TITLE 22

AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE

CHAPTER 6

COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS

22-616.  "Stop sale" orders. The department may issue and enforce a written or printed "stop sale, use, or removal" order to the distributor, owner or custodian of any fertilizer and hold the fertilizer, or order it held, at a designated place when the department finds the fertilizer is being offered for sale in violation of this chapter, until the law has been complied with and the fertilizer is released in writing by the department, or the violation has been otherwise legally disposed of by written authority. The owner or custodian of any fertilizer that has been issued a "stop sale, use, or removal" order shall remedy the violations within ninety (90) days, unless the department grants a written extension. The department shall release the fertilizer so withdrawn when the requirements of this chapter have been complied with and all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the withdrawal have been paid.

History:

[22-616, added 2000, ch. 295, sec. 2, p. 1021; am. 2001, ch. 147, sec. 7, p. 522.]