Michigan Statutes

Chapter 286 - AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

Act 6 of 1919 (Ex. Sess.) - EXTERMINATION OF GRASSHOPPERS AND SIMILAR PESTS (286.121 - 286.123)
- Section 286.121 - Extermination of grasshoppers, similar pests; county appropriation.
- Section 286.122 - Extermination of grasshoppers, similar pests; township appropriation.
- Section 286.123 - Expense; payment.
Act 6 of 1959 - GRAPE GROWERS; USE OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES (286.401 - 286.406)
- Section 286.401 - Grape growers; chemical substances; definitions.
- Section 286.402 - Chemical substances; petition by grape grower for prohibition.
- Section 286.403 - Chemical substances; hearing, posting of notice.
- Section 286.404 - Chemical substances; director's findings; damage; orders, continuing effect.
- Section 286.405 - Chemical substances; orders, effective date.
- Section 286.406 - Chemical substances; penalty for violation.
Act 26 of 1885 - Repealed-INSPECTION AND SALE OF COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS (286.31 - 286.39)
Act 26 of 1935 - Repealed-BEES (286.1 - 286.22)
Act 72 of 1945 - INSECT PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES (286.251 - 286.260)
- Section 286.251 - Examinations for insects or infectious diseases; marking; notice to destroy, posting; appeals.
- Section 286.252 - Orders of commissioner; refusal to carry out.
- Section 286.253 - Declaration as public nuisances.
- Section 286.254 - Report of inspections.
- Section 286.255 - Authority to enter upon premises; treatment to prevent spread of disease; owners recompensed for loss.
- Section 286.256 - Commissioner may make rules and regulations; quarantines.
- Section 286.257 - Liability of agent.
- Section 286.259 - Violation of act; misdemeanor; penalty; applicability of subsection (1).
- Section 286.260 - Violation of rule or order; civil infraction; fine; misdemeanor; felony; penalties; liability.
Act 76 of 1929 - Repealed-EUROPEAN CORN BORER (286.321 - 286.322)
Act 86 of 1929 - CHERRY PESTS (286.81 - 286.87)
- Section 286.81 - Protection of cherry crops.
- Section 286.82 - Control regulations; enforcement.
- Section 286.83 - Right of access; unlawful acts.
- Section 286.84 - Violation of act; penalty.
- Section 286.85 - Treatment by owner or commissioner; expense, enforcement of payment.
- Section 286.86 - Liability of agent or employe.
- Section 286.87 - Commissioner's appointment of assistants and employes.
Act 93 of 1981 - MICHIGAN RIGHT TO FARM ACT (286.471 - 286.474)
- Section 286.471 - Short title.
- Section 286.472 - Definitions.
- Section 286.473 - Farm or farm operation as public or private nuisance; review and revision of practices; finding; conditions.
- Section 286.473a - Repealed. 1999, Act 261, Eff. Mar. 10, 2000.
- Section 286.473b - Recovery of costs and expenses.
- Section 286.473c - Property subject to disclosure; contents of statement.
- Section 286.474 - Investigation of complaints involving farm or farm operation; memorandum of understanding; generally accepted agricultural and management practices; unverified complaints; applicabil
Act 116 of 1978 - THE JOHN C. HERTEL TOXIC SUBSTANCE CONTROL COMMISSION ACT (286.181 - 286.194)
- Section 286.181 - Short title.
- Section 286.182 - Definitions.
- Section 286.183 - State toxic substance control commission; creation; exercise of powers, duties, and functions; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; vacancy; election of chairperson and
- Section 286.184 - Commission; grounds for removal of member.
- Section 286.185 - Commission; compensation and expenses.
- Section 286.186 - Commission; duties generally.
- Section 286.187 - Declaration of toxic substance emergency; activities of commission; petition to restrain condition or practice; cessation or continuation of emergency.
- Section 286.188 - Commission; additional duties.
- Section 286.189 - Commission; powers generally.
- Section 286.190 - Confidentiality of trade secrets.
- Section 286.191 - Toxic substance emergency fund; creation; expenditures.
- Section 286.192 - Reporting abnormality or irregularity in health or behavior; failure to make report.
- Section 286.193 - Violation as misdemeanor; penalties.
- Section 286.194 - Effective date; applicability of act; study committee to recommend future status of commission; appointment; report.
Act 137 of 1935 - CHEMICAL LABORATORIES; FRUIT PROTECTION (286.341 - 286.345)
- Section 286.341 - Chemical laboratories; fruit growing sections; poisonous spray residue; examination, certificate, fees.
- Section 286.342 - Chemical laboratories; voluntary submission of samples; fee; certificate.
- Section 286.343 - Chemical laboratories; establishment by private concerns; supervision, regulations.
- Section 286.344 - Appropriation for state chemical laboratories.
- Section 286.345 - Rules and regulations; enforcement by commissioner of agriculture.
Act 160 of 1966 - OVERNIGHT REST CAMPS FOR MIGRANT AGRICULTURAL WORKERS (286.641 - 286.644)
- Section 286.641 - Overnight rest camps for migrant agricultural workers; selection of sites.
- Section 286.642 - Minimum size of camp, and minimum facilities; time of operation.
- Section 286.643 - Rules and regulations; promulgation.
- Section 286.644 - Authorization or expenditure of federal and other funds, limitation.
Act 171 of 1976 - Repealed-PESTICIDE CONTROL ACT (286.551 - 286.581)
Act 187 of 1965 - PEST CONTROL COMPACT (286.501 - 286.507)
- Section 286.501 - Pest control compact; findings, definitions, insurance fund, assistance, committees, relations, finance, entrance and withdrawal, construction.
- Section 286.502 - Cooperation by state departments, agencies and officers with insurance fund.
- Section 286.503 - Bylaws and amendments; filing.
- Section 286.504 - Compact administrator; duties.
- Section 286.505 - Insurance fund; application for assistance.
- Section 286.506 - Credit to account of department liable for expenditure.
- Section 286.507 - Executive head; definition.
Act 188 of 1965 - HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES ACT (286.451 - 286.463)
- Section 286.451 - Hazardous substances act; short title.
- Section 286.452 - Definitions.
- Section 286.453 - Declaration of hazardous or banned substance; establishment of reasonable variations or additional label requirements; failure of hazardous substance to bear label; exempted substanc
- Section 286.454 - Prohibited acts.
- Section 286.455 - Violation as misdemeanor or felony; penalties; persons not subject to penalties.
- Section 286.456 - Injunction; mailing copy of application or complaint to administrator.
- Section 286.457 - Tagging or marking misbranded or banned hazardous substance; permission for removal or disposal of detained or embargoed article; petition to condemn article; destruction of article;
- Section 286.458 - Court proceedings for reported violation; notice; opportunity to present views.
- Section 286.459 - Rules; adoption of federal regulations; additional rules or amendments; notice of imminent hazard.
- Section 286.460 - Factory or warehouse; entry and inspection, samples, receipt.
- Section 286.461 - Carriers, access to records; admissibility of evidence in criminal prosecution.
- Section 286.462 - Publication of reports; dissemination of information.
- Section 286.463 - Repealed. 1982, Act 54, Imd. Eff. Apr. 6, 1982.
Act 189 of 1931 - THE INSECT PEST AND PLANT DISEASE ACT (286.201 - 286.228)
- Section 286.201 - Insect pest and plant disease act; short title.
- Section 286.202 - Definitions.
- Section 286.203 - Inspection of nursery and other premises; right of access.
- Section 286.204 - Inspection of stock before sale; application; assumed name.
- Section 286.205 - Nursery stock from foreign country; inspection.
- Section 286.206 - Annual inspections of nurseries, heeling-in grounds, cellars, or warehouses; fee; certificate of inspection; term; unlawful sale, shipment or certificate; basis for charging inspecti
- Section 286.207 - Withholding certificate; precautions; fraud, investigation, revocation of license.
- Section 286.208 - Sale of dead or weakened nursery stock; penalty.
- Section 286.209 - License required for sale of nursery stock; application; plant growers or plant dealers; payment, disposition, and use of fees; agriculture licensing and inspection fees fund; hortic
- Section 286.210 - Licenses to sell nursery stock; buyers and dealers; certificate to deal in inspected stock, number of licenses.
- Section 286.211 - Nonresident nurseryman, dealer, or grower; license required; fee; waiver; reciprocal agreements; violation as grounds for denial of right to ship nursery stock.
- Section 286.212 - Licenses to sell nursery stocks; agent's permit, fee; list of agents, transfer of permits.
- Section 286.213 - Revocation, suspension or withholding of license or certificate; hearing; appeal.
- Section 286.214 - Revocation, suspension or withholding of license or certificate; hearing, order of revocation; penalty for wrongful use of license on certificate, withholding.
- Section 286.215 - Tags on stock; inspection of imported stock on request; expense.
- Section 286.216 - Tags on stock; certificate of inspection; unlawful transportation; report to commissioner.
- Section 286.216a - Definitions; sale, distribution, or use of purple loosestrife.
- Section 286.217 - Sale of stock; inspection, transportation of nursery stock, native trees, perennials, shrubs; uninspected stock.
- Section 286.218 - Nuisances; public places kept free from injurious insect pests and plant diseases; insects, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, viruses or living plant parasitic organisms; permits.
- Section 286.219 - Barberry, mahonia or mahoberberis bushes subject to black stem rust of small grains; destruction; rules.
- Section 286.219a - Chokecherry harmful to peach or cherry trees prohibited; destruction; rules.
- Section 286.220 - Insect pests and plant diseases; eradication of nuisances; notice; abatement; inspection; payment of expenses.
- Section 286.221 - Inspection of public grounds; application, payment of expense.
- Section 286.222 - Inspection of plants and plant products before interstate shipment; expenses, certificate.
- Section 286.223 - Quarantine; enforcement, hearing, notice.
- Section 286.223a - Rules.
- Section 286.224 - Violation of act; penalty, quarantine, misdemeanor.
- Section 286.225 - Review of rule or order; appeal to circuit court.
- Section 286.226 - Violation of act; penalty.
- Section 286.228 - Violation of certain laws, rules, or orders; civil infraction; fines; limitation; misdemeanor; felony; liability; "person" defined; applicability.
Act 196 of 1925 - Repealed-EUROPEAN CORN BORER (286.301 - 286.305)
Act 197 of 1970 - Repealed-REMODELING HOUSING FOR MIGRATORY WORKERS (286.611 - 286.616)
Act 198 of 1975 - Repealed-FERTILIZER ACT OF 1975 (286.751 - 286.767)
Act 199 of 1996 - MICHIGAN AQUACULTURE DEVELOPMENT ACT (286.871 - 286.884)
- Section 286.871 - Short title.
- Section 286.872 - Definitions.
- Section 286.873 - Administration of act; assistance by department.
- Section 286.874 - Aquaculture as agricultural enterprise; products as property of aquaculturist; riparian rights for water diversion; exemption from certain restrictions; limitations on authority of a
- Section 286.875 - Approved species for aquaculture production; list.
- Section 286.876 - Registration required; exceptions; records; documentation.
- Section 286.877 - Initial application; submission; inspection; issuance of registration or permit; denial; notice; second inspection; hearing; return of registration or permit fee prohibited; contents
- Section 286.878 - Research of aquaculture species not on approved list; research permit; approval of protocol.
- Section 286.879 - Inspection of facilities by department; access; conduct; conditions.
- Section 286.880 - Prohibited conduct.
- Section 286.881 - Failure to comply with act or rules; authority of department to deny, suspend, revoke, or limit registration or permit; conduct of proceeding.
- Section 286.882 - Rules.
- Section 286.883 - Violation as misdemeanor; penalty; costs; attorney fees; authority of director; actions brought by attorney general or director.
- Section 286.884 - Effective date.
Act 221 of 1959 - CERTIFICATION OF SEED (286.71 - 286.75)
- Section 286.71 - Certification of seeds; definitions.
- Section 286.72 - Director as legal seed certifying officer; rules; standards; sale and advertising for sale of group of seed having common characteristics within species; conditions.
- Section 286.73 - Official seed certifying agencies; designation; fees; liability.
- Section 286.74 - Repealed. 1995, Act 66, Imd. Eff. May 31, 1995.
- Section 286.75 - Violation of act; penalty; seizure of mislabeled seeds.
Act 228 of 1959 - FRUITS AND VEGETABLES; CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE STORAGE (286.371 - 286.379)
- Section 286.371 - Definitions.
- Section 286.372 - Controlled atmosphere storage for fruits and vegetables; prohibited representations.
- Section 286.372a - Construction of storage room, space, or building; installation and maintenance of thermometer; accessibility of gas analyzer.
- Section 286.373 - Record; location; contents; review.
- Section 286.374 - Rules and regulations.
- Section 286.374a - Sealed storage room; conditions.
- Section 286.375 - Controlled atmosphere storage for fruits and vegetables; license, application, fee, inspection, expiration, renewal, exemption.
- Section 286.376 - License; denial, suspension, or revocation; notice and opportunity for hearing; administrative fine; warning; action by attorney general to recover fine; injunction; disposition of p
- Section 286.377, 286.378 - Repealed. 2000, Act 53, Imd. Eff. Mar. 30, 2000.
- Section 286.379 - Violation of act as misdemeanor; penalty.
Act 233 of 1959 - Repealed-USE OF ECONOMIC POISONS (286.411 - 286.420)
Act 234 of 1966 - LICENSING AND REGULATION OF EMIGRANT AGENTS (286.651 - 286.657)
- Section 286.651 - Emigrant agents; definition.
- Section 286.652 - Exemption from act of certain employment agencies.
- Section 286.653 - License; necessity; application; form; fee; bond; cancellation, hearing, grounds.
- Section 286.654 - Weekly report; filing; failure to file; contents.
- Section 286.655 - Agent to carry license; inspection.
- Section 286.656 - Violation of act; penalty.
- Section 286.657 - Effective date.
Act 247 of 1993 - Repealed-GROUNDWATER AND FRESHWATER PROTECTION ACT (286.851 - 286.868)
Act 254 of 1913 - Repealed-INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES (286.151 - 286.160)
Act 288 of 1965 - TRANSPORTATION OF MIGRANT AGRICULTURAL WORKERS (286.601 - 286.602)
- Section 286.601 - Transportation of migrant agricultural workers; minimum safety standards, rules and regulations.
- Section 286.602 - Encouragement of compliance with safety regulations.
Act 289 of 1965 - Repealed-AGRICULTURAL LABOR CAMPS (286.621 - 286.634)
Act 297 of 1949 - Repealed-THE INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT OF 1949 (286.161 - 286.173)
Act 313 of 1929 - WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST (286.101 - 286.112)
- Section 286.101 - White pine blister rust; definitions.
- Section 286.102 - White pine blister rust; declared dangerous pest; enforcement of act; other state departments.
- Section 286.103 - White pine blister rust; destruction of plants.
- Section 286.104 - Cultivated black currant declared public nuisance; destruction.
- Section 286.105 - White pine blister rust; blister rust control areas; fruiting currant and gooseberry control areas; destruction of plants, expense.
- Section 286.106 - White pine blister rust; destruction of plants; compensation to owner; noxious weeds.
- Section 286.107 - Right of entry by commissioner of agriculture.
- Section 286.108 - White pine blister rust; co-operation; rust control on state lands.
- Section 286.109 - Entry or movement of certain plants.
- Section 286.112 - Violation of act; penalty.
Act 314 of 1923 - Repealed-AGRICULTURAL SEEDS (286.51 - 286.63)
Act 316 of 2000 - MICHIGAN ORGANIC PRODUCTS ACT (286.901 - 286.931)
- Section 286.901 - Short title.
- Section 286.903 - Definitions; A to D.
- Section 286.905 - Definitions; G to L.
- Section 286.907 - Definitions; M to P.
- Section 286.909 - Definitions; R to W.
- Section 286.911 - Authority of department to regulate, promote, and assist organic industry; sale, offer for sale, or representation as organic product; registration required.
- Section 286.913 - Production, sale, or handling of organic products; certification required; exceptions; retail food establishments.
- Section 286.915 - Registration as certifying agent; fee; demonstration of compliance; expiration; renewal.
- Section 286.917 - Registration as certifying agent; demonstration of compliance; requirements.
- Section 286.919 - Registration of handler; application; fee; basis; schedule; coordination of registration procedures.
- Section 286.920 - Organic products fund; establishment in state treasury; receipt, deposit, and expenditure of funds; carrying forward unexpended funds.
- Section 286.921 - Rules; scope.
- Section 286.922 - Reciprocity agreement with another state, country, or private certifying organization.
- Section 286.923 - Labeling and advertisement; requirements; circumstances considered as mislabeling.
- Section 286.925 - Organic advisory committee; creation; powers and duties; membership; terms; travel reimbursement; election of officers and adoption of rules; quorum; meetings; proceedings subject to
- Section 286.927 - Complaints and investigations; penalties or remedies; rules; denial of application; suspension or revocation of registration; seizure of product; disposition; written notice of warni
- Section 286.929 - Violation of act or rule; administrative fine; misdemeanor; penalty; affirmative defense; felony.
- Section 286.931 - Effective date.
Act 329 of 1965 - MICHIGAN SEED LAW (286.701 - 286.716)
- Section 286.701 - Michigan seed law; short title.
- Section 286.702 - Definitions.
- Section 286.703 - Agricultural, vegetable, or flower seed container; label or tag; information.
- Section 286.704 - Agricultural seed, mixtures of agricultural seed, and vegetable seed in containers of more than 1 pound; required information.
- Section 286.705 - Vegetable seed in containers of 1 pound or less and flower seed; required information; seed sold outside original container; treated vegetable and flower seed.
- Section 286.706 - Forest tree seed; required information.
- Section 286.707 - Seed treated with substance harmful to vertebrate animals; color; label information; description of treated seed not harmful to vertebrate animals.
- Section 286.707a - Field beans.
- Section 286.708 - Correction of erroneous or unlawful seed labels; removal of seed from sale; obtaining and replacing labels.
- Section 286.709 - Seed; circumstances prohibiting selling, offering for sale, advertising, exposing, or transporting for sale; unlawful conduct.
- Section 286.710 - Applicability of MCL 286.703.
- Section 286.711 - Duties of director; field bean inspections and analyses performed by person or agency; liability.
- Section 286.711a - Field bean advisory committee.
- Section 286.712, 286.713 - Repealed. 1988, Act 455, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 1988.
- Section 286.714 - Prohibition or regulation of labeling, sale, storage, transportation, distribution, use, or planting of certain seeds; ordinances by local government prohibited; exceptions.
- Section 286.715 - Violation as misdemeanor; penalty; stop sale order; appeal; hearing; seizure of seed; condemnation of seed; application for release of seed or permission to condition or relabel seed
- Section 286.716 - Repealed. 2006, Act 132, Imd. Eff. May 5, 2006.
Act 358 of 1921 - Repealed-DESTRUCTION OF GRASSHOPPERS AND SIMILAR PESTS (286.131 - 286.135)
Act 412 of 1976 - APIARY LAW (286.801 - 286.821)
- Section 286.801 - Definitions.
- Section 286.802-286.804 - Repealed. 1993, Act 108, Imd. Eff. July 16, 1993.
- Section 286.805 - Repealed. 1982, Act 443, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 1982.
- Section 286.805a-286.808 - Repealed. 1993, Act 108, Imd. Eff. July 16, 1993.
- Section 286.808a - Control or eradication of bee disease; order to destroy colonies; indemnification.
- Section 286.809, 286.810 - Repealed. 1993, Act 108, Imd. Eff. July 16, 1993.
- Section 286.811 - Bees; quarantine; rules.
- Section 286.812, 286.813 - Repealed. 1993, Act 108, Imd. Eff. July 16, 1993.
- Section 286.814 - Shipping bees or beekeeping equipment into another state or country; application for inspection; acknowledgment to pay expenses; compliance with request.
- Section 286.815, 286.816 - Repealed. 1993, Act 108, Imd. Eff. July 16, 1993.
- Section 286.821 - Repeal of MCL 286.1 to 286.22.
Act 417 of 2006 - ANHYDROUS AMMONIA SECURITY ACT (286.771 - 286.775)
- Section 286.771 - Short title.
- Section 286.773 - Definitions.
- Section 286.775 - AASSPs; issuance by commission; safe and secure storage practices; consideration to information and recommendations.
E.R.O. No. 1996-3 - EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION ORDER (286.731 - 286.731)
- Section 286.731 - Transfer of powers and duties of field bean advisory committee to director of department of agriculture; abolishment of the field bean advisory committee.
E.R.O. No. 2007-26 - EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION ORDER (286.891 - 286.891)
- Section 286.891 - Abolishment of organic advisory committee and transfer of its powers and duties to department of agriculture.