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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66799</law_id><section_number>3.2-3602</section_number><catch_line>Local government regulation of fertilizer</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Production and Sale of Agricultural Products</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="36">Fertilizer</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No locality shall regulate the registration, packaging, <span class="dictionary">labeling</span>, sale, use, application, storage or distribution of <span class="dictionary">fertilizers</span> except by <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> as provided for in the requirements of the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Cooperative state-local program" href="/62.1-44.15_67/">62.1-44.15:67</a> et seq.), the Erosion and Sediment Control <span class="dictionary">Law</span> (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/62.1-44.15_51/">62.1-44.15:51</a> et seq.), the Stormwater Management Act (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/62.1-44.15_24/">62.1-44.15:24</a> et seq.) or other nonpoint source regulations adopted by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Environmental Quality or the State Water Control <span class="dictionary">Board</span>. The provisions of this section shall not preempt the adoption, amendment, or enforcement of the Statewide Fire Prevention Code pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Adoption of Fire Prevention Code" href="/27-97/">27-97</a> and the Uniform Statewide Building Code pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Board to promulgate Statewide Code; other codes and regulations superseded; exceptions" href="/36-98/">36-98</a>. <a id="paragraph-242247" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-3602/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> may enter into an agreement with a locality to provide oversight and data collection assistance related to the requirements of certified <span class="dictionary">contractor-applicators</span> pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Board authorized to adopt regulations for the application of regulated products to nonagricultural property; civil penalty" href="/3.2-3602.1/">3.2-3602.1</a>. <a id="paragraph-242248" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-3602/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2007, c. 563, &#xA7; 3.1-106.4:1; 2008, c. 860; 2011, cc. 341, 353; 2013, cc. 756, 793; 2020, c. 413.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
