§ 106-277.16 – Seed-testing facilities.
106-277.16. Seed-testing facilities. The Commissioner is authorized to establish and maintain or make provision for seed-testing facilities, to employ educationally qualified persons, to make or provide for making purity and germination tests of seeds, upon request, for farmers or seedsmen, and to prescribe rules and regulations governing such testing, and to incur such expenses as […]
§ 106-277.17 – Registration and variety testing.
106-277.17. Registration and variety testing. The Commissioner is authorized to require the registration, after field testing for performance and trueness-to-variety, of any variety, blend, or hybrid as a prerequisite to sale in this State and to promulgate rules and regulations pertaining to same. The Commissioner is further authorized to prohibit the sale of any variety, […]
§ 106-277.18 – Registration and licensing of dealers.
106-277.18. Registration and licensing of dealers. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner and he is hereby authorized to require each seed dealer selling, offering or exposing for sale in, or exporting from, this State any agricultural or vegetable seeds for seeding purposes, including packet or package seeds, to register with the Commissioner and […]
§ 106-277.19 – Revocation, suspension, or refusal of license for cause; hearing; appeal.
106-277.19. Revocation, suspension, or refusal of license for cause; hearing; appeal. In accordance with Chapter 150B of the General Statutes, the Commissioner is authorized to suspend any seed license issued for a period not to exceed three years, revoke any seed license issued, or to refuse to issue a seed license to any person upon […]
§ 106-277.20 – Right of entry for purposes of inspection; duty of vendors.
106-277.20. Right of entry for purposes of inspection; duty of vendors. For the purpose of carrying out this Article the Commissioner or his agent is authorized to enter upon any public or private premises during regular business hours in order to have access to seeds subject to his Article and the rules and regulations thereunder. […]
§ 106-277.21 – Sampling, inspecting and testing; notice of violations.
106-277.21. Sampling, inspecting and testing; notice of violations. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner, who may act through his authorized agents, to sample, inspect, make analysis of and test agricultural and vegetable seeds transported, held in storage, sold, offered or exposed for sale within this State for sowing purposes at such time and […]
§ 106-277.22 – Stop-sale orders; penalty covering expenses; appeal.
106-277.22. Stop-sale orders; penalty covering expenses; appeal. The Commissioner is authorized to issue and enforce a written or printed "stop-sale" order to the owner or custodian of any lot of agricultural or vegetable seeds which the Commissioner, or his authorized agent, finds is in violation of any of the provisions of this Article or the […]
§ 106-277.23 – Notice of violations; hearings, prosecutions or warnings.
106-277.23. Notice of violations; hearings, prosecutions or warnings. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to give notice of every violation of the provisions of this Article with respect to agricultural or vegetable seeds, or mixtures of such seeds, to the person in whose hands such seeds are found, and to send copies of […]
§ 106-277.24 – Penalty for violations.
106-277.24. Penalty for violations. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this Article or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000). This fine shall not apply, however, to a […]
§ 106-277.9 – Prohibitions.
106-277.9. Prohibitions. It shall be unlawful for any person: (1) To transport, to offer for transportation, to sell, distribute, offer for sale or expose for sale within this State agricultural or vegetable seeds for seeding purposes: a. Unless a seed license has been obtained in accordance with the provisions of this Article. b. Unless the […]