2-1201.   Definitions.(1) The term "commercial fertilizer" means any substance designed,intended, used or susceptible for use to supply food for plants or toincrease crops produced by land, except the following: (a) Limestone(calcium carbonate), (b) dolomite (calcium magnesium carbonate), (c) lime(calcium oxide), (d) slaked lime (calcium hydroxide), (e) gypsum (calciumsulphate), (f) the dung of domestic animals, (g) compost, and (h)fertilizer materials.The term commercial fertilizer shall also include specialty fertilizer asdefined below.

      (2)   The term "fertilizer materials" means any substance containing plantfood elements or compounds in possession of manufacturers for use incompounding mixed commercial fertilizers.

      (3)   The term "brand" means the name, number, trademark, trade name orother designation of a commercial fertilizer.

      (4)   The term "grade" means the minimum percentages of total nitrogen,available phosphoric acid, and soluble potash, stated in the order given inthis definition. When applied to mixed or blended fertilizers, wholenumbers only shall be given.

      (5)   The term "person" includes individual, partnership, association,firm and corporation.

      (6)   The term "secretary" means the secretary of agriculture.

      (7)   The term "label" means a display of written, printed, or graphicmatter upon or affixed to the container in which a commercial fertilizer isdistributed, or on the invoice slip or delivery slip with which acommercial fertilizer or custom blended fertilizer is distributed.

      (8)   The term "custom blended fertilizer" means a fertilizer blendedaccording to specifications furnished by the customers prior to blending.

      (9)   The term "custom blender" means any person who blends onlyregistered commercial fertilizers at the request of and according tospecifications furnished by the customer-purchaser.

      (10)   The term "specialty fertilizer" means a commercial fertilizerdistributed primarily for nonfarm use, such as home gardens, lawns, shrubbery,flowers, golf courses, municipal parks, cemeteries, greenhouses and nurseries,and may include commercial fertilizers used for research or experimentalpurposes and is not used primarily for application to crops produced forcommercial value.

      (11)   The term "process tankage" means a product made under steam pressurefrom crude inert nitrogenous materials such as horn, hoof, hair, feathers orother similarly inert nitrogenous matter, for the purpose of increasing theactivity of nitrogen. The water-insoluble nitrogen in these products shall testat least 50% by the alkaline method or at least 80% by the neutral permanganatemethod.

      (12)   The term "ammonium nitrate" means chiefly the ammonium salt of nitricacid and contains not less than 33% nitrogen, 1/2 of which is in the ammoniumform and 1/2 in the nitrate form.

      (13)   The term "ammonium nitrate dealer" means any person operating a businessthat is engaged in the distribution or sale of ammonium nitrate. The term"ammonium nitrate dealer" shall not include an end-user who is engaged in thephysical act of application of ammonium nitrate as a commercial fertilizer andis not also engaged in further sale or distribution of ammonium nitrate.

      History:   L. 1927, ch. 14, § 1;L. 1949, ch. 2, § 1;L. 1963, ch. 5, § 1;L. 1992, ch. 195, § 2;L. 2004, ch. 101, § 21;L. 2007, ch. 136, § 1; July 1.