| | | Sec. 3. Consistency with federal regulations. Resolved: That, if the United | | States Department of Agriculture or any other federal agency | | prior to January 1, 2007 takes action to require registration of | | premises where livestock or poultry is kept or to require | | identification of livestock or poultry, the Commissioner of | | Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources may adopt rules to | | establish a system for the identification and registration of | | premises where livestock or poultry is kept, slaughtered or | | exhibited and for the identification of individual animals or | | lots of animals. |
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| | | Rules adopted pursuant to this resolve are major substantive rules | | as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, | | subchapter 2-A. The commissioner may adopt these rules as emergency | | major substantive rules in accordance with Title 5, section 8073. The | | commissioner shall notify the joint standing committee of the Legislature | | having jurisdiction over agricultural matters of rules adopted under | | Title 5, section 8074 to comply with federal law or regulations. |
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