RS 3:1444 Prohibitions - Louisiana Statutes

§1444.  Prohibitions

No person shall:

(1)  Sell, offer for sale, transport, or distribute any agricultural, vegetable, or flower seeds unless the seeds have been tested in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the Seed Commission.  The commission by rule may require information relative to the test to be affixed to the packaging of the seeds.

(2)  Sell, offer for sale, transport, or distribute any agricultural, vegetable or flower seeds which are not labeled in accordance with this Chapter or which have false or misleading labeling.

(3)  Sell, offer for sale, transport, or distribute any agricultural, vegetable, or flower seeds for which there has been false or misleading advertisement.

(4)  Sell, offer for sale, transport, or distribute any agricultural seeds containing noxious weed seeds, subject to tolerances and methods of determinations, in excess of those prescribed under this Chapter.

(5)  Detach, deface, destroy, or use a second time any label provided for in this Chapter or the rules and regulations made by the commission.

(6)  Alter or falsify any seeds, seed labels, seed tests, laboratory reports, records, or other documents to create a misleading impression as to kind, kind of variety, history, quality, or origin of seed.

(7)  Disseminate any false or misleading advertisement concerning agricultural, vegetable, or flower seeds.

(8)  Obstruct in any way any authorized person in the performance of his duties under this Chapter.

(9)  Fail to comply with a "stop-sale" order or to move or otherwise handle or dispose of any lot of seed held under a "stop-sale" order, except with express permission of the commissioner for the purposes specified by him.

(10)  Use relabeling stickers without having both the calendar, month, and year the germination test was completed and the lot number that matches the existing, original lot number.

(11)  Relabel seeds more than one time.

Amended by Acts 1977, No. 149, §5; Acts 1978, No. 34, §1; Acts 1986, No. 190, §1; Acts 2003, No. 175, §1, eff. July 1, 2003.