§ 3.2-4001 Authority of Board to adopt regulations
The Board may adopt regulations:
1. Governing: (i) methods of sampling; (ii) methods of inspection; (iii) methods of testing in the laboratory and in the field; (iv) the establishment of standards; (v) the establishment of code designations; and (vi) the establishment of tolerances for agricultural, vegetable, flower, tree and shrub, lawn and turf seeds, mixtures of such seeds, and screenings;
2. Providing a list of prohibited and restricted noxious-weed seeds;
3. Providing for the labeling of flower seeds by kind, variety, type, or performance characteristics as required by § 3.2-4008;
4. Providing a list of tree and shrub seeds subject to the seed purity and germination labeling requirements of subsection I of § 3.2-4008;
5. Providing for the registration of the pedigree of any hybrid;
6. Providing a list of those kinds of seed that may be sold only by variety name;
7. Establishing special labeling requirements, in addition to the requirements of § 3.2-4008, for the sale or distribution of seeds produced from transgenetic plant material;
8. Providing a list of second generation hybrids that may be sold as a hybrid;
9. Providing a list of seeds specified as lawn and turf seeds; and
10. Establishing tolerances that recognize variations between analyses, tests, label statements, and subsequent analyses to be used in enforcement.
History
The record of this law’s original creation isn’t available online. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1958, chapter 483; in 1966, chapters 9 and 702; in 1994, chapter 577; in 2008, chapter 860.
Code 1950, §§ 3-219.8, 3-219.9:1; 1958, c. 483; 1966, cc. 9, 702, §§ 3.1-269, 3.1-271; 1994, c. 577, § 3.1-275.5; 2008, c. 860.