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provision of public health laws, county board of health rules, or municipal ordinances for the promotion or protection of the public health.

The department may cooperate with the department of public health and human services, a county or city board of health, or the department of agriculture in enforcing this chapter.
The department shall assist the board by investigating all matters pertaining to the production, processing, storage, distribution, and sale of milk in this state and by bringing proceedings to enforce the orders of the board. The department, in exercising its enforcement duties, may subpoena milk dealers, their records, books, and accounts, and any other person from whom information may be desired or considered necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of this chapter. The department may take depositions of witnesses who are sick or absent from the state or who cannot otherwise appear in person before the department at its offices. The department shall give at least 10 days' notice to the proposed witness.
The department shall provide staff to the board as provided in 2-15-121 to assist in technical, enforcement, and regulatory activities.

Section 31. Section 81-23-401, MCA, is amended to read:

"81-23-401. Entry, inspection, and investigation. The Except for the premises of a small dairy as defined in 81-21-101, the department may enter, at all reasonable hours, all places where milk is produced, processed, bottled, handled, or stored or where the books, papers, records, or documents relative to those transactions are kept, and may inspect and copy them in any place in this state. The department may administer oaths and take testimony for the purpose of ascertaining facts which, in the judgment of the department, are necessary to administer this chapter."

Section 32. Section 81-23-405, MCA, is amended to read:

"81-23-405. Violations made misdemeanors -- penalties. (1) A Except for a person operating a small dairy as defined in 81-21-101, a person who produces, sells, distributes, or handles milk in any way, except as a consumer, without a license from the board as required by this chapter or who violates a lawful rule of the department or board is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding 600. Each day's violation is a separate offense.