Missouri Laws 411.140 – Personnel of branch offices — appointment — qualifications — duties
1. The director may appoint a suitable person to be assigned to each office where official inspection points are established. The person shall not be a member of a board of trade or grain exchange, and shall not be interested directly or indirectly in any warehouse, elevator or in grain merchandising. Each of the persons so appointed shall be a licensed grain inspector, or a qualified grain expert, or knowledgeable of the grain trade and, in all cases, shall have administrative and supervisory skills.
2. Each of said appointees shall be known as chief inspector or inspector-in-charge, or office manager in the office to which he is assigned, and shall have general supervision of inspection of grain, and such other duties as may be prescribed by the director, and shall serve under the immediate direction and at the will of the director.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 411.140
- Director: the director of the Missouri department of agriculture or his designated representative. See Missouri Laws 411.026
- Grain: all grains for which standards have been established under the United States Grain Standards Act (Sections 71 to 87 of Title 7, United States Code), and any other agricultural commodities, seeds and vegetable oils prescribed by the director by regulation, except the term "grain" shall not include those commodities deemed not to be grain pursuant to section 411. See Missouri Laws 411.026
- Grain inspector: a warehouseman or a person employed by the warehouseman to inspect, grade or sign warehouse receipts for grain stored or to be stored in a warehouse licensed under this chapter. See Missouri Laws 411.026
- Person: means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, exchange, association, trustee, receiver, corporation, cooperative, society, public body, political subdivision, or any other business or commercial entity or organization of any kind whatsoever, and any member, officer or employee thereof. See Missouri Laws 411.026
- Warehouse: any building, structure or other enclosure in which grain is or may be stored and through which grain is or may be handled or shipped. See Missouri Laws 411.026