The department may require a person producing, selling or offering for sale or shipping or transporting any nursery or florist stock within the state to affix or have printed on each package of stock a certification statement as prescribed by the department. When a certification statement is required, it is unlawful for any transportation company, public carrier, commercial truck or other agency engaged in the business of transportation to ship, transport or accept for shipment any package of nursery or florist stock until the required certification statement is attached to the package.
History: 1953 Comp., § 45-8-34, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 195, § 13; 1973, ch. 97, § 12; 1979, ch. 193, § 7; 2013, ch. 15, § 8.
The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, permitted the department of agriculture to require persons selling or transporting nursery or florist stock to affix a certification statement to each package of stock; prohibited the transportation of nursery or florist stock without fixing a certification statement to the package when a certification statement is required; in the first sentence, at the beginning of the sentence, deleted "Every" and added "The department may require a", after "stock within the state", deleted "shall have affixed", after "stock within the state to", added "affix", and after "within the state to affix or", added "have"; and in the second sentence, at the beginning of the sentence, added "When a certification statement is required" and after "certification statement is attached", deleted "thereto" and added "to the package".
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 3 C.J.S. Agriculture § 90.
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