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MA Gen L ch 128 § 66 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 66 - Licenses to Distribute Fertilizers; Registration of Specialty Fertilizers; Applications; Labels; Fees

Section 66. No person shall manufacture or distribute in the commonwealth any type of fertilizer, except specialty fertilizers, until a license to distribute has been obtained by the person whose labeling is applied to such fertilizer from the commissioner upon payment of a one hundred and twenty-five dollar license fee. All such licenses expire on the thirty-first day of December of each year. The application for license shall include the name and address of licensee, and this information shall be shown on all labels, pertinent invoices, and bulk storage for fertilizers distributed by the licensee in the commonwealth.  No person shall distribute in the commonwealth a specialty fertilizer, soil conditioner or agricultural liming material until it is registered by the manufacturer or distributor with the commissioner. An application in duplicate, listing each brand and product name of each grade of specialty fertilizer, for each soil conditioner, and for each agricultural liming material shall be made on a form furnished by the commissioner and shall be accompanied with a registration fee of twenty-five dollars. Labels for each product for which a registration application is made shall accompany the application. Upon approval of an application by the commissioner, a copy of the registration shall be furnished the applicant. All registrations expire on the thirty-first day of December each year. An application for registration of specialty fertilizers shall include: name and address of the manufacturer or distributor, the brand and product name, the grade, the guaranteed analysis, and the package sizes for persons that package specialty fertilizers only in containers of ten pounds or less.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 67 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 67 - Labeling of Containers of Commercial Fertilizers, Soil Conditioners and Agricultural Liming Materials; Contents

Section 67. All commercial fertilizers, soil conditioners, and agricultural liming materials distributed in the commonwealth in containers shall have placed thereon, or affixed to the container, a label setting forth in clearly legible and conspicuous form the information required by the preceding section. The foregoing information in written or printed form shall accompany bulk shipment deliveries and shall be supplied to the purchaser at the time of delivery.  All commercial fertilizers formulated according to specifications which are furnished by a consumer prior to mixing shall be labeled to show the guaranteed analysis, and the name and address of the distributor.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 68 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 68 - Registration and Inspection Fees for Commercial Fertilizers, Soil Conditioners and Agricultural Liming Materials

Section 68. There shall be paid to the commissioner for all commercial fertilizers, soil conditioners, and agricultural liming materials distributed in the commonwealth, an inspection fee, set by the commissioner in rules and regulations; provided, however, that sales to manufacturers or exchanges between manufacturers are exempted from said fee on individual packages of commercial fertilizer and agricultural liming materials containing ten pounds or less.  In lieu of the annual registration fee of twenty-five dollars per brand and grade and the prescribed inspection fee there shall be paid on individual packages of specialty fertilizers containing ten pounds or less an annual registration fee and inspection fee of twenty-five dollars for each brand and grade sold or distributed. If specialty fertilizer is sold in packages of ten pounds or less, and in packages of over ten pounds, the annual registration and inspection fee of twenty-five dollars shall apply only to that portion sold in packages of ten pounds or less, and the portion sold in packages of over ten pounds shall be subject to the prescribed inspection fee.  If more than one person is involved in the distribution of a commercial fertilizer, soil conditioner, or agricultural liming material, the last person in possession before distribution to a nonlicensee or to a nonregistrant shall be responsible for reporting the tonnage and paying the inspection fee, unless the report and payment has been made by a prior distributor.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 69 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 69 - Statement of Tonnage Sold; Inspection Fee; Filing; Permit to Examine Books

Section 69. Each person who sells, offers or exposes for sale any commercial fertilizer, soil conditioner, or agricultural liming material shall on or before January first and July first of each year file with the commissioner, along with the inspection fee, a statement in such form as he prescribes setting forth the number of net tons of each grade of fertilizer, each registered soil conditioner, and each agricultural liming material, and county in which it was distributed or sold by him to nonlicensees or to nonregistrants in the commonwealth during the preceding six months, together with the permit allowing the commissioner or his authorized deputy to examine the books of the person filing the statement for the purpose of verifying the same. No information furnished the commissioner under this section shall be disclosed in such a way as to divulge the operation of any person.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 70 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 70 - Analysis of Fertilizers; Inspection and Taking of Samples; Publication of Results

Section 70. Each commercial fertilizer and brand of commercial fertilizer and each soil conditioner and agricultural liming material sold or offered or exposed for sale shall be subject to analysis by the commissioner or by his duly designated deputy. The commissioner shall cause to be made analyses of said materials sold or exposed for sale in the commonwealth, and he, his inspectors and deputies may enter upon any premises where such material is sold or offered or exposed for sale and take samples for said analyses. Said sampling and analyses shall be done on a random basis and in sufficient quantity to ensure effective analyses within the discretion of the commissioner. Analysis for all fertilizers shall be made by the methods adopted by the Association of Official Analytical Chemists. The said commissioner may publish or cause to be published reports and bulletins, special circulars or otherwise to show the results obtained by chemical analysis, said publications shall contain such additional information in relation to the character, composition, value, and use of the fertilizer analyzed as the commissioner sees fit to include. The results of any analysis made shall be sent by the commissioner to the person named in the printed label of the fertilizer analyzed, at least fifteen days prior to publication of any such results.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 71 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 71 - Analysis Deficiencies; Penalties

Section 71. If the analysis shall show that a commercial fertilizer is deficient (1) in one or more of its guaranteed primary plant foods (NPK) beyond the investigational allowances as established by regulation or (2) if the overall index value of the fertilizer is below the level established by regulations, a penalty of two times the commercial value of such deficiencies shall be assessed and paid to the consumer of the lot of commercial fertilizer represented by the sample analyzed within three months after the date of notice from the commissioner to the registrant or licensee, receipts taken therefor and promptly forwarded to the commissioner. If said consumer cannot be found, the amount of the penalty shall be paid to the treasury of the commonwealth. When a commercial fertilizer is subject to a penalty under clauses (1) and (2) the larger penalty shall apply. Deficiencies beyond the investigational allowances in any other constituent which the registrant is required to or may guarantee shall be evaluated and penalties prescribed therefor by the commissioner.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 72 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 72 - Weight Deficiencies; Penalty

Section 72. If any commercial fertilizer, soil conditioner, or agricultural liming material in the possession of the consumer is found by the commissioner to be short in weight, the licensee or registrant of said product shall within thirty days after official notice from the commissioner pay to the consumer a penalty equal to four times the value of the actual shortage.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 73 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 73 - Determination and Publication of Values per Unit of Certain Nutrients in Fertilizers

Section 73. The commissioner shall determine and publish annually the values per unit of nitrogen, available phosphoric acid and soluble potash in commercial fertilizers in the commonwealth. The value so published shall be used in determining and assessing penalties.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 74 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 74 - False or Misleading Labeling of Commercial Fertilizers, Soil Conditioners and Agricultural Liming Materials; Deleterious or Harmful Ingredients

Section 74. No person shall sell, offer, or expose for sale a commercial fertilizer or brand of commercial fertilizer, soil conditioner, or agricultural liming material if its labeling is false or misleading in any particular way, or it is distributed under the name of another product, or it is not labeled as required in section sixty-six and in accordance with rules and regulations as prescribed in section seventy-five or it purports to be or is represented as a commercial fertilizer, or represented as a plant nutrient or commercial fertilizer, unless such plant nutrient or commercial fertilizer conforms to the definition of identity, if any, prescribed by regulations.  No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale a commercial fertilizer or brand of commercial fertilizer if it contains any deleterious or harmful ingredient in sufficient amount to render it injurious to beneficial plant life when applied in accordance with directions for use on the label, or if adequate warning statements or directions for use, which may be necessary to protect plant life are not shown on the label, or its composition falls below or differs from that which it is purported to possess by its labeling, or it contains unwanted crop seed or weed seed.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 75 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 75 - Rules and Regulations; Effectiveness; Violations; Prosecution, Restriction

Section 75. The commissioner may prescribe and enforce such rules and regulations as to the sale of commercial fertilizers, soil conditioners, or agricultural liming materials as he deems necessary to enforce sections sixty-four to seventy-eight, inclusive, and may prosecute or cause to be prosecuted any person who violates any provisions of said sections; provided, however, that the effective date of regulations pertaining to ''guaranteed analysis'' shall be not less than six months following the issuance thereof, and that for a period of two years following the effective date of said regulations the equivalent of phosphorus and potassium may also be shown in the form of phosphoric acid and potash; and, provided further, that after the effective date of a regulation issued under the provisions of this section, requiring that phosphorus and potassium be shown in the elemental form, the guaranteed analysis for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium shall constitute the grade. Regulations prescribed in this section shall contain the accepted definitions and official fertilizer terms issued by the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials. No complaint based upon analysis of samples shall be made if samples are taken otherwise than as provided in section seventy.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 76 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 76 - Misleading or Deceptive Practices; Violations; Refusal or Cancellation of Certificate

Section 76. The commissioner or his authorized deputy may refuse to issue a certificate for any commercial fertilizer, soil conditioner or liming material, name, brand or trade-mark which is untrue in any particular or which in his opinion would be misleading or deceptive in any particular or would tend to mislead or deceive as to the constituents or properties of said fertilizer. If a certificate is issued for said products and it is afterward discovered that the certificate itself, or the granting of it, or the manner of procuring it, was in any respect in violation of any provision of sections sixty-five to seventy-eight, inclusive, the commissioner may cancel the certificate.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 77 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 77 - Analysis of Samples

Section 77. Samples for analysis as stipulated in section seventy shall be collected by the commissioner or his duly authorized deputy and shall be delivered to the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Massachusetts for analysis according to methods approved by the Association of Official Analytical Chemists or other approved methods.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 78 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 78 - Nonconforming Products; Violations; Withholding From Sale; Release; Condemnation; Seizure; Disposal

Section 78. When the commissioner or his deputy has reasonable cause to believe any lot of commercial fertilizer, soil conditioner, or agricultural liming material, is being distributed in violation of any of the provisions of sections sixty-five to seventy-eight, inclusive, or of any of the prescribed regulations promulgated thereunder, he, or his deputy may order, in writing, that it be withheld from sale. The commissioner or his deputy may release the lot of said product, so withdrawn when said provisions and regulations have been complied with. If compliance is not obtained within thirty days, the commissioner or his deputy may begin, or upon request of the distributor shall begin, proceedings for condemnation.  Any lot of commercial fertilizer, soil conditioner, or agricultural liming material not in compliance with said provisions and regulations shall be subject to seizure on complaint of the commissioner or his deputy to a court of competent jurisdiction in the area in which said commercial fertilizer is located. In the event the court finds the said product to be in violation of sections sixty-five to seventy-eight, inclusive, and orders the condemnation of said product, it shall be disposed of in any manner consistent with the quality of the product and the laws of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 79 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 79 - Violations; Penalties; Official Analysis as Prima Facie Evidence

Section 79. Whoever sells, offers or exposes for sale any commercial fertilizer or mixture thereof, or any soil conditioner or agricultural liming material, without complying with the requirements of sections sixty-five to seventy-eight, inclusive, applicable thereto, or in violation of any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, or whoever falsely marks, or labels any such product, or impedes, or obstructs, or hinders the commissioner or any of his duly authorized agents in the discharge of the authority or duties conferred or imposed by any provisions of said section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars or more than one hundred dollars for the first violation, or not less than one hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars for a subsequent violation. In all prosecutions involving the composition of a lot of commercial fertilizer, a certified copy of the official analysis signed by the commissioner or his agent shall be accepted as prima facie evidence of the composition.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 80 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 80 - Publication of Information Concerning Fertilizers, Soil Conditioners and Agricultural Liming Materials

Section 80. The commissioner or his deputy may publish annually, in such forms as he may deem proper, information concerning the sales of commercial fertilizers, soil conditioners, and agricultural liming materials; together with such data on their production, composition and use as he may consider advisable, and a report of the results of the analyses of official samples of said products sold within the commonwealth as compared with the analyses guaranteed in the registration and on the label; but any information relating to the general business of any applicant or licensee shall be treated by the commissioner as confidential.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 81 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 81 - Minor Violations; Reporting

Section 81. The commissioner or his representative shall not be required to report for prosecution, or for the institution of seizure proceedings if there are minor violations of the preceding sections when he believes that the public interest will be best served by a suitable notice of warning in writing.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 82 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 82 - Rules and Regulations Relative to the Sale of Commercial Fertilizers, Soil Conditioners and Agricultural Liming Materials

Section 82. The commissioner may prescribe and enforce such rules and regulations relative to the sale of commercial fertilizers, soil conditioners, and agricultural liming materials as he deems necessary to enforce sections sixty-four through eighty-three, inclusive.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 83 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 83 - Exempt Transactions

Section 83. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict or avoid sales or exchanges of commercial fertilizers to each other by importers, manufacturers, or manipulators who mix fertilizer materials for sale or as preventing the free and unrestricted shipments of commercial fertilizer to manufacturers or manipulators who have obtained licenses or registrations as required by the provisions of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 85 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 85 - Sale of Seeds; Labeling or Tagging Containers; Required Information

Section 85. Except as otherwise provided in section ninety-two, each container of agricultural, vegetable, flower or tree and shrub seed which is sold, offered for sale or exposed for sale within the commonwealth for sowing purposes shall bear thereon, or have attached thereto in a conspicuous place on one side of a plainly written or printed label or tag, in the English language, the name and address of the person who labeled said seed, or who sells, offers or exposes said seed for sale within the commonwealth. If said seed has been treated, a separate label may be used, which shall bear thereon a word or statement indicating that the seed has been treated, the commonly accepted coined, chemical or abbreviated chemical name of the applied substance, and, if the substance in the amount present with the seed is harmful to humans or other vertebrate animals, a statement advising caution such as ''Do not use for food, feed or oil purposes''. If said seed contains mercurials or similarly toxic substances, a statement or symbol shall indicate that it is poisonous. It shall contain the name and number of each kind of ''Restricted Noxious-Weed Seed'' per pound when present.
MA Gen L ch 128 § 86 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 128 - Agriculture|Section 86 - Sale of Seeds; Labeling or Tagging Containers; Variety or Cultivar Designation

Section 86. Each container of agricultural seeds, including lawn seeding mixtures, shall also bear the commonly accepted name of the kind and variety or cultivar of those kinds which are usually named as to variety or cultivar, as prescribed by rules and regulations, of each seed component in excess of five per cent of the whole and the percentage by weight of each in the order of its predominance. When the variety or cultivar thereof is unknown, the label or tag shall have printed thereon the words ''variety unknown''. When more than one component is required to be named, the word ''mixture'' or ''mixed'' shall be shown conspicuously on the label. The lot number or other lot identification, the origin, if known, of alfalfa, red clover, white clover, and field corn, except hybrid corn, shall also be shown on such label. If the origin is unknown, that fact shall be stated. The container shall bear thereon the percentage by weight of all weed seeds, the percentage by weight of agricultural seeds other than those required to be named on the label, which shall be designated as ''other crop seed'', and the percentage by weight of inert matter. For each agricultural seed named there shall appear, the percentage of germination, exclusive of hard seed, the percentage of hard seed, if present and the calendar month and year the test was completed to determine such percentages.