New Mexico Register / Volume XXXVI, Issue 19
/ October 7, 2025
TITLE 21 AGRICULTURE
AND RANCHING
CHAPTER 34 DAIRY
AND EGG PRODUCERS
PART 7 EGG INSPECTION FEES
21.34.7.1 ISSUING AGENCY: New Mexico State University, New Mexico Department of Agriculture
[MSC 3189, P. O.
Box 30005, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8005, Telephone: (575) 646-3007]
[21.34.7.1 NMAC - Rp, 21.34.7.1 NMAC, 10/7/2025]
21.34.7.2 SCOPE: All producers, dealers and retailers of shell eggs sold or offered for sale in New Mexico.
[21.34.7.1 NMAC - Rp, 21.34.7.1 NMAC, 10/7/2025]
21.34.7.3 STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Granted to the board of regents of New Mexico state university, under the Egg Grading Act, Chapter 25, Article 6, Sections 1 through 16, New Mexico Statutes Annotated, 1978 Compilation.
[21.34.7.1 NMAC -
Rp, 21.34.7.1 NMAC, 10/7/2025]
21.34.7.4 DURATION: Permanent.
[21.34.7.1 NMAC - Rp, 21.34.7.1 NMAC, 10/7/2025]
21.34.7.5 EFFECTIVE DATE: October 7, 2025, unless a later date is cited in the history note at the end of a section.
[21.34.7.1 NMAC - Rp, 21.34.7.1 NMAC, 10/7/2025]
21.34.7.6 OBJECTIVE: This part establishes the inspection fee on eggs sold to the retailer or to the consumer.
[21.34.7.1 NMAC - Rp, 21.34.7.1 NMAC, 10/7/2025]
21.34.7.7 DEFINITIONS: "Egg dealer" means any person, firm, partnership or corporation that buys eggs directly from the farmers or from any other source for the purpose of reselling them at wholesale.
[21.34.7.1 NMAC - Rp, 21.34.7.1 NMAC, 10/7/2025]
21.34.7.8 [RESERVED]
21.34.7.9 EGG INSPECTION FEE:
A. The inspection fee on eggs sold in
New Mexico to the retailer or to the consumer shall be
fifteen cents (.15) per case
of 30 dozen.
B. The fee shall be paid by the egg dealer or producer who packages the eggs for sale to the retailer or consumer.
[21.34.7.1 NMAC - Rp, 21.34.7.1 NMAC, 10/7/2025]
21.34.7.10 [RESERVED]
HISTORY OF 21.34.7 NMAC:
Pre-NMAC History: The material in this part was derived from that previously filed with the State Records Center and Archives under:
NMDA Rule No. DOA 71-2, Regulatory Order No. 2, Egg Inspection Fees, filed 5/19/1971.
NMDA Rule No. 83-4, Egg Inspection Fees, filed 5/12/1983.
NMDA Rule No. 85-7, Egg Inspection Fees, filed 9/24/1985.
History of Repealed Material:
21.34.7 NMAC – Egg Inspection Fees, filed 7/1/1997, was repealed and replaced by 21.34.7 NMAC – Egg Inspection Fees, effective 10/7/2025.