The Florida Senate

523.21  Inspectors; right to enter premises for inspection.--The supervising inspector of naval stores, inspector of naval stores at large, or any other inspector of naval stores, if he or she shall have reason to believe that any gum spirits of turpentine, or wood turpentine, has been or is adulterated in any manner, shall have the right to enter the place where the same is stored or kept, and to open any barrel, or barrels, in which the same may be, and to take therefrom a sufficient quantity, not exceeding a pint from every barrel or package, as a sample for analysis and inspection. Each such sample shall be sealed by the supervising inspector or other inspector of naval stores taking the same, who shall at the time write, mark, or label the same in such manner as to indicate the time and place of taking the same, and the ownership of the barrel from which it is taken, as well as any other fact necessary to identify the sample so taken with the original. The owner claiming or custodian of such spirits of turpentine shall have the right to be present if he or she desires in person or by agent at such sampling, and to demand and receive of said supervising inspector or inspector of naval stores, a sample in all respects like that taken by such supervising inspector or inspector of naval stores. The analysis of any such sample so taken by such inspector or supervising inspector, sworn to by any witnesses competent to make such analysis, shall be admissible in evidence in any action wherein the grade or quality of the original from which the sample shall have been taken shall be in issue. A certificate of the result of an analysis made and certified by the department shall be prima facie evidence of the nature, composition, and character of the contents of the barrel from which said sample was taken, and of the correctness of such analysis and for such purpose admissible in evidence in any court of this state.

History.--s. 19, ch. 20935, 1941; s. 7, ch. 92-290; s. 99, ch. 92-291; s. 712, ch. 97-103.