Georgia Administrative Code

The following words or terms shall have the meaning set forth herein when used in these rules and regulations. (1) "Act" means the laws relating to Dealers in Agricultural Products, Article I of O.C.G.A. 2-9. (2) The term "Commissioner" as used in these regulations means the Geor…

(1) These rules shall apply to any dealer in agricultural products who comes within the terms of the Act to engage in such business in the State of Georgia. (2) These rules shall not apply to: (a) Farmers or groups of farmers in the sale of agricultural products grown by themselv…

Any and all ledgers, books of accounts, memoranda, and other documents which relate to dealer in agricultural products transactions shall be kept and made available for examination by the Commissioner at the place or places of business of the dealer in agricultural products appli…

Every dealer in agricultural products as defined herein, prior to transacting business within the State of Georgia, shall come under the provisions of the Act by complying with the provisions of the Act and the rules and regulations thereunder. Upon such compliance, any person ma…

(1) To qualify for a Dealer in Agricultural Products license, each applicant must submit or provide: (a) the complete application for a Dealer in Agricultural Products license on a form furnished by the Commissioner which shall state: (i) The kind or kinds of agricultural product…

(1) An annual licensing fee shall be required before a Dealer in Agricultural Products license is issued or renewed. (2) The license fee for a dealer in agricultural products shall be based upon the amount of the agricultural dealer's surety bond furnished by each dealer pursuant…

(1) Before any Dealer in Agricultural Products license is issued, the applicant shall make and deliver to the Commissioner a surety bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to transact business in this state and approved by the Commissioner. (2) The surety bond shall be u…

(1) The surety bond required pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations therein shall be in an amount equal to the maximum amount of products purchased from or sold for Georgia producers or estimated to be purchased or sold in any month by the dealer in agricultural produc…

As used in this Chapter, the term: (1) "Act" means the Georgia Soil Amendment Act of 1976, O.C.G.A. § 2-12-70, et seq., as amended. (2) "Accredited laboratory" means a laboratory certified to ISO 17025 standards, or as otherwise approved by the Department. (3) "Adulterated" means…

(1) A person must not register, distribute, or apply a soil amendment which contains any amount of non-agricultural biosolids or material collected by a grease trap associated with a food-production facility, such as but not limited to, a restaurant. (2) A person must not distrib…

(1) The Commissioner or his duly designated agent is authorized to collect samples of a soil amendment upon demand without charge or cost from any public or private premises within this State where a soil amendment is manufactured, processed, packed, stored, distributed, held for…

(1) Each prospective registrant of a soil amendment must submit a draft copy of the soil amendment's label to the Commissioner along with the registration request forms provided by the Department. (2) In addition to information required to be submitted to the Department upon the …

(1) Each soil amendment label must include the following: (a) The product name; (b) A statement of specific claims, or, if no specific claims are made, the soil amendment's value; (c) The concentration of soil amending and other ingredients; (d) Directions for use; (e) The net we…

(1) Any registrant who distributes a soil amendment in Georgia must file a semiannual report to the nearest whole ton with the Commissioner recording soil amendments distributed within Georgia in containers over 10 pounds in weight, and in bulk, and must submit the tonnage fee ca…

(1) This Subject applies to all registrants, product control contractors, and landowners, as applicable, distributing, transporting, storing, and applying IBD soil amendments, except that the requirements set forth in Ga. Comp. R. and Regs. r. , , , and of this Subject shall not …

(1) A registrant must identify a prospective soil amendment as "derived from an industrial by-product" in the registration application if the soil amendment contains any amount of industrial by-product. In addition to generally applicable application requirements, the registrant …

(1) The registrant of an IBD soil amendment must distribute, store, transport, and apply the IBD soil amendment through the registrant's own action or pursuant to a written agreement with one or more product control contractors for the distribution, storage, transport, or applica…

(1) Registrants must ensure that no person other than the registrant or a product control contractor distributes, stores, transports, or applies the registrant's IBD soil amendment. Each registrant shall be deemed responsible for any distribution, storage, transport, or applicati…

(1) Each person who distributes an IBD soil amendment, whether directly or through a product control contractor, must maintain records of each distribution. Each distribution record must be maintained for one year and must be made available to the Commissioner or the Commissioner…

(1) Registrants and product control contractors must ensure that IBD soil amendments they distribute, transport, store, or apply comply with the following elemental ceiling concentration limits: Element Ceiling Concentration (mg/kg) (dry weight basis) Arsenic 75 Cadmium 85 Copper…

(1) The registrant, the registrant's product control contractor, and the landowner, as applicable, must ensure a nutrient management plan is procured for each site where an IBD soil amendment will be applied, and must ensure the nutrient management plan is amended as required. (a…

(1) Each NMP must include at least the following, substantially in the form of NMP published by the Department: (a) A description of the property, including the property's address; (b) Maps required in this Subject, in color; (c) Information regarding the soils of the application…

(1) An NMP must include at least the following maps, in color: (a) An aerial map of the site delineating areas where soil amendments will be applied, which includes: 1. The total acreage of the site and the total acreage of the area to which a soil amendment will be applied; and …

(1) Each NMP must include crop and soils information. Natural Resources Conservation Service soils surveys must be used to identify the soil series. (2) Each NMP must include a soils survey map with the application fields clearly delineated and soils series descriptions including…

(1) Each NMP must include a current representative analysis of each IBD soil amendment intended for application at the site analyzed in the NMP. (2) Each current representative analysis included in a NMP must include the following: (a) Ammonia as N, % (b) Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen,…

(1) Each NMP must provide the registration number of each soil amendment under the NMP. (2) Each NMP must specify the method of application for each soil amendment under the NMP, and include a detailed description of all operational procedures.

(1) Upon written request by the Commissioner, a landowner must collect and analyze soil, surface water, groundwater, stored soil amendment, or other samples in a manner and frequency specified by the Department. (2) Upon written request by the Commissioner, a landowner must perfo…

The purpose of this Chapter is to establish the standards, practices, procedures, and requirements for cultivating, processing, manufacturing, selling, and testing hemp and hemp products in Georgia.

Words used in these rules in the singular form will be deemed to impart the plural, and vice versa, as the case may demand. For the purposes of this Chapter, the following terms will be construed, respectively, to mean: (1) "Advertise" - means, but is not limited to, the act of p…

Nothing in these Rules will be construed as authorizing any person to violate any Federal law or regulation.

Pursuant to the requirements of O.C.G.A. § 2-23-11, the Georgia Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Governor and Attorney General, has submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States a plan under which the Department intends to regulate hemp product…

If any provision of these Rules or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid for any reason, the invalidity shall not affect the other provisions or any other application of these Rules which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applic…

(1) Any person desiring to cultivate and handle hemp in Georgia must submit a complete and accurate hemp grower license application to the website used by the Department to administer hemp grower licenses. (2) Any person producing or intending to produce hemp must have a valid he…