Section 200.2 – Enforcing official.
200.2 Enforcing official. This chapter shall be administered by the secretary of agriculture. [C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §200.2] 2021 Acts, ch 76, §44 Section amended
Section 200.17A – Ammonium nitrate security.
200.17A Ammonium nitrate security. A licensee who sells ammonium nitrate on a retail basis shall comply with all of the following: 1. The licensee shall store the ammonium nitrate in a location which secures it from unauthorized access, and which prevents and provides for the detection of its theft. 2. A licensee shall only sell […]
Section 200.3 – Definitions of words and terms.
200.3 Definitions of words and terms. When used in this chapter: 1. “Ammonium nitrate” means a compound that is chiefly composed of ammonium salt of nitric acid which contains not less than thirty-three percent nitrogen, one-half of which is in the ammonium form and one-half in the nitrate form. 2. The term “anhydrous ammonia” means […]
Section 200.4 – License — fee and expiration.
200.4 License — fee and expiration. 1. Any person who manufactures, mixes, blends, mixes to customer’s order, offers for sale, sells, or distributes any fertilizer or soil conditioner in this state must first obtain a license issued by the secretary and pay a twenty dollar license fee for each place of manufacture or distribution from […]
Section 200.5 – Registration.
200.5 Registration. 1. Each brand and grade of commercial fertilizer and each soil conditioner shall be registered before being offered for sale, sold or otherwise distributed in this state; except that a commercial fertilizer formulated according to special specifications furnished by a consumer to fill the consumer’s order shall not be required to be registered, […]
Section 200.6 – Labeling.
200.6 Labeling. 1. Any commercial fertilizer offered for sale or sold or distributed in this state in bags, or other containers, shall have placed on or affixed to the container in legibly written or printed form, the information required by section 200.5, subsection 2; either on tags affixed to the end of the package or […]
Section 200.7 – Fertilizer-pesticide mixture.
200.7 Fertilizer-pesticide mixture. Only those persons licensed under section 200.4 shall be permitted to add pesticides to commercial fertilizers. These persons shall at all times produce a uniform mixture of fertilizer and pesticide and shall register and label their product in compliance with both chapter 206 and this chapter. [C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, […]
Section 200.8 – Inspection fees.
200.8 Inspection fees. 1. a. There shall be paid by the licensee to the secretary for all commercial fertilizers and soil conditioners sold, or distributed in this state, an inspection fee to be fixed annually by the secretary of agriculture at not more than twenty cents per ton. Sales for manufacturing purposes only are hereby […]
Section 200.9 – Fertilizer fees.
200.9 Fertilizer fees. Fees collected for licenses and inspection fees under sections 200.4 and 200.8, with the exception of those fees collected for deposit in the agriculture management account of the groundwater protection fund, shall be deposited in the general fund of the state and shall be subject to the requirements of section 8.60. Moneys […]
Section 200.10 – Inspection, sampling, and analysis.
200.10 Inspection, sampling, and analysis. 1. It shall be the duty of the secretary, who may act through an authorized agent, to sample, inspect, make analysis of, and test commercial fertilizers or soil conditioners distributed within this state at time and place and to such an extent as the secretary may deem necessary, to determine […]