Title 286, AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

Sec. 11. (1) The department may deny, suspend, revoke, or limit a registration or permit if an applicant, registrant, or permittee fails to comply with or violates this act or rules promulgated under this act. (2) A proceeding relative to the suspension or revocation of a registr…

Sec. 12. The director may promulgate rules he or she considers necessary to implement and enforce this act, pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, being sections 24.201 to 24.328 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Sec. 13. (1) A person who violates this act or a rule promulgated under this act is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $300.00 or imprisonment for not less than 30 days, or both. (2) The court may allow the department to recover reasonable costs and att…

Sec. 14. This act shall take effect 90 days after the date of its enactment.

Sec. 1. As used in this act: (a) "Seed" means the seed or propagating materials of cereals, grain crops, vegetable crops, oil crops, fiber crops, forage crops, grasses, legumes, turf species, tuberous crops, and other crops used in agricultural products which are produced or proc…

Sec. 2. (1) The director of the department of agriculture is the legal seed certifying officer of this state and may promulgate rules governing the certification of seed as to variety, type, strain, or other genetic character and the labeling of certified seed, and may adopt gene…

Sec. 3. (1) The director of the department of agriculture shall, after consultation with the dean of agriculture of Michigan state university and the director of the Michigan agricultural experiment station, and after due notice and public hearing, designate official seed certify…

Sec. 5. Whoever sells or offers or exposes for sale any seed within this state represented to be or labeled as certified, foundation, registered or breeder seed, as defined in this act, unless it has been produced and labeled in compliance with the rules and regulations promulgat…

Sec. 1. As used in this act: (a) "Apples" means all varieties of apples. (b) "Controlled atmosphere storage" means the storage of fruits or vegetables in an approved sealed storage room or in an approved sealed storage building, or in a sealed storage space within the room or bui…

Sec. 2. A person or other legal entity shall not sell, label, describe, advertise, offer, expose, exchange, or transport fruits or vegetables for sale represented as having been held under controlled atmosphere storage conditions as specified in this act, alone or with other word…

Sec. 2a. (1) Each sealed storage room, sealed storage space, or sealed storage building used as a controlled atmosphere storage facility for fruits or vegetables shall be constructed of materials that will allow for the establishment and maintenance of the required levels of carb…

Sec. 3. (1) A person or other legal entity storing fruits or vegetables in a sealed storage room shall keep a daily record at a convenient location adjacent to the storage room, storage space, or storage building from the day of sealing the room, space, or building to the day of …

Sec. 4. The director may promulgate rules and regulations regarding the controlled atmosphere storage of fruit or vegetables pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.

Sec. 4a. (1) A person or other legal entity desiring to maintain a licensed sealed storage room shall notify the director within 5 days after the date of sealing. The oxygen within the sealed storage room maintained for apples shall be 5% or lower within 14 days after the storage…

Sec. 5. (1) A person or other legal entity shall not operate any sealed type storage room for fruits or vegetables where controlled atmosphere is used without first obtaining a license from the director for each sealed storage room. An application for license shall be made on for…

Sec. 6. (1) In addition to any other penalties or sanctions provided for by law, the director after notice and opportunity for a hearing under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, may deny, suspend, or revoke a license for any sealed stora…

Sec. 9. Any person or other legal entity who violates any of the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $200.00 or more than $5,000.00 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days.

Sec. 1. As used in this act: (a) "Person" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy or receiver. (b) "Emigrant agent" means a person engaged in recruiting, hiring, soliciting or enticing laborers by any means …

Sec. 2. This act does not apply to an employment agency established and operated by this state, the United States or a municipality of this state or a person who operates a labor bureau or employment office in conjunction with his own business for the sole and exclusive purpose o…

Sec. 3. No person other than those exempt shall engage in the business of emigrant agent without first having obtained a license therefor from the director. Application for a license may be made in person or by mail on an approved form and shall be accompanied by the annual fee o…

Sec. 4. A licensed emigrant agent shall make weekly reports to the director covering each week in which he conducts any activity in this state covered by the license. The report shall be mailed to the director not later than Monday following the week covered by the report. Failur…

Sec. 5. An emigrant agent shall carry the original license or a certified copy thereof on his person at all times he is soliciting, enticing or otherwise recruiting agricultural labor for employment beyond the limits of this state and shall produce the license or copy upon reques…

Sec. 6. Any person who acts as an emigrant agent without having secured a license is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 7. This act shall become effective July 1, 1966.

Sec. 1. The department of commerce, public service commission division, shall adopt rules and regulations on or before July 1, 1966 in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 88 of the Public Acts of 1943, as amended, being sections 24.71 to 24.80 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, …

Sec. 2. The department shall encourage compliance with the regulations promulgated pursuant to this act and shall meet periodically with municipal and private associations and other groups to promote the health and safety of migrant workers proceeding to or returning from employm…

Sec. 1. For the purposes of this act the following words, names and terms shall be construed respectively to mean: (a) Commissioner: The commissioner of agriculture. (b) Cultivated black currants: Plants, roots, cuttings or scions of Ribes nigrum L. (c) Currants and gooseberries:…

Sec. 2. (1) The fungus disease commonly known as the white pine blister rust caused by the organism Cronartium ribicola Fischer is declared to be a dangerous forest pest in all its stages. (2) The director of the department of agriculture shall enforce and administer the measures…

Sec. 3. Any white pines, currants or gooseberries within the state which are found to be infected with white pine blister rust are hereby declared a public nuisance, and any such diseased plants and any and all wild plants of the genera Ribes and Grossularia, may be destroyed for…

Sec. 4. The cultivated black currant is hereby declared a public nuisance. Planting, possessing, growing, propagating, selling or offering for sale plants, roots, or cuttings of cultivated black currants within the state is hereby prohibited. Such roots, cuttings or plants now pl…

Sec. 5. The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to promulgate by letter, publication, poster or other means, information concerning the white pine blister rust and to designate by the aforesaid means of promulgation blister rust control areas within the state in which…

Sec. 6. If cultivated currants, gooseberries or white pines which are not infected with white pine blister rust, are destroyed by specific order of the commissioner or his agents, the owner may be compensated therefor, the damages to be appraised by the commissioner or his agents…

Sec. 7. The commissioner and his agents shall have the right to enter upon any private or public lands to determine the presence or the absence of white pine blister rust in any of its stages and to carry out measures for its control.

Sec. 8. The commissioner may co-operate with the United States department of agriculture, with the department of conservation, and with counties, townships, associations, institutions and individuals for the suppression and control of white pine blister rust, and shall carry on s…

Sec. 9. The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to prohibit and prevent or regulate the entry into or movement within the state from any part thereof to any other part, of any white pines or any plants of genus Ribes or Grossularia when such plants are to be shipped i…

Sec. 12. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than 100 dollars or imprisonment for not more than 90 days, and costs of prosecution, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion …

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Michigan organic products act".

Sec. 3. As used in this act: (a) "Agricultural product" means any agricultural commodity or product, whether raw or processed, including any commodity or product derived from livestock that is marketed for human or livestock use or consumption. (b) "Certification" or "certified" …

Sec. 5. As used in this act: (a) "Genetically modified organism" means substances or their derivatives created by genetic engineering techniques that alter the molecular or cell biology of an organism by means that are not possible under natural conditions or processes. Genetic e…

Sec. 7. As used in this act: (a) "Michigan organic standards" means those organic production and handling standards defined by this act, rules adopted under this act, or both, that are designed to combine organic production or handling practices and an audit trail that will ensur…

Sec. 9. As used in this act: (a) "Retail food establishment" means a restaurant, delicatessen, bakery, grocery store, or any retail outlet with an in-store restaurant, delicatessen, bakery, salad bar, or other eat-in or carry-out service or a processed or prepared raw or ready-to…

Sec. 11. (1) The department may engage in or conduct activities to regulate, promote, and assist the organic industry in the manner provided by law. The department has the authority to enter into reciprocity agreements with other states' departments of agriculture and the United …

Sec. 13. (1) The following persons must be certified by a certifying agent registered by the department in order to engage in the production, sale, or handling of organic products: (a) A producer who sells, intends to sell, or represents that he or she is engaged in the business …

Sec. 15. (1) A person who desires to act as a certifying agent shall register with the department on a form provided by the department and pay a nonrefundable registration fee annually established by the department. (2) Upon payment of the appropriate annual registration fee and …

Sec. 17. To obtain a registration as a certifying agent, an applicant shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the director all of the following: (a) Certification standards meeting or exceeding the Michigan organic standards. (b) A requirement that producers or handlers that wil…

Sec. 19. (1) A handler required to be registered under this act shall provide the following on its application for registration: (a) The name and address of the registrant. (b) The nature of the registrant's business. (c) A listing of the brands or agricultural products, or both,…