2023 Iowa Code › Title V - AGRICULTURE › Chapter 206 - PESTICIDES › Section 206.11 - Distribution or sale of pesticides.

206.11 Distribution or sale of pesticides.
1. It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute, give, sell, or offer for sale within this state or deliver for transportation or transport in intrastate commerce or between points within this state through any point outside this state any of the following:
a. Any pesticide which has not been registered pursuant to the provisions of section 206.12.
b. Any pesticide, if any of the claims made for it, or if any of the directions for its use, differ in substance from the representations made in connection with its registration.
c. Any pesticide if the composition thereof differs from its composition as represented in connection with its registration, unless within the discretion of the secretary, or the secretary’s authorized representative, a change in the labeling or formula of a pesticide within a registration period, has been authorized, without requiring a reregistration of the product.
d. Any pesticide, unless it is in the registrant’s or the manufacturer’s unbroken immediate container, and there is affixed to such container, and to the outside container or wrapper of the retail package, if there be one through which the required information on the immediate container cannot be clearly read, a label bearing the following:
(1) The name and address of the manufacturer, registrant, or person for whom manufactured.
(2) The name, brand, or trademark of said article.
(3) The net weight or measure of the contents subject, however, to such reasonable variations as the secretary may permit.
(4) An ingredient statement as required in section 206.12.
(5) The date of manufacture of products found by the secretary to be subject to deterioration because of age.
e. Any pesticide which contains any substance or substances in quantities highly toxic to humans; determined as provided in section 206.12, unless the label shall bear, in addition to any other matter required by this chapter:
(1) The skull and cross-bones.
(2) The word “poison” prominently, in red, on a background of distinctly contrasting color.
(3) A statement of an antidote for the pesticide.
(4) Instructions for safe disposal of the container when the used container is found by the secretary after public hearing to be hazardous to humans or other vertebrate animals.
f. Any standard lead arsenate, basic lead arsenate, calcium arsenate, magnesium arsenate, zinc arsenate, zinc arsenite, sodium fluoride, sodium fluosilicate and barium fluosilicate unless such pesticides have been distinctly colored or discolored as provided by regulations issued in accordance with this chapter, or any other white powder which the secretary, or the secretary’s authorized representatives, after investigation of and after public hearing on the necessity for such action for the protection of the public health and the feasibility of such coloration or discoloration, shall, by regulation, require to be distinctly colored or discolored; unless it has been so colored or discolored; provided, that the secretary, or authorized representative, may exempt any pesticide to the extent that it is intended for a particular use or uses from the coloring or discoloring required or authorized by this section if the secretary or representative determines that such coloring or discoloring for such use or uses is not necessary for the protection of the public health or safety.
g. Any pesticide which is adulterated or misbranded.
2. It shall be unlawful:
a. For any person to detach, alter, deface, or destroy in whole or in part, any label or labeling provided for in this chapter or the rules promulgated hereunder, or to add any substance to, or take any substance from a pesticide in a manner that may defeat the purpose of this chapter.
b. For any person to use for the person’s own advantage or to reveal, other than to the secretary, or officials or employees of the state or officials or employees of the United States department of agriculture, or other federal agencies, or to the courts in response to a subpoena, or to physicians, and in emergencies to pharmacists and other qualified persons for use in the preparation of antidotes, in accordance with such directions as the secretary may prescribe, any information relative to formulae of products acquired by authority of section 206.12.
c. For any person to interfere in any way with the secretary or the secretary’s duly authorized agents in carrying out the duties imposed by this chapter.
3. It shall be unlawful:
a. To distribute any restricted use pesticide to any person who is required by law or rules promulgated under such law to be certified to use or purchase such restricted pesticides unless such person or the person’s agent, to whom distribution is made, is certified to use or purchase such restricted pesticide. Subject to conditions established by the secretary such certification may be obtained immediately prior to distribution from any person designated by the secretary.
b. For any person to use or cause to be used any pesticide contrary to its labeling or to rules of the state of Iowa if those rules differ from or further restrict the usage.
c. For any person to handle, transport, store, display, or distribute pesticides in such a manner as to endanger human beings and their environment or to endanger food, feed, or any other products that may be transported, stored, displayed or distributed with such pesticides.
d. For any person to dispose of, discard, or store any pesticides or pesticide containers in such a manner as to cause injury to humans, vegetation, crops, livestock, wildlife, pollinating insects or to pollute any water supply or waterway.
4. The secretary may suspend an applicator’s license pending inquiry, and, after opportunity for a hearing, to be held within ten days, may deny, suspend, revoke or modify any provision of any license, permit or certification issued under this chapter, if the secretary finds that the applicant or the holder of a license, permit or certification has committed any of the following acts, each of which is declared to be a violation of this chapter. However, any licensed or unlicensed person shall be subject to the penalties provided for by section 206.22.
a. Made a pesticide recommendation or application inconsistent with the labeling.
b. Applied known ineffective or improper materials.
c. Operated faulty or unsafe equipment.
d. Operated in a faulty, careless or negligent manner.
e. Neglected or, after notice, refused to comply with the provisions of this chapter, the rules adopted hereunder, or of any lawful order of the secretary.
f. Refused or neglected to keep and maintain the records required by this chapter, or to make reports when and as required.
g. Made false or fraudulent records, invoice or reports.
h. Refused or neglected to comply with any limitations or restrictions on or in a duly issued license, permit or certification.
i. Aided or abetted a licensed or an unlicensed person to evade the provisions of this chapter, conspired with such a licensed or an unlicensed person to evade the provisions of this chapter, or allowed one’s license, permit or certification to be used by another person.
j. Made false or misleading statements during or after an inspection concerning any infestation or infection of pests found on land.
k. Impersonated any federal, state, county or city inspector or official.
[C97, §2588; SS15, §2588; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3183, 3184; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §206.2, 206.3; C66, 71, 73, §206.3; C75, 77, 79, 81, §206.11]
2012 Acts, ch 1095, §132
Referred to in §206.18, 206.22, 206.23B