Title 22, AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE

22-2206. SUBMISSION OF FORMULAS. The department may require submission of the complete formula of any soil amendment or plant amendment and the source(s) of all ingredients if it is deemed necessary for the registration of any soil amendment or plant amendment product or administ…

22-2207. LABELING INFORMATION REQUIRED. (1) Soil amendment or plant amendment labels. The following information shall be considered the label and shall appear in a readable and conspicuous form on the face or display side of any container, or on the invoice if delivered in bulk, …

22-2210. INSPECTION -- SAMPLING -- ANALYSIS. (1) The department shall inspect, sample, analyze and test soil amendments or plant amendments distributed within this state at a time and place and to an extent as it deems necessary to determine whether the soil amendments or plant a…

22-2211. SHORT WEIGHT -- PENALTY. If any soil amendment or plant amendment in the possession of the consumer is found by the director to be short in weight, the registrant of the soil amendment or plant amendment shall, within thirty (30) days after official notification from the…

22-2212. PENALTIES FOR DEFICIENT ANALYSIS. (1) If the analysis shows that any soil amendment or plant amendment falls short of the guaranteed analysis in any one (1) soil amending or plant amending ingredient or in total soil amending or plant amending ingredients, a penalty shal…

22-2213. ASSESSMENT OF PENALTIES. For the purpose of determining commercial values to be applied under this section, the director shall determine from the registrant's sales invoice the values charged for the plant amending or soil amending ingredients. If no invoice is available…

22-2214. MISBRANDING. No person shall distribute a misbranded soil amendment or plant amendment in this state. A soil amendment or plant amendment is deemed to be misbranded if: (1) Its labeling is false or misleading in any material respect; or (2) It is distributed under the na…

22-2215. ADULTERATION. No person shall distribute an adulterated soil or plant amendment. A soil amendment or plant amendment is deemed to be adulterated if: (1) It contains any deleterious or harmful substance, or organism in sufficient amount to render it injurious to beneficia…

22-2216. PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION. The department shall publish the following information at least annually and in a form it deems proper: the total tonnage of soil amendments and plant amendments distributed; the total number of official samples analyzed and the number of defi…

22-2217. STOP-SALE ORDERS. (1) The director may issue and enforce a written "stop-sale, use or removal" order to the manufacturer, distributor, owner, or custodian of any soil amendment or plant amendment, or any lot thereof, if he determines that: (a) A soil amendment or plant a…

22-2218. VIOLATIONS. It is unlawful to: (1) Distribute a misbranded soil amendment or plant amendment; (2) Fail, refuse or neglect to place upon or attach to each container of distributed soil amendment or plant amendment a label containing the information required by this chapte…

22-2219. REMEDIES FOR VIOLATION. (1) A person convicted of violating this chapter or the rules adopted under this chapter or who impedes, obstructs, hinders or otherwise prevents or attempts to prevent the director or a duly authorized agent from the performance of his duty in co…

22-2220. DISPOSITION OF MONEYS. All moneys received by the director from the registration of soil amendments and plant amendments and from the payment of moneys derived from the registration and inspection fees charged on soil amendments and plant amendments, and moneys collected…

22-2221. COOPERATION WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. The director may cooperate with and enter into agreements with other government agencies, whether of this state, other states, or agencies of the federal government, and with private associations, in order to carry out the purp…

22-2222. NO EFFECT ON EXISTING LIABILITY. The enactment of this chapter does not terminate or modify any civil or criminal liability which exists on July 1, 2001.

22-2223. NOT APPLICABLE TO WHOLESALE TRANSACTIONS. This chapter does not restrict or preclude sales or exchanges of soil amendments or plant amendments to each other by importers, manufacturers or manipulators who mix soil amendment or plant amendment materials for sale or preven…

22-2224. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not effect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to…

22-2225. STATEMENT OF UNIFORM INTERPRETATION AND POLICY. When not otherwise stated in this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter, the statements of uniform interpretation and policy as adopted in the annual publication of the American plant food control officials shall guid…

22-2226. LOCAL LEGISLATION -- PROHIBITION. (1) No local government entity including, but not limited to, any city, county, township, or municipal corporation or any other body corporate and politic that is responsible for government activities in a geographic area smaller than th…