§ 69-24-21. Adulteration
No person shall distribute an adulterated soil or plant amendment. A soil or plant amendment shall be deemed to be adulterated if: it contains any deleterious or harmful agent in sufficient amount to render it injurious to beneficial plant, human, animal or aquatic life when applied in accordance with directions for use on the label, […]
§ 69-24-23. “Stop sale, use or removal” orders
The commissioner may issue and enforce a written or printed “stop sale, use or removal” order to the owner or custodian of any lot of soil or plant amendment and to hold at a designated place, when the commissioner finds said soil or plant amendment is offered or exposed for sale in violation of any […]
§ 69-24-25. Violations; notice; hearings; penalties; warnings; injunctive relief
If it shall appear from the examination of any soil or plant amendment that any of the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations issued thereunder have been violated, the commissioner shall cause notice of the violations to be given to the registrant, distributor, or possessor from whom said sample was taken. Any […]
§ 69-24-27. Adoption and enforcement of rules and regulations
The commissioner and State Chemist may adopt, amend or repeal rules and regulations relating to sampling, analytical methods, forms, minimum percentage, soil or plant amending ingredients, exempted materials, investigational allowances, definitions, records, labels, labeling, liability bond, misbranding, mislabeling and the distribution of soil or plant amendments as may be necessary to carry into effect the […]
§ 69-24-9. Registration of each separate soil or plant amendment product
Each separately identified product shall be registered before being distributed in this state. The application for registration shall be submitted to the commissioner and State Chemist on the form furnished or approved by the commissioner and shall be accompanied by a fee of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) per product. Upon approval by the commissioner and State […]
§ 69-24-11. Refusal or cancellation of registration; hearing
The commissioner and State Chemist are authorized and empowered to refuse registration of a soil or plant amendment if they find the brand of soil or plant amendment violates any section of this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter. The commissioner and State Chemist are authorized and empowered to cancel the […]
§ 69-24-13. Inspection fees; tonnage payments; penalties; disclosure of information
There shall be paid to the commissioner for all soil or plant amendments distributed in this state an inspection fee of Thirty-five Cents ($.35) per ton. However, products sold in packages of ten (10) pounds or less or one (1) gallon or less shall be subject to an annual inspection fee of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) […]
§ 69-24-15. Sampling, inspection and analysis
It is the duty of the commissioner and State Chemist, who may act through their duly authorized agents, to sample, inspect, make analyses of, and test soil or plant amendments distributed within the State of Mississippi at any time and place, and to such an extent they may deem necessary to determine whether such soil […]
§ 69-24-17. Penalties for deficient analysis; determination of commercial values
If the analysis shall show that any soil or plant amendment falls short of the guaranteed analysis in any one (1) soil or plant amending ingredient, or in total soil or plant amending ingredients, beyond “investigational allowances” as established by regulation, a penalty of three (3) times the commercial value of such deficiency shall be […]
§ 69-24-19. Misbranding
No person shall distribute a misbranded soil or plant amendment. A soil or plant amendment shall be deemed to be misbranded if: its labeling is false or misleading in any particular; if it is distributed under the name of another soil or plant amendment; if it is not labeled as required in Sections 69-24-7 and […]