Florida StatutesTITLE XXXV - AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY (Ch.570-604)
- Chapter 570 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES
- 570.01 Department created; commissioner.
- 570.02 Definitions.
- 570.06 Offices of the department.
- 570.07 Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; functions, powers, and duties.
- 570.0705 Advisory committees.
- 570.071 Florida Agricultural Exposition; responsibility of Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Services and Corrections.
- 570.072 Commodity distribution; responsibility of department; functions.
- 570.0725 Food recovery; legislative intent; department functions.
- 570.073 Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, law enforcement officers.
- 570.074 Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; water policy coordination.
- 570.075 Water supply agreements; department negotiation.
- 570.076 Environmental Stewardship Certification Program.
- 570.085 Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; agricultural water conservation.
- 570.09 Assistant commissioner.
- 570.091 Deputy commissioners.
- 570.092 Inspector general.
- 570.10 Counsel.
- 570.11 Directors; oath of office.
- 570.12 Other officers and employees.
- 570.13 Salary of commissioner, officers, and employees; expenses.
- 570.14 Seal of department.
- 570.15 Access to places of business and vehicles.
- 570.16 Interference with department employees in performance of duties.
- 570.17 Division of work between department and experiment station and extension service.
- 570.18 Organization of departmental work.
- 570.191 Agricultural Emergency Eradication Trust Fund.
- 570.1912 Funding of Agricultural Emergency Eradication Trust Fund.
- 570.20 General Inspection Trust Fund.
- 570.205 Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund.
- 570.207 Conservation and Recreation Lands Program Trust Fund of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
- 570.21 Publication of department’s bulletins, publications, and reports.
- 570.22 Service of process.
- 570.23 State Agricultural Advisory Council.
- 570.241 Short title.
- 570.242 Definitions relating to Agricultural Economic Development Act.
- 570.243 Agricultural Economic Development Program; legislative intent.
- 570.244 Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; powers and duties.
- 570.245 Interaction with other economic development agencies and groups.
- 570.246 Agricultural economic development funding.
- 570.247 Promulgation of rules.
- 570.248 Agricultural Economic Development Project Review Committee; powers and duties.
- 570.249 Agricultural Economic Development Program disaster loans and grants and aid.
- 570.29 Departmental divisions.
- 570.30 Division of Administration; powers and duties.
- 570.31 Director; duties.
- 570.32 Division of Plant Industry; powers and duties.
- 570.33 Director; qualifications; duties.
- 570.34 Plant Industry Technical Council.
- 570.345 Pest Control Compact.
- 570.36 Division of Animal Industry; powers and duties.
- 570.37 Director; qualifications; duties.
- 570.38 Animal Industry Technical Council.
- 570.382 Arabian horse racing; breeders’ and stallion awards; Arabian Horse Council; horse registration fees; Florida Arabian Horse Racing Promotion Account.
- 570.40 Division of Dairy Industry; powers and duties.
- 570.41 Director; qualifications; duties.
- 570.42 Dairy Industry Technical Council.
- 570.44 Division of Agricultural Environmental Services; powers and duties.
- 570.45 Director; duties.
- 570.46 Division of Standards; powers and duties.
- 570.47 Director; qualifications; duties.
- 570.48 Division of Fruit and Vegetables; powers and duties; records.
- 570.481 Fruit and vegetable inspection fees; penalty.
- 570.49 Director; duties.
- 570.50 Division of Food Safety; powers and duties.
- 570.51 Director; qualifications; duties.
- 570.53 Division of Marketing and Development; powers and duties.
- 570.531 Market Improvements Working Capital Trust Fund.
- 570.54 Director; duties.
- 570.542 Short title.
- 570.543 Florida Consumers’ Council.
- 570.544 Division of Consumer Services; director; powers; processing of complaints; records.
- 570.545 Unsolicited goods; no obligation on part of recipient.
- 570.548 Division of Forestry; powers and duties.
- 570.549 Director; duties.
- 570.55 Identification of sellers or handlers of tropical or subtropical fruit and vegetables; containers specified; penalties.
- 570.61 Division of Aquaculture; powers and duties.
- 570.62 Director; duties.
- 570.70 Legislative findings.
- 570.71 Conservation easements and agreements.
- 570.72 Definition.
- 570.901 Florida Agricultural Museum.
- 570.902 Definitions; ss. 570.902 and 570.903.
- 570.903 Direct-support organization.
- 570.91 Florida agriculture in the classroom.
- 570.9135 Beef Market Development Act; definitions; Florida Beef Council, Inc., creation, purposes, governing board, powers, and duties; referendum on assessments imposed on gross receipts from cattle
- 570.92 Equestrian educational sports program.
- 570.951 Florida Agriculture Center and Horse Park; legislative findings.
- 570.952 Florida Agriculture Center and Horse Park Authority.
- 570.953 Agriculture Center and Horse Park Authority; donor identity; records; confidentiality.
- 570.954 Farm-to-fuel initiative.
- 570.96 Agritourism.
- 570.961 Definitions.
- 570.962 Agritourism participation impact on land classification.
- 570.97 Gertrude Maxwell Save a Pet Direct-Support Organization.
- Chapter 571 AGRICULTURAL ADVERTISING
- Chapter 573 MARKETING OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
- Chapter 574 SALE OF LEAF TOBACCO
- Chapter 576 AGRICULTURAL FERTILIZERS
- 576.011 Definitions.
- 576.021 Registration and licensing.
- 576.031 Labeling.
- 576.041 Inspection fees; records; bond.
- 576.045 Nitrogen and phosphorus; findings and intent; fees; purpose; best management practices; waiver of liability; compliance; rules; exclusions; expiration.
- 576.051 Inspection, sampling, analysis.
- 576.055 Deconing.
- 576.061 Plant nutrient investigational allowances, deficiencies, and penalties.
- 576.071 Commercial value.
- 576.085 Minimum plant nutrient content.
- 576.087 Antisiphon requirements for irrigation systems.
- 576.091 Fertilizer Technical Council.
- 576.101 Cancellation, revocation, and suspension; probationary status.
- 576.111 Stop-sale, stop-use, removal, or hold orders.
- 576.122 Seizure, condemnation, and sale.
- 576.132 Recovery of damages.
- 576.141 Sales or exchanges between manufacturers or licensees.
- 576.151 Prohibited acts.
- 576.161 Criminal penalties.
- 576.171 Remedy by injunction.
- 576.181 Administration; rules; procedure.
- 576.191 Enforcing official.
- Chapter 578 SEED
- Chapter 580 COMMERCIAL FEED AND FEEDSTUFF
- Chapter 581 PLANT INDUSTRY
- Chapter 582 SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
- 582.01 Definitions.
- 582.02 Lands a basic asset of state.
- 582.03 Consequence of soil erosion.
- 582.04 Appropriate corrective methods.
- 582.05 Legislative policy for conservation.
- 582.055 Powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; rules.
- 582.06 Soil and Water Conservation Council; powers and duties.
- 582.08 Additional powers of department.
- 582.09 Administrative officer of soil and water conservation.
- 582.10 Creation of soil and water conservation districts.
- 582.11 Hearing upon question of creation; notice, etc.
- 582.12 Referendum for creation.
- 582.13 Expenses of referendum.
- 582.14 Results of referendum; publication, etc.
- 582.15 Organization of district, etc.
- 582.16 Addition of territory to district or removal of territory therefrom.
- 582.17 Presumption as to establishment.
- 582.18 Election of supervisors of each district.
- 582.19 Qualifications and tenure of supervisors.
- 582.20 Powers of districts and supervisors.
- 582.21 Adoption of land use regulations.
- 582.22 Regulations; contents.
- 582.23 Performance of work under the regulations by the supervisors.
- 582.24 Board of adjustment.
- 582.25 Rules of procedure of board.
- 582.26 Petition to board to vary from regulations.
- 582.28 Cooperation between districts.
- 582.29 State agencies to cooperate.
- 582.30 Discontinuance of districts; referendum; commissioner’s authority.
- 582.31 Certification of results of referendum; dissolution.
- 582.32 Continuance of existing contracts, etc.
- 582.331 Establishment of watershed improvement districts within soil and water conservation districts authorized.
- 582.34 Petition for establishment; provisions.
- 582.35 Notice and hearing on petition; determination of need for district; boundaries.
- 582.36 Determination of feasibility of proposed district; referendum.
- 582.37 Consideration of results of referendum; declaration of organization of district.
- 582.38 Organization of district; certification to clerks of circuit courts; limitation on tax rate.
- 582.39 Establishment of watershed improvement district situated in more than one soil and water conservation district.
- 582.40 Change of district boundaries; additions, detachments, transfers of land from one district to another; change of district name.
- 582.41 Board of directors of district.
- 582.42 Officers, agents, and employees; surety bonds; annual audit.
- 582.43 Status and general powers of districts; power to levy tax; power to construct, operate, improve and maintain works of improvement; power to obtain necessary lands or interests therein.
- 582.44 Levy of taxes; procedure, etc.
- 582.45 Fiscal powers of governing body; bonds, etc.
- 582.46 Additional powers and authority.
- 582.47 Watershed improvement district to coordinate work with flood control districts.
- 582.48 Discontinuance of watershed improvement district.
- 582.49 Discontinuance of soil and water conservation district.
- Chapter 583 CLASSIFICATION AND SALE OF EGGS AND POULTRY
- Chapter 585 ANIMAL INDUSTRY
- Chapter 586 HONEY CERTIFICATION AND HONEYBEES
- Chapter 588 LEGAL FENCES AND LIVESTOCK AT LARGE
- Chapter 589 FORESTRY
- Chapter 590 FOREST PROTECTION
- Chapter 591 FOREST DEVELOPMENT
- Chapter 593 AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY INSECT CONTROL
- Chapter 597 AQUACULTURE
- Chapter 599 VITICULTURE
- Chapter 600 CITRUS MARKETING
- Chapter 601 FLORIDA CITRUS CODE
- 601.01 Short title.
- 601.02 Purposes.
- 601.03 Definitions.
- 601.04 Florida Citrus Commission; creation and membership.
- 601.045 Department auditor’s report; commission meeting agenda item.
- 601.05 Department of Citrus a body corporate.
- 601.06 Compensation and expenses of commission members.
- 601.07 Location of executive offices.
- 601.08 Authenticated copies of commission records as evidence.
- 601.09 Citrus districts.
- 601.091 Florida SunRidge, Indian River, and Gulf production areas, boundaries and designation.
- 601.10 Powers of the Department of Citrus.
- 601.101 Ownership of rights under patent and trademark laws developed or acquired pursuant to the authorities of this chapter.
- 601.11 Power of Department of Citrus to establish standards.
- 601.111 Department of Citrus authorized to lower maturity standards.
- 601.13 Citrus research; administration by Department of Citrus; appropriation.
- 601.15 Advertising campaign; methods of conducting; excise tax; emergency reserve fund; citrus research.
- 601.152 Special marketing orders.
- 601.155 Equalizing excise tax; credit; exemption.
- 601.16 Grapefruit maturity standards; fresh and processed.
- 601.17 Grapefruit; minimum ratios of solids to acid.
- 601.18 Grapefruit; minimum juice content.
- 601.19 Oranges; maturity standards.
- 601.20 Oranges; minimum ratios of solids to acid.
- 601.21 Tangerine maturity standards.
- 601.22 Tangerines; minimum ratios of solids to acid.
- 601.24 Department of Citrus to prescribe methods of testing and grading.
- 601.25 Determination of soluble solids and acid.
- 601.27 Department of Agriculture; citrus inspectors.
- 601.28 Inspection fees.
- 601.281 Road guard fees.
- 601.29 Powers of Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
- 601.31 Citrus inspectors; employment.
- 601.32 Compensation of inspectors.
- 601.33 Interference with inspectors.
- 601.34 Duties of law enforcement officers.
- 601.35 Disputes as to quality, etc.; procedure.
- 601.36 Inspection information required when two or more lots of fruit run simultaneously.
- 601.37 Unlawful acts of inspectors.
- 601.38 Citrus inspectors; authority.
- 601.39 Special inspectors.
- 601.40 Registration of citrus packinghouses, processing plants with department.
- 601.41 Operation without registration unlawful.
- 601.42 Revocation of registration.
- 601.43 Immature and unfit citrus fruit; individual sampling.
- 601.44 Destruction of immature fruit.
- 601.45 Grading of fresh citrus fruit.
- 601.46 Condition precedent to sale of citrus fruit.
- 601.461 Falsification of weights; penalty.
- 601.47 Condition precedent to processing citrus.
- 601.471 Definition of “canned or concentrated citrus fruit products” expanded.
- 601.48 Grading processed citrus products.
- 601.49 Condition precedent to selling processed citrus products.
- 601.50 Exemptions; sale or shipment of citrus or citrus products for certain purposes.
- 601.501 Charitable shipments tax-exempt.
- 601.51 Certification required for shipment of citrus fruit or products.
- 601.52 Carriers not to accept fruit unless same bears evidence of payment of excise taxes.
- 601.53 Unlawful to process unwholesome citrus.
- 601.54 Seizure of unwholesome fruit by Department of Agriculture’s agents.
- 601.55 Citrus fruit dealer; license required.
- 601.56 Application for dealers’ licenses; requirements.
- 601.57 Examination of application; approval of dealers’ licenses.
- 601.58 Application approval or disapproval.
- 601.59 Dealer’s license fee; agent’s registration fee.
- 601.60 Issuance of dealers’ licenses.
- 601.601 Registration of dealers’ agents.
- 601.61 Bond requirements of citrus fruit dealers.
- 601.611 Applicable law in event ch. 61-389 held invalid.
- 601.64 Citrus fruit dealers; unlawful acts.
- 601.641 Fraudulent representations, penalties.
- 601.65 Liability of citrus fruit dealers.
- 601.66 Complaints of violations by citrus fruit dealers; procedure; bond distribution; court action on bond.
- 601.67 Disciplinary action by Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services against citrus fruit dealers.
- 601.671 Appropriation of fines collected.
- 601.68 Investigation of violations.
- 601.69 Records to be kept by citrus fruit dealers.
- 601.70 Inspection of records by Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
- 601.701 Penalty for failure to keep records.
- 601.72 Penalties for violations.
- 601.73 Additional methods of enforcement.
- 601.731 Transporting citrus on highways; name and dealer designation on vehicles; load identification; penalty.
- 601.74 Adoption of rules; fees for licensing and analysis of processing materials.
- 601.75 Dyes and coloring matter for citrus fruit to be certified prior to use.
- 601.76 Manufacturer to furnish formula and other information.
- 601.77 Subsequent analysis of coloring matter; inspection of packinghouses for application.
- 601.78 Manufacturer to post bond.
- 601.79 To color grapefruit and tangerines prohibited.
- 601.80 Unlawful to use uncertified coloring matter.
- 601.85 Standard shipping box for fresh fruit.
- 601.86 Standard field boxes for fresh citrus fruit.
- 601.87 Use of cleats on boxes.
- 601.88 Oversized boxes to be stamped.
- 601.89 Citrus fruit; when damaged by freezing.
- 601.90 Freeze-damaged citrus fruit; power of commission.
- 601.901 Use of freeze-damaged fruit in frozen concentrated citrus products.
- 601.91 Unlawful to sell, transport, prepare, receive, or deliver freeze-damaged citrus.
- 601.92 Use of arsenic in connection with citrus.
- 601.93 Sale of citrus containing arsenic.
- 601.94 Fruit containing arsenic; powers of inspection.
- 601.95 Seizure of citrus fruit containing arsenic.
- 601.96 Seized fruit; taking samples for analysis.
- 601.97 Destruction of certain fruit containing arsenic.
- 601.98 Shipment, sale, or offer of imported citrus fruit or citrus products.
- 601.981 Permits for export to foreign countries.
- 601.99 Unlawful to misbrand wrappers or packages containing citrus fruit.
- 601.9901 Certificates of inspection; form.
- 601.9902 Payment of salaries and expenses; Department of Citrus.
- 601.9903 Annual report of Department of Citrus.
- 601.99035 Annual travel report of Department of Citrus.
- 601.99036 Approval of specified salary changes.
- 601.9904 Rules and regulations; frozen citrus juices.
- 601.9905 Canned orange juice; standards; labeling.
- 601.9906 Processed grapefruit juice products; standards.
- 601.9907 Canned blended juice; standards; labeling.
- 601.9908 Canned tangerine juice; standards; labeling.
- 601.9909 Frozen concentrated orange juice; requirements; labeling.
- 601.9910 Legislative findings of fact; strict enforcement of maturity standard in public interest.
- 601.9911 Fruit may be sold or transported direct from producer.
- 601.9912 Penalties.
- 601.9913 High-density frozen concentrated orange juice; standards; labeling.
- 601.9914 Commission authorized to modify standards by rule.
- 601.9916 Addition of optional nutritive sweetening ingredients to concentrated orange juice; rules.
- 601.9918 Rules related to issuance and use of symbols.
- 601.992 Collection of dues and other payments on behalf of certain nonprofit corporations engaged in market news and grower education.
- Chapter 603 FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
- Chapter 604 GENERAL AGRICULTURAL LAWS
- 604.001 Public policy with respect to agricultural production.
- 604.006 Mapping and monitoring of agricultural lands.
- 604.01 Statewide soil survey and mapping; declaration of policy.
- 604.02 Costs of surveys, by whom payable.
- 604.04 Administration of law.
- 604.05 Standard procedure to be used; cooperation with federal and other agencies.
- 604.06 Determination of soils to be surveyed.
- 604.07 Analyses of type materials.
- 604.08 Reports; maps; publications.
- 604.09 Limited agricultural association; purpose of law.
- 604.10 Limited agricultural association; powers, membership.
- 604.11 Limited agricultural association; formation, fees.
- 604.12 Limited agricultural association; articles of association, name.
- 604.13 Limited agricultural association; bylaws.
- 604.14 Limited agricultural association; dissolution.
- 604.15 Dealers in agricultural products; definitions.
- 604.151 Purpose.
- 604.16 Exceptions to provisions of ss. 604.15-604.34.
- 604.17 License required.
- 604.18 Application; form; contents.
- 604.19 License; fee; bond; certificate of deposit; penalty.
- 604.20 Bond or certificate of deposit prerequisite; amount; form.
- 604.21 Complaint; investigation; hearing.
- 604.211 Limitation on successive consignments.
- 604.22 Dealers to keep records; contents.
- 604.23 Examination of records, sales, accounts, books, and other documents.
- 604.25 Refusal to grant, or suspension or revocation of, license.
- 604.27 Rules.
- 604.28 Department may employ help.
- 604.29 License fees; disposition.
- 604.30 Penalties; injunctive relief; administrative fines.
- 604.32 Grain dealers to provide delivery tickets.
- 604.33 Security requirements for grain dealers.
- 604.34 When grain dealer required to pay for grain delivered.
- 604.40 Farm equipment.
- 604.50 Nonresidential farm buildings.
- 604.60 Damage or destruction of agricultural products or agricultural production systems; civil action.