KANSAS STATUTES AND CODES

2-1425. Testing samples; fees; regulations; disposition of moneys received; seed examination fee fund.

2-1425

Chapter 2.--AGRICULTURE Article 14.--SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURAL SEEDS

2-1425. Testing samples; fees; regulations; disposition of moneys received; seed examination fee fund. (a) Any person may submit to the state seed laboratory samples of agricultural seed for germination or purity tests, or both, or other examination and receive the test upon paying to the secretary a fee per sample, test or examination as the secretary of agriculture may decide. The secretary of agriculture shall establish by rule and regulation a schedule of fees for seed testing and examination to be used as the basis of charges. Such fees shall not be less than $5 or more than $45 per test or examination. The secretary may extend credit for work done, and the sender of the sample may be invoiced for such charges from time to time. Testing shall be discontinued for any person who fails to pay such charges within 30 days after invoice is issued. The limitation on free tests shall not apply to the state boards, commissions or educational, penal or eleemosynary institutions. The state seed laboratory shall not be obligated to analyze any uncleaned, unprocessed, and other time-consuming sample or any sample which obviously does not meet state seed law requirements.

(b) The secretary of agriculture shall remit all moneys received by or for the secretary of agriculture under article 14 of chapter 2 of Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the seed examination fee fund. All expenditures from such fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the secretary of agriculture or by a person or persons designated by the secretary.

History: L. 1935, ch. 4, § 11; L. 1949, ch. 3, § 1; L. 1961, ch. 5, § 10; L. 1965, ch. 4, § 1; L. 1971, ch. 3, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 2, § 5; L. 1989, ch. 4, § 1; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 13; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 36; July 1.