Card" published by the purebred Dairy Cattle Association. Copies of this card are on file at the offices of the department, secretary of state and the revisor of rules, and may be obtained from the department at its offices at 440 N. Meridian, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204.
Transferred from the Department of Commerce ( 55 IAC 5-1-3 ) to the Department of Agriculture ( 375 IAC 2-1-3) by P.L. 83-2005, SECTION 14, effective April 25, 2005.