Virginia Code 3.2-4114: Regulations
A. The Board may adopt regulations pursuant to this article as necessary to register persons to grow, handle, or process industrial hemp or implement the provisions of this article.
Terms Used In Virginia Code 3.2-4114
- Board: means the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services. See Virginia Code 3.2-100
- Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. See Virginia Code 3.2-100
- Grow: means to plant, cultivate, or harvest a plant or crop. See Virginia Code 3.2-4112
- Handle: means to temporarily possess industrial hemp grown in compliance with state or federal law that (i) has not been processed and (ii) was not grown by and will not be processed by the person temporarily possessing it. See Virginia Code 3.2-4112
- Industrial hemp: includes an industrial hemp extract that has not completed all stages of processing needed to convert the extract into a hemp product. See Virginia Code 3.2-4112
- Process: means to convert industrial hemp into a hemp product. See Virginia Code 3.2-4112
B. Upon publication by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register of any final rule regarding industrial hemp that materially expands opportunities for growing, producing, or handling industrial hemp in the Commonwealth, the Board shall immediately adopt amendments conforming Department regulations to such federal final rule. Such adoption of regulations by the Board shall be exempt from the provisions of the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.).
2015, cc. 158, 180; 2018, cc. 689, 690; 2019, cc. 653, 654; 2020, c. 620; 2023, cc. 744, 794.