A. Sections 8-77.1 through 8-77.18 of this subarticle shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Fertilizer Act".
B. The purpose of the Oklahoma Fertilizer Act is to provide assurances to the consumer that fertilizer products are properly identified, and that the quality represented by the manufacturer is accurate as well as for regulation of the storage, use, and application of fertilizer to protect the consumer and the environment.
C. The Legislature hereby occupies and preempts the entire field of legislation in this state touching in any way the regulation and enforcement of the registration, labeling, sale, storage, transportation, distribution, notification of use, and agricultural use of fertilizer to the complete exclusion of any order, ordinance or regulation by any municipality or other political subdivision of this state.
D. No political subdivision shall regulate the registration, packaging, labeling, sale, storage, distribution, agricultural use or application of fertilizer. No political subdivision shall adopt or continue in effect local orders, ordinances, or regulations in this field, except for those relating to nonagricultural use or application or taxation relating to registration, packaging, labeling, sale, storage, distribution, use or application of fertilizers. Local legislation in violation of this section is void and unenforceable.
Added by Laws 2000, c. 367, § 103, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000. Amended by Laws 2002, c. 383, § 3, eff. July 1, 2002; Laws 2005, c. 177, § 1, eff. July 1, 2005.
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