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MS Code § 69-3-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 1 - Sales|§ 69-3-13. Disclaimers, nonwarranties and limited warranties

 A disclaimer, nonwarranty or limited warranty used on labels or in advertisement shall not directly or indirectly deny or modify any information required by this article or the regulations promulgated thereunder.
MS Code § 69-3-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 1 - Sales|§ 69-3-15. Withdrawal of seed

  Seed not having a reasonable germination or which are extremely impure, notwithstanding the fact that they may be properly labeled, shall be withdrawn from sale and declared worthless when, in the opinion of the commissioner, such withdrawal is in the interest of normal crop production in this state.   Worthless seed in violation of this article shall not be sold or given away for planting purposes.
MS Code § 69-3-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 1 - Sales|§ 69-3-17. Enforcing agency; state preemption of conflicting local ordinances or regulations

  The duty of enforcing this article is vested in the commissioner. The commissioner may establish rules and regulations not inconsistent with this article, may employ such agents and persons, and may make use of other employees of the department as deemed necessary for enforcement of this article.   This article and the regulations of the department are of statewide concern and occupy the whole field of regulation regarding the cultivation, harvesting, production, processing, registration, labeling, sale, storage, transportation, quarantine, distribution, notification of use, planting, or other use of seeds to the exclusion of all local regulations. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this article, no ordinance or regulation of any political subdivision may prohibit or regulate any matter relating to the registration, labeling, sale, storage, transportation, quarantine, distribution, notification of use, planting and use of seeds.
MS Code § 69-3-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 1 - Sales|§ 69-3-21. Seizures

 The commissioner may cause to be seized and held any lot of agricultural seed, mixtures of same, vegetable seed, flower seed, or tree and shrub seed found to be in violation of any of the provisions of this article until the law has been complied with and said violation otherwise legally disposed of. The inspectors of the state department of agriculture and commerce shall have power to enforce this section.
MS Code § 69-3-22 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 1 - Sales|§ 69-3-22. Procedure for complaint before council

  As a prerequisite to filing a cause of action in court against a seedsman, a consumer who is damaged by the failure of agricultural, vegetable, flower or forest tree seed to properly produce or perform, as represented by the label or labeling whether related to specific representations on the label, other information on the seed container or conditions attributed to the quality of the seed, shall make a sworn complaint against such seedsman alleging damages sustained. The complaint shall be accompanied by documentation from a recognized professional verifying that there is a connection between the seed and the performance or production problem. The complaint shall be filed with the department and the department shall send a copy of the complaint to the seedsman by certified mail, within such time as to permit inspection of the crops, plants or trees by the seed arbitration council or its representatives and by the seedsman from whom the seed was purchased.   Language setting forth the requirement for filing and serving the complaint shall be legibly typed or printed on the seed packages or the analysis label attached to the package containing such seed at the time of purchase by the consumer as follows:  "NOTICE: As a prerequisite to maintaining a legal action based upon the failure of seed to which this label is attached to properly produce or perform, as represented by the label or labeling, a consumer shall file a sworn complaint with the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce within such time as to permit inspection of the crops, plants or trees."   If language setting forth the requirement is not so placed on the seed package or analysis label, the filing and serving of a complaint under this section is not required.    A filing fee of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) shall be paid to the department with each complaint filed. The fee shall be recovered from the dealer upon the recommendation of the arbitration council.   Within fifteen (15) days after receipt of a copy of the complaint, the seedsman shall file with the department his answer to the complaint and serve a copy of the answer on the consumer by certified mail.   The department shall refer the complaint and the answer to the council for investigation, findings and recommendations on the matters set out in the complaint. Upon receipt of the findings and recommendations of the council, the department shall transmit them to the consumer by certified mail.   The consumer and seedsman shall give written notice to the department of the acceptance or rejection of the council's recommended terms of settlement within thirty (30) calendar days from the date the recommended terms of settlement are issued by the arbitration council.
MS Code § 69-3-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 1 - Sales|§ 69-3-25. Penalties

 Any person who violates any provision of this article or the rules and regulations made and promulgated thereunder shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 69-3-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 1 - Sales|§ 69-3-27. Disposition of fees

 All fees collected by the Commissioner under this article, except those fees collected under Section 69-3-6, shall be paid to the State Treasurer who shall deposit the fees in the General Fund in the State Treasury.
MS Code § 69-3-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 1 - Sales|§ 69-3-29. Administrative procedures; applicability

  Whenever it has been alleged that any person or other entity has violated any of the provisions of this article, or any of the rules or regulations promulgated hereunder, the matter shall be conducted as an administrative proceeding under the terms and conditions of Sections 69-25-51 through 69-25-63, and where found culpable, such person or other entity shall be subject to the administrative and civil penalties provided therein.   The procedures described herein shall not apply to seed arbitration claims which are described in Sections 69-3-20 through 69-3-22, as such claims shall be governed by the procedures set forth in those statutes.
MS Code § 69-3-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 3 - Seed Certification|§ 69-3-101. Designation of state seed certifying agency

 The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, the president of Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, and the director of the agricultural and forestry experimental station of Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science are hereby vested with the full authority to designate a seed improvement association as the official state seed certifying agency for the State of Mississippi. Said officials are hereby further authorized, if they shall be satisfied at any time that the association acting as the official state seed certifying agency is not functioning in a manner conducive to the best interest of agriculture in this state, to terminate the appointment of such association, and to designate another seed improvement association as the official state seed certifying agency.
MS Code § 69-3-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 3 - Seed Certification|§ 69-3-103. Designation of state seed board

 There is hereby created a state seed board composed of the president of Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, the director of the agricultural and forestry experiment station of Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, the commissioner of agriculture and commerce of Mississippi, two (2) members to be selected and approved by and from the membership of the state certifying agency, one (1) member to be selected and approved by and from the membership of the Mississippi Seedmen's Association, and one (1) member to be selected and approved by and from the resident concerns and individuals engaged in the production of breeders registered planting seed in the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 69-3-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 3 - Seed Certification|§ 69-3-105. State seed board; financial responsibility

 Neither the state seed board, Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, nor any of its divisions so represented shall be financially responsible for debts incurred by, damages inflicted by, or contracts broken by the official state seed certifying agency.
MS Code § 69-3-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 3 - Seed Certification|§ 69-3-107. Certification to be self-supporting

 The work of the official state seed certifying agency shall be on a self-supporting basis.
MS Code § 69-3-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 3 - Seed Certification|§ 69-3-109. Advertising; tags

 Every person, firm, association or corporation who shall issue, use or circulate any certificate, advertisement, tag, seal, poster, letterhead, marking circular, written or printed representation, or description of or pertaining to seeds, plants or plant parts or other farm products that may be defined by regulations intended for propagation or sale or sold or offered for sale wherein the words "Mississippi Certified," or Mississippi State Certified, State Certified, or similar words or phrases are used or employed, or wherein are used or employed signs, symbols, maps, diagrams, pictures, words or phrases expressly or impliedly stating or representing that such seeds, plants or plant parts or other farm products comply with or conform to the certification standards or requirements as made by the approved state seed certifying agency of Mississippi, shall be subject to the provisions of this article, provided that this article shall not apply to the certification of plants or plant products for freedom from disease or insects which is now conducted under the authority of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce. Every issuance, use, or circulation of any certificate or any other instrument as in this section above described shall be deemed to be "certification" as this term is employed in this article.
MS Code § 69-3-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 3 - Seed Certification|§ 69-3-111. Prohibiting the state seed certifying agency from selling or processing certified seed

 The state seed certifying agency shall not have the power to engage in the sale or processing of seeds, plants or plant parts or other farm products or to designate any agency or individual for these purposes except that the state seed certifying agency may promote the sale of certified seeds in general through advertising.
MS Code § 69-3-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 3 - Seed Certification|§ 69-3-113. Rules and regulations

 The duly approved state seed certifying agency is hereby vested with the full authority to establish, create and specify rules and regulations for the designation of seeds, plants and plant parts and other farm products as certified or Mississippi certified to be grown, harvested, offered for sale or distributed. Such rules and regulations shall be approved by the state seed board before becoming effective. No seeds, plants or plant parts or other farm products grown or to be grown in Mississippi shall be eligible for certification hereunder except by full compliance as to standards, requirements and forms of or for certification as may be made by the duly approved state seed certifying agency. No certification within the provisions of this article shall be made or authorized except through the approved state certifying agency as herein provided.
MS Code § 69-3-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 3 - Seed Certification|§ 69-3-115. Appeals

 Any person desiring a change in the rules and regulations or to appeal from the action of the state seed certifying agency shall have the right of a hearing either in person or by attorney before a board of appeals composed of the state commissioner of agriculture and commerce, the director of the agricultural and forestry experiment station of Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, and the president of Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, at such time and place as the board chairman shall designate. The director of the agricultural and forestry experiment station of Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science shall serve as chairman of the board. The aggrieved party may appeal to the circuit court of the county wherein he may reside and bond shall be given to cover court costs within ten days after rendition of the order of the said board, upon which appeal is made.
MS Code § 69-3-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 3 - Seed Certification|§ 69-3-117. Approval required for issuance, use, or circulation of certification

 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to issue, make, use, or circulate any certification as defined in this article without the authority or approval of the approved state seed certifying agency.
MS Code § 69-3-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 3 - Seed Certification|§ 69-3-119. Enforcement of this article

 The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce of Mississippi is hereby vested with the responsibility for enforcing the provisions of this article.
MS Code § 69-3-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 3 - Agricultural Seeds|Article 3 - Seed Certification|§ 69-3-121. Penalties

  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, every person, firm, association or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this article pertaining to certification shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than $25.00, nor exceeding $500.00, for each offense, and be denied the right to apply for further certification within such period as the court may determine, not exceeding 1 year.   Any person who, with the intent to injure, defraud or mislead, shall alter, erase, raise, obliterate, destroy, forge, substitute, disfigure in any manner, or remove from the package, container, wrappings or bale to which it is attached, any certificate, specification, or certification of any seed improvement association organized under the laws of this state, disclosing or in any manner pertaining to the grade, quality, quantity, or condition of any agricultural field seed or seeds or any cotton or cotton lint, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than twelve months, or both.
MS Code § 69-5-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 5 - Fairs; Stock Shows; Improvement of Livestock|Article 1 - Mississippi Fair Commission and State Fair Grounds|§ 69-5-1. Mississippi Fair Commission created

 In order to promote agricultural and industrial development in Mississippi and to encourage the farmers to grow better livestock and agricultural products, there is hereby created a body politic and corporate to be hereafter known as the "Mississippi Fair Commission," which said body politic and corporate shall be under the management and control of said commission to be named by the Governor as follows: The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, chairman, the director of the Mississippi Extension Service, president of the Mississippi Livestock Association, the director of Mississippi Vocational Education, and a representative of Mississippi Association of Fairs, a representative of the Agricultural and Industrial Board, and a representative of the City Commission of Jackson, Mississippi, all to serve four years without salary compensation. Should a vacancy occur by resignation or death, the Governor shall appoint a successor.
MS Code § 69-5-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 5 - Fairs; Stock Shows; Improvement of Livestock|Article 1 - Mississippi Fair Commission and State Fair Grounds|§ 69-5-5. Executive secretary of Mississippi Fair Commission

 The Mississippi Fair Commission may name an executive secretary and assign duties, who shall be required to keep full and complete minutes of the commission's action and give full and detailed reports of livestock shows and fairs participating in premium monies, for report to the Governor and Legislature.
MS Code § 69-5-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 5 - Fairs; Stock Shows; Improvement of Livestock|Article 1 - Mississippi Fair Commission and State Fair Grounds|§ 69-5-7. Headquarters of Mississippi Fair Commission

 Headquarters of the Mississippi Fair Commission shall be in connection with the office of the state department of agriculture and commerce.
MS Code § 69-5-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 5 - Fairs; Stock Shows; Improvement of Livestock|Article 1 - Mississippi Fair Commission and State Fair Grounds|§ 69-5-8. "Kirk Fordice Equine Center" designated

 The building under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Fair Commission, that is located in Jackson, Mississippi, and used primarily as an arena for rodeo and livestock expositions and related events, shall be named the Kirk Fordice Equine Center. The Mississippi Fair Commission shall prepare or have prepared a distinctive plaque, to be placed in a prominent place within the Kirk Fordice Equine Center, that states the background, accomplishments and service to the state of Governor Kirk Fordice.
MS Code § 69-5-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 5 - Fairs; Stock Shows; Improvement of Livestock|Article 1 - Mississippi Fair Commission and State Fair Grounds|§ 69-5-9. Effect of Sections 69-5-1 through 69-5-9 on livestock shows

 Nothing in Sections 69-5-1 through 69-5-9 shall be construed to mean a change in the location or limit the number of district or divert any appropriation made by the Legislature to the various livestock shows in Mississippi now set up and designated by law.
MS Code § 69-5-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 5 - Fairs; Stock Shows; Improvement of Livestock|Article 1 - Mississippi Fair Commission and State Fair Grounds|§ 69-5-11. Admission charges to State Fair

  The Mississippi Fair Commission created by Section 69-5-1 shall charge for admission to the State Fair. The proceeds thereof shall be used for the repayment of revenue bonds issued for the purpose of constructing, equipping and furnishing new buildings and making improvements on the State Fairgrounds.   Funds collected in excess of those required to retire any outstanding bond indebtedness may be used as operating revenue for the Mississippi Fair Commission, and such excess funds received by the Fair Commission shall be deposited in its special fund account.   The State Treasurer is hereby directed to invest such excess funds to the credit of the Mississippi Fair Commission's special account.
MS Code § 69-5-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 5 - Fairs; Stock Shows; Improvement of Livestock|Article 1 - Mississippi Fair Commission and State Fair Grounds|§ 69-5-13. Requests for improvement of State Fair grounds

 The Mississippi Fair Commission is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to declare by resolution the number and type buildings which need to be constructed and the type improvements that need to be made on the state fairgrounds, and file a certified copy of said resolution with the State Building Commission. If the State Building Commission believes such construction and improvements to be in the best public interest, and that receipts from admission to the State Fair reasonably shall be expected to produce sufficient revenues over a period not to exceed twenty (20) years to retire bonds issued to pay the cost of such improvements as well as the interest thereon, it may, in its discretion, approve the request of the Mississippi Fair Commission.
MS Code § 69-5-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 5 - Fairs; Stock Shows; Improvement of Livestock|Article 1 - Mississippi Fair Commission and State Fair Grounds|§ 69-5-17. Revenue bonds; sale, payment and redemption

 The State Bond Commission may sell the bonds referred to in Section 69-5-15 in such manner and for such price as it may determine to be for the best interest of the State of Mississippi, but no such sale shall be made at a price less than par plus accrued interest to date of delivery of the bonds to the purchaser. Notice of the sale of any such bonds shall be published at least one (1) time not less than twenty-one (21) days prior to the date of sale and shall be so published in one or more newspapers in Jackson, Mississippi, and having general circulation within the State of Mississippi, and in one or more other newspapers or financial journals as may be directed by the State Bond Commission.   The State Bond Commission, when issuing any bonds under the authority of Sections 69-5-11 through 69-5-27, shall provide that bonds maturing ten (10) years after the date of the issuance of such bonds may, at the option of the State Treasurer of the State of Mississippi, be called in for payment and redemption on any interest payment date thereafter prior to maturity.