2-1201.Definitions.
(1) The term "commercial fertilizer" means any substance designed,
intended, used or susceptible for use to supply food for plants or to
increase 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 (calcium
sulphate), (f) the dung of domestic animals, (g) compost, and (h)
fertilizer materials.
The term commercial fertilizer shall also include specialty fertilizer as
defined below.
(2) The term "fertilizer materials" means any substance containing plant
food elements or compounds in possession of manufacturers for use in
compounding mixed commercial fertilizers.
(3) The term "brand" means the name, number, trademark, trade name or
other 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 in
this definition. When applied to mixed or blended fertilizers, whole
numbers 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 graphic
matter upon or affixed to the container in which a commercial fertilizer is
distributed, or on the invoice slip or delivery slip with which a
commercial fertilizer or custom blended fertilizer is distributed.
(8) The term "custom blended fertilizer" means a fertilizer blended
according to specifications furnished by the customers prior to blending.
(9) The term "custom blender" means any person who blends only
registered commercial fertilizers at the request of and according to
specifications furnished by the customer-purchaser.
(10) The term "specialty fertilizer" means a commercial fertilizer
distributed 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 experimental
purposes and is not used primarily for application to crops produced for
commercial value.
(11) The term "process tankage" means a product made under steam pressure
from crude inert nitrogenous materials such as horn, hoof, hair, feathers or
other similarly inert nitrogenous matter, for the purpose of increasing the
activity of nitrogen. The water-insoluble nitrogen in these products shall test
at least 50% by the alkaline method or at least 80% by the neutral permanganate
method.
(12) The term "ammonium nitrate" means chiefly the ammonium salt of nitric
acid and contains not less than 33% nitrogen, 1/2 of which is in the ammonium
form and 1/2 in the nitrate form.
(13) The term "ammonium nitrate dealer" means any person operating a business
that 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 the
physical act of application of ammonium nitrate as a commercial fertilizer and
is 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.
2-1201.Definitions.
(1) The term "commercial fertilizer" means any substance designed,
intended, used or susceptible for use to supply food for plants or to
increase 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 (calcium
sulphate), (f) the dung of domestic animals, (g) compost, and (h)
fertilizer materials.
The term commercial fertilizer shall also include specialty fertilizer as
defined below.
(2) The term "fertilizer materials" means any substance containing plant
food elements or compounds in possession of manufacturers for use in
compounding mixed commercial fertilizers.
(3) The term "brand" means the name, number, trademark, trade name or
other 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 in
this definition. When applied to mixed or blended fertilizers, whole
numbers 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 graphic
matter upon or affixed to the container in which a commercial fertilizer is
distributed, or on the invoice slip or delivery slip with which a
commercial fertilizer or custom blended fertilizer is distributed.
(8) The term "custom blended fertilizer" means a fertilizer blended
according to specifications furnished by the customers prior to blending.
(9) The term "custom blender" means any person who blends only
registered commercial fertilizers at the request of and according to
specifications furnished by the customer-purchaser.
(10) The term "specialty fertilizer" means a commercial fertilizer
distributed 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 experimental
purposes and is not used primarily for application to crops produced for
commercial value.
(11) The term "process tankage" means a product made under steam pressure
from crude inert nitrogenous materials such as horn, hoof, hair, feathers or
other similarly inert nitrogenous matter, for the purpose of increasing the
activity of nitrogen. The water-insoluble nitrogen in these products shall test
at least 50% by the alkaline method or at least 80% by the neutral permanganate
method.
(12) The term "ammonium nitrate" means chiefly the ammonium salt of nitric
acid and contains not less than 33% nitrogen, 1/2 of which is in the ammonium
form and 1/2 in the nitrate form.
(13) The term "ammonium nitrate dealer" means any person operating a business
that 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 the
physical act of application of ammonium nitrate as a commercial fertilizer and
is 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.
2-1201.Definitions.
(1) The term "commercial fertilizer" means any substance designed,
intended, used or susceptible for use to supply food for plants or to
increase 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 (calcium
sulphate), (f) the dung of domestic animals, (g) compost, and (h)
fertilizer materials.
The term commercial fertilizer shall also include specialty fertilizer as
defined below.
(2) The term "fertilizer materials" means any substance containing plant
food elements or compounds in possession of manufacturers for use in
compounding mixed commercial fertilizers.
(3) The term "brand" means the name, number, trademark, trade name or
other 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 in
this definition. When applied to mixed or blended fertilizers, whole
numbers 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 graphic
matter upon or affixed to the container in which a commercial fertilizer is
distributed, or on the invoice slip or delivery slip with which a
commercial fertilizer or custom blended fertilizer is distributed.
(8) The term "custom blended fertilizer" means a fertilizer blended
according to specifications furnished by the customers prior to blending.
(9) The term "custom blender" means any person who blends only
registered commercial fertilizers at the request of and according to
specifications furnished by the customer-purchaser.
(10) The term "specialty fertilizer" means a commercial fertilizer
distributed 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 experimental
purposes and is not used primarily for application to crops produced for
commercial value.
(11) The term "process tankage" means a product made under steam pressure
from crude inert nitrogenous materials such as horn, hoof, hair, feathers or
other similarly inert nitrogenous matter, for the purpose of increasing the
activity of nitrogen. The water-insoluble nitrogen in these products shall test
at least 50% by the alkaline method or at least 80% by the neutral permanganate
method.
(12) The term "ammonium nitrate" means chiefly the ammonium salt of nitric
acid and contains not less than 33% nitrogen, 1/2 of which is in the ammonium
form and 1/2 in the nitrate form.
(13) The term "ammonium nitrate dealer" means any person operating a business
that 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 the
physical act of application of ammonium nitrate as a commercial fertilizer and
is 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.