Section 775.50  Permits

No person may establish, maintain, conduct, or operated a dairy farm, milk plant, receiving station, transfer station, or cleaning and sanitizing facility to process or haul milk or milk products or bring in and distribute pasteurized milk or milk products from another state without a permit from the Department. (Section 5 of the Act)

a)         A permit shall be granted to and renewed for persons, who maintain, conduct, or operated a milk plant, receiving station, transfer station, and cleaning and sanitizing facilities, within the State of Illinois by the Department upon completion of an inspection which establishes compliance with the Act and this Part and upon payment of the fee required by Section 5.1 of the Act. Milk plants which maintain cleaning and sanitizing facilities on the same site as the plant do not have to obtain a separate permit for such facilities.

b)         A permit shall be granted to and renewed for persons who bring into and distribute pasteurized milk or milk products from another state which has rules, regulations or requirements that provide for clean, sanitary and safe handling and processing of pasteurized milk and milk products to ensure protection equivalent to that provided by this Part upon receipt of an inspection report which establishes compliance with the State's Rules, Regulations or Requirements and upon payment of the fee required by Section 5.1 of the Act.

c)         An original permit shall be granted to a milk hauler-sampler when the following conditions are met:

1)         An inspection establishes that the milk hauler-sampler's  equipment is in compliance with the provisions of the Act and this Part,

2)         The milk hauler-sampler has successfully completed and examination administered by the Department, and

3)         The milk hauler-sampler has paid the fee required by Section 5.1 of the Act.

d)         A renewal permit shall be granted to a milk hauler-sampler when an inspection establishes that the milk hauler-sampler's equipment and sampling procedures are in compliance with the provisions of the Act and this Part and upon payment of the fee required by Section 5.1 of the Act.

e)         Farm Permits

1)         An original dairy farm permit is necessary when a farm does not presently hold a permit, a change of ownership occurs and only the farm owner's name was on the permit, and when a change of tenant occurs and only the former tenant's name was on the permit.

2)         An original dairy farm permit shall be granted to a dairy farm upon the completion of an inspection which established compliance with the Act and this Part. The inspection includes procedures for the establishment of a quality record. The quality record is established by the results of four samples taken at a rate of not more than two per week and on separate days within a three week period.

(Source:  Amended at 27 Ill. Reg. 15979, effective October 1, 2003)