(a) A soil test indicates that additional phosphorus is needed for growth of that lawn or non-agricultural turf; or

(b) The phosphorus fertilizer is used for newly established lawn or non-agricultural turf during the first growing season. 2. Any retailer selling or offering for sale phosphorus fertilizer for use on lawn or non-agricultural turf shall comply with the retail sale requirements in section one hundred forty-six-g of the agriculture and markets law related to display of phosphorus fertilizer and the posting of educational signs. 3. No person shall apply fertilizer to:

(a) lawn or non-agricultural turf between December first and April first, annually;

(b) any impervious surface including parking lots, roadways, and sidewalks. If such application occurs, the fertilizer must be immediately contained and either legally applied to lawn or non-agricultural turf or placed in an appropriate container; or

(c) any lawn or non-agricultural turf on any real property within twenty feet of any surface water, except that this restriction shall not apply where a continuous natural vegetative buffer, at least ten feet wide, separates an area of lawn or non-agricultural turf and surface water, and except that, where a spreader guard, deflector shield or drop spreader is used to apply fertilizer, such application may not occur within three feet of any surface water. This paragraph shall not apply to an application of fertilizer for newly established lawn or non-agricultural turf during the first growing season. 4. Nothing in this title shall impair or supersede the authority of the commissioner of agriculture and markets pursuant to articles ten and twenty-five-AA of the agriculture and markets law.