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AR Code § 2-19-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 3 - Liming Materials|§ 2-19-305. Penalty for deficiency from guaranteed analysis

 (a) If any liming material offered for sale in this state shall, upon official analysis, prove deficient from its statement of guarantee to the extent of five percent (5%) or more, then the manufacturer, importer, or guarantor of the liming material shall be liable for two (2) times the value of the actual deficiency as shown by the official analysis.  (b)  (1) Penalties assessed under this section, except those exceeding the actual value of the shortages found, shall be paid to the consumer of the lot of deficient liming material within thirty (30) days after the date of notice from the State Plant Board to the manufacturer, importer, or guarantor, receipts to be taken and promptly forwarded to the board.  (2) The value of the deficiencies exceeding the actual shortages and the actual value of the shortages when the consumer cannot be found shall be paid to the board within forty-five (45) days after the date of notice from the board to the manufacturer, importer, or guarantor and shall be deposited into the Plant Board Fund of the State Treasury.    (c) The board is authorized to cancel the present registration or to refuse to register for the next season any liming materials offered for sale or distribution by any manufacturer, importer, or guarantor who fails or refuses to comply with this section.
AR Code § 2-19-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 3 - Liming Materials|§ 2-19-306. Registration and vendor's license

 (a) Registration.  (1) Before any liming material is sold or offered for sale or distribution in this state, the manufacturer, importer, or other guarantor, which is a person or firm who places or mixes liming materials of more than one (1) manufacturer in a stockpile, shall register each such liming material with the State Plant Board.  (2) The registration shall contain the statement referred to in § 2-19-303 or the rules provided for therein and be accompanied by a fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for each liming material.  (3) Registrations shall expire June 30 of each year.    (b) Vendor's License.  (1) It shall be unlawful for any person or firm to engage in the spreading of liming material on properties belonging to others unless application for a license shall be in the form prescribed by the board. The form shall state the name and address of the applicant and total number of spreader trucks or other similar vehicles to be used by the applicant.  (2) The application shall be accompanied by a fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for the license plus a fee of three dollars ($3.00) for each spreader truck or similar vehicle.  (3) Licenses shall expire June 30 of each year.
AR Code § 2-19-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 3 - Liming Materials|§ 2-19-308. Rules

 The State Plant Board is empowered to enforce the provisions of this subchapter and to prescribe and enforce such rules relating to the sale or distribution of liming materials as may be deemed necessary to carry into effect the full intent and meaning of this subchapter.
AR Code § 2-19-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-401. Title

 This subchapter shall be known as the “Soil Amendment Act of 1977”.
AR Code § 2-19-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-403. Penalty

 Any person convicted of violation of any provision of this subchapter or the rules promulgated under this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
AR Code § 2-19-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-404. Administration

 This subchapter shall be administered by the State Plant Board.
AR Code § 2-19-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-405. Inspection authorized

 (a) The authorized agents of the State Plant Board may inspect, sample, analyze, and test soil amendments distributed in this state at any time and place and to such extent as may be deemed necessary to determine whether soil amendments are in compliance with this subchapter.  (b) The board and its employees or agents are authorized to enter upon public or private property during regular working hours in order to have access to soil amendments for the purpose of administering this subchapter.
AR Code § 2-19-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-406. Rules

 The State Plant Board is authorized to adopt such rules as may be necessary to administer this subchapter, including methods of sampling, methods of analysis, and designation of ingredient forms, and to promulgate definitions of identity of products.
AR Code § 2-19-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-407. Labeling requirements and approval of ingredients

 (a) Each container of a soil amendment shall be labeled on the face or display side in a readable and conspicuous form to show the following information:  (1) The net weight of the contents;  (2) The name of the product;  (3) The guaranteed analysis, including the name and the percentage of each active ingredient and the percentage of inert ingredients;  (4) A statement as to the purpose of the product;  (5) Adequate directions for use such as application rates, cultural practices, and plants to be benefited; and  (6) The name and address of the registrant.    (b) Bulk lots shall be labeled by attaching a copy of the label to the invoice which shall be furnished the purchaser.  (c)  (1)  (A) The State Plant Board may require proof of claims made for any soil amendment.  (B) If no claims are made, the board may require proof of usefulness and value of the soil amendment.    (2)  (A) For evidence of proof, the board will rely on experimental data, evaluations, or advice supplied from such sources as the University of Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.  (B) All experimental results shall be related to Arkansas conditions for which the product is intended.  (C) The board may accept or reject other sources of proof as additional evidence in evaluating soil amendments.      (d)  (1)  (A) No soil-amending ingredient may be listed or guaranteed on the labels or labeling of soil amendments without board approval.  (B)  (i) The board may allow a soil-amending ingredient to be listed or guaranteed on the label or labeling if satisfactory supportive data is provided the board to substantiate the value and usefulness of the soil-amending ingredient.  (ii) When a soil-amending ingredient is permitted to be listed or guaranteed, it must be determinable by laboratory methods and is subject to inspection and analysis.      (2) The board may prescribe methods and procedures of inspection and analysis of the soil-amending ingredient.  (3) The board may stipulate, by rule, the quantities of the soil-amending ingredients required in soil amendments.
AR Code § 2-19-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-408. Registration of products

 (a)  (1) Each soil amendment product shall be registered with the board before it is distributed in this state.  (2) Application for registration shall be submitted to the State Plant Board on a form prepared for that purpose showing the information required on the label, as provided in § 2-19-407, except net weight of product.    (b) The registration fee shall be set by the board for each product.  (c) All registrations shall expire on June 30 of the year for which the soil amendment product is registered.  (d) With the application for registration, the applicant shall submit a copy of the label and a copy of all advertisements, brochures, posters, and television and radio announcements to be used in promoting the sale of the soil amendment.
AR Code § 2-19-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-409. Denial or revocation of registration

 (a) The State Plant Board shall refuse to register any product that does not comply with this subchapter and the rules promulgated under it.  (b)  (1) The board is also authorized and empowered to revoke any registration upon satisfactory evidence that the registrant or any of his or her agents has used fraudulent or deceptive practices.  (2) Registration shall not be revoked until the registrant has been given an opportunity for hearing before the board or its duly authorized agent.
AR Code § 2-19-410 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-410. Inspection fee and sales reports

 (a)  (1) The registrant shall pay to the State Plant Board an inspection fee of thirty-seven and one-half cents (37.5¢) per ton on all products registered and sold in this state.  (2) Each registrant shall keep adequate records of sales and shall file with the board, on a monthly basis, a signed report of the tonnage distributed by county during the preceding month.  (3) The report and payment of the inspection fee shall be due on or before the twentieth day of the month.  (4) The board, after a public hearing, may change the inspection fee schedule.    (b)  (1) If the report is not filed, or the report is false in any respect or the inspection fee is not paid within the thirty-day period, the board may revoke the registration.  (2) A penalty of one dollar ($1.00) per day is assessed for each day the payment is overdue until paid.  (3) The inspection fee and the penalty shall constitute a debt and become the basis for a judgment against the registrant which may be collected by the board in any court of competent jurisdiction without prior demand.
AR Code § 2-19-411 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-411. Prohibited acts

 It shall be a violation of this subchapter for any person to:   (1) Distribute a soil amendment that is not registered with the State Plant Board;  (2) Distribute a soil amendment that is not labeled;  (3) Distribute a soil amendment that is misbranded;  (4) Distribute a soil amendment that is adulterated;  (5) Fail to comply with a stop-sale, use, or removal order; or  (6) Fail to pay the inspection fee.
AR Code § 2-19-412 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-412. Stop-sale, use, or removal orders

 (a) The State Plant Board may issue and enforce a written or printed stop-sale, use, or removal order to the owner or custodian of any lot of soil amendment to hold the lot at a designated place when the board finds the soil amendment being offered or exposed for sale is not registered, is not labeled, is misbranded, or is adulterated, until such time as the product or labeling complies with this subchapter.  (b) The soil amendment may then be released in writing by the board.
AR Code § 2-19-413 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-413. Injunctions

 (a) The State Plant Board is authorized to apply for, and the court is authorized to grant, a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any person from violating or continuing to violate any of the provisions of this subchapter or any rule promulgated under it, notwithstanding the existence of other remedies at law.  (b) The injunction shall be issued without bond.
AR Code § 2-19-414 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 4 - Soil Amendment|§ 2-19-414. Deposit of moneys

 (a) The State Plant Board shall remit all moneys received by or for it under this subchapter to the Treasurer of State.  (b) Upon receipt of any remittance, the Treasurer of State shall deposit the entire amount into the State Treasury and handle the funds in the same manner as required in § 2-19-209.
AR Code § 2-19-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 5 - Natural Organic Fertilizers|§ 2-19-501. Definition

 “One hundred percent (100%) natural organic fertilizer” shall be defined as and include the following:   (1)  (A) One hundred percent (100%) organic fertilizer — Materials derived from either plant or animal products containing one (1) or more elements other than carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen which are essential for plant growth.  (B) These materials may be subjected to biological degradation processes under conditions of drying, composting, enzymatic or anaerobic/aerobic bacterial action or any combination of these.  (C) These materials shall not be mixed with synthetic materials;    (2) One hundred percent (100%) natural organic fertilizer shall be processed from only one hundred percent (100%) animal substrate. No other organic or inorganic, natural or synthetic, additives shall be used during processing and no fortification may be used;  (3) One hundred percent (100%) natural organic fertilizers shall contain as a guaranteed analysis not less than: nitrogen (N), four percent (4.0%); phosphoric acid (P2O5), two percent (2.0%); and potash (K2O), four percent (4.0%); and  (4) Determination of the guaranteed analysis will be according to methods adopted by the AOAC International. (Fertilizers and Materials Containing Large Quantities of Organic Matter; 12th edition, With Following Improvements.).
AR Code § 2-19-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 5 - Natural Organic Fertilizers|§ 2-19-502. Regulation and supervision — Fees and penalties — Guarantee of elements

 (a) The State Plant Board shall have the authority to regulate and supervise the manufacture and sale of one hundred percent (100%) natural organic fertilizer, including the setting and collecting of reasonable fees for sampling and analyzing the fertilizer and registering manufacturers, and shall adopt and promulgate such rules and penalties consistent with this subchapter, and § 2-19-202, as may be necessary.  (b) The fees and penalties set and collected by the board under this section shall not exceed like fees and penalties set for other types of fertilizers.  (c) When any reference or claim is made on the label for secondary or minor plant nutrients, a specific guarantee of the specific elements contained shall be given in the guaranteed analysis.
AR Code § 2-19-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 19 - Fertilizers, Liming Materials, and Soil Amendment|Subchapter 5 - Natural Organic Fertilizers|§ 2-19-503. Exemptions

 This subchapter shall not affect the private sale of unprocessed animal litter, nor shall the State Plant Board regulate the private sale of unprocessed animal litter which is not sold as one hundred percent (100%) natural organic fertilizer as defined by this subchapter.
AR Code § 2-20-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 20 - Processing, Grading, Labeling, and Marketing of Products|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-20-101. Title

 This subchapter shall be known as the “Agricultural Products Grading Act of 1925”.
AR Code § 2-20-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 20 - Processing, Grading, Labeling, and Marketing of Products|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-20-102. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Agricultural products” means horticultural, viticultural, bee, and other agricultural products;  (2) “Board” means the State Plant Board;  (3) “Director” means the Director of the State Plant Board;  (4) “Persons” means individuals, partnerships, corporations, associations, or two (2) or more individuals having a joint or common interest; and  (5) “Places” means vessels, cars, and other vehicles, buildings, docks, railroad platforms, orchards, fields, and other premises where agricultural products are kept, handled, or grown.
AR Code § 2-20-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 20 - Processing, Grading, Labeling, and Marketing of Products|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-20-103. Penalty

 Any person who shall violate any provision of this subchapter shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
AR Code § 2-20-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 20 - Processing, Grading, Labeling, and Marketing of Products|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-20-104. Official standards for grading

 (a) In order to promote, protect, further, and develop the agricultural interests of this state, the State Plant Board, after investigation and public hearing, is authorized and empowered to fix and promulgate official standards for grading and classifying any or all agricultural products grown or produced in this state and to fix and promulgate official standards for containers of farm products and to change any of them from time to time.  (b) The board, in its rules or notices promulgated under this subchapter, shall prescribe such tolerances as may be deemed necessary, permitting variations from the standards fixed under the provisions of this subchapter as are reasonably incident to the proper grading of agricultural products or to the manufacture of containers for farm products.
AR Code § 2-20-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 20 - Processing, Grading, Labeling, and Marketing of Products|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-20-105. Notice of standards

 (a) In promulgating the standards or any alterations or modifications of the standards, the State Plant Board shall specify the date when they shall become effective and shall give public notice, not less than thirty (30) days in advance of the date when the standard for any agricultural product shall become effective and one (1) year in advance of the date when the standard for any container shall become effective, by such means as the board deems proper.  (b) The Director of the State Plant Board is authorized and empowered to employ reasonable methods for diffusing information concerning the standard that may be fixed by the board for any agricultural product or container.
AR Code § 2-20-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 20 - Processing, Grading, Labeling, and Marketing of Products|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-20-106. Adoption of federal standards

 (a) The State Plant Board is authorized to fix and promulgate as the official standard of this state for any agricultural product or container the standard for the product or container which may have been promulgated or announced therefor under the authority of the United States Congress.  (b) In carrying out the provisions of this subchapter, the Director of the State Plant Board is authorized to cooperate with the United States or any department thereof in accomplishing the matters and things provided for in this subchapter.
AR Code § 2-20-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 20 - Processing, Grading, Labeling, and Marketing of Products|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-20-107. Container standards

 When any standard for a container for an agricultural product becomes effective under this subchapter, then no person shall manufacture for commerce within the jurisdiction of this state or sell, ship, or offer for sale in commerce any container, either filled or unfilled, to which that standard is applicable when the container does not comply with the standard, subject to such tolerance as may be permitted under this subchapter.
AR Code § 2-20-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 20 - Processing, Grading, Labeling, and Marketing of Products|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-20-108. Unlawful sale or disposal

 It shall be unlawful for any person to offer for sale or to sell or otherwise dispose of any agricultural product in this state under any grade name or classification fixed for that agricultural product under the provisions of this subchapter or under any description, name, or designation which would reasonably be construed to refer to any grade name or classification fixed for that agricultural product under the provisions of this subchapter unless that agricultural product is graded or classified in conformity with the standard which may be specified for that grade or classification of the agricultural product under the provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 2-20-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 2 - Agronomy|Chapter 20 - Processing, Grading, Labeling, and Marketing of Products|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-20-109. Suspension or revocation of licenses

 (a) The Director of the State Plant Board may designate any competent inspector or other employee or agent of the State Plant Board and, upon satisfactory evidence of competency, may license any other person, and charge and collect a reasonable fee for the license, to inspect or classify agricultural products in accordance with such rules as the board may prescribe at such places as the volume of business may be found to warrant the furnishing of inspection service, at the request of persons having an interest in products and to ascertain and certify the grade, classification, quality, or condition thereof, and such other pertinent facts as the board may require.  (b)  (1) The board is authorized to fix, assess, and collect or cause to be collected fees for services when they are performed by inspectors, employees, or agents of the board.  (2) Licensed inspectors may charge and collect as compensation for services only such fees as may be approved by the board.    (c)  (1) The director may suspend or revoke any license whenever, after an opportunity for hearing has been afforded to the licensee, the director shall determine that the licensee is incompetent, or has knowingly or carelessly failed to grade or classify any agricultural product in accordance with such standards, or has knowingly or carelessly failed to correctly certify the grade, classification, quality, or condition of any agricultural product, or has violated any provision of this subchapter, or of the rules made pursuant thereto.  (2) Pending investigations, the director may suspend a licensee temporarily without a hearing.