22-601 Title
22-602 Administration
22-603 Definitions
22-604 Adoption of Rules
22-605 Registration of Products and Storage Facilities
22-606 Formulas
22-607 Labels — Information Required
22-610 Inspection — Sampling
22-611 Penalties
22-612 Assessment of Penalties
22-613 Misbranding
22-614 Adulteration
22-615 Publication of Information
22-616 “Stop Sale” Orders
22-617 Complaint for Seizure — Hearing
22-618 Violations
22-619 Remedies for Violations
22-620 Use of Funds Received
22-621 Cooperation With Other Governmental Agencies
22-622 No Affect On Existing Liability
22-623 Not Applicable to Wholesale Transactions
22-624 Severability
22-625 Statements of Uniform Interpretation and Policy
22-626 Local Legislation — Prohibition

Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 22 > Chapter 6 - Commercial Fertilizers

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Brand: means a term, design, or trademark used in connection with one (1) or several grades of fertilizer. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Bulk fertilizer: means a fertilizer distributed in a nonpackaged form. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Calcium carbonate equivalent: means the acid-neutralizing capacity of an agricultural liming material expressed as a weight percentage of calcium carbonate. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Composting: means the biological decomposition of organic matter. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Coproduct: means a chemical substance produced for a commercial purpose during the manufacture, processing, use or disposal of another chemical substance or mixture. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Deficiency: means the amount of nutrient found by analysis to be less than that guaranteed, which may result from a lack of nutrient ingredients or from lack of uniformity. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Department: means the Idaho state department of agriculture or its authorized representative. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Distribute: means to import, consign, manufacture, produce, compound, mix, or blend fertilizer, or to offer for sale, sell, barter or otherwise distribute or supply fertilizer in this state. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Distributor: means any person who distributes. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fertilizer: means any substance containing one (1) or more recognized plant nutrient which is used for its plant nutrient content and which is designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth, and includes limes and gypsum. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Grade: means the percentage of total nitrogen, available phosphate, and soluble potash stated in whole numbers in the same terms, order, and percentages as in the guaranteed analysis. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Guaranteed analysis: means the minimum percentage of plant nutrients claimed, for a total nitrogen, available phosphate, or soluble potash fertilizer, consistent with the grade and in the following order and form:
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  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Label: means the display of all written, printed, or graphic matter, upon the immediate container, or a statement accompanying a fertilizer. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Labeling: means all written, printed, or graphic matter, upon or accompanying any fertilizer, or advertisements, brochures, posters, and television and radio announcements used in promoting the sale of such fertilizer. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Manufacture: means to compound, produce, granulate, mix, blend, repackage, or otherwise alter the composition of fertilizer materials. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Micronutrient: means boron (B), chlorine (Cl), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni), sodium (Na), and zinc (Zn). See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Official sample: means any sample of fertilizer taken by the director or his authorized agent and designated as "official" by the department. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Organic waste-derived material: means grass clippings, leaves, weeds, bark, plantings, prunings and other vegetative wastes, wood wastes from logging and milling operations, and food wastes. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • percentage: means the percentage by weight. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, association, firm or corporation. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Production: means to compound or fabricate a fertilizer through a physical or chemical process. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Registrant: means the person who registers fertilizer under the provisions of this act. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Specialty fertilizer: means a fertilizer distributed for nonagricultural use. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Storage container: means a container, including a railcar, nurse tank or other container that is used or intended for the storage of bulk liquid or dry fertilizer. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Storage facility: means a location at which undivided quantities of liquid bulk fertilizer in excess of five hundred (500) U. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Tonnage-only distributor: means any person who assumes the responsibility for inspection fees and reports. See Idaho Code 22-603
  • Waste-derived fertilizer: includes any commercial fertilizer derived from an industrial byproduct, coproduct or other material that would otherwise be disposed of if a market for reuse were not an option, but does not include fertilizers derived from biosolids or biosolid products regulated under the code of federal regulations, 40 C. See Idaho Code 22-603