The Administrator may refuse to grant or renew a license, or may suspend, revoke or refuse the transfer of a license already granted, if he shall find that the applicant or the holder of a license has committed any of the following offenses: (1) has failed to comply with, or has been a responsible member or officer of a partnership or corporation that failed to comply with, any of the provisions of §§ 1092-1118 of this title, or with any order, resolution or regulation hereunder; (2) is a person, partnership or corporation or business organization in which some person with material position, interest or controlling power has previously been fully or partially responsible for any act for which a license was or may be refused, suspended or revoked under the provisions of such sections; (3) has not furnished the bond required by the Administrator according to law; (4) has not complied with the laws and regulations applicable in the Commonwealth relative to health and sanitation in milk production, processing, handling, or sale; (5) has rejected without cause the milk after receiving same from a producer, or has refused to accept, without cause or reasonable previous notice, milk delivered by or on behalf of a producer in the regular course of an established going concern, save where a contract has been legally terminated. In the absence of an expressly or implicitly fixed period of time, “reasonable previous notice” shall be understood to mean not less than two weeks nor more than four weeks; (6) has failed to deliver the milk produced by his dairy, without cause and reasonable previous notice, to the processor with whom he had contracted for the delivery; (7) has violated any stipulation or any written agreement entered into with the Administrator in the course of some proceeding hereunder; (8) has made a material misstatement in his application, or (9) any other practice which, as determined by the Administrator, constitutes a practice which in some way interferes unfairly with the proper regulation of the milk industry and its byproducts, or which hinders the application of the public policy and the purposes of such sections.
History —June 11, 1957, No. 34, p. 67, § 11.