Every person receiving milk, cream or ice cream from a common carrier in cans, bottles or other vessels which are to be returned to the shipper shall cause such vessels to be promptly emptied, cleansed and delivered to the common carrier to be returned to the shipper, and it shall be the duty of such common carrier receiving the same to have said cans, bottles or other vessels in transit within not to exceed twenty-four hours after receiving the same.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 196.825
Return of shipping containers
Known as the The Missouri Manufacturing Milk and Dairy Market Testing Law
The act spans §§ 196–196 (161 sections).
Effective: 28 Aug 1939; (RSMo 1939 § 14086); Prior revisions: 1929 § 12447; 1919 § 12018
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.