TITLE 22

AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE

CHAPTER 34

PESTICIDES AND CHEMIGATION

22-3414.  Inspection. (1) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the director may enter on any public or private premises at reasonable times in order to have access for the purpose of observing the use and application of pesticides, inspecting records that are required to be maintained by this act, chemigation equipment and standards, chemical use for chemigation, spraying equipment, storage facilities, disposal areas, investigating complaints of injury, inspection and sampling of land and sampling pesticides being distributed, offered for sale, applied or to be applied. The department shall conduct annual chemigation system inspections to assure the effectiveness of the chemigation system from keeping chemicals out of surface and ground water.

(2)  Should the director be denied access to any land where such access was sought for the purposes set forth in this act, he may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for a search warrant authorizing access to such land for said purposes. The court may, upon such application, issue the search warrant for the purposes requested.

History:

[22-3414, added 1976, ch. 190, sec. 2, p. 700; am. 1999, ch. 69, sec. 12, p. 189; am. 2024, ch. 52, sec. 4, p. 266.]