Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 2-2807

  • 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.
  • Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803
  • Soil amendment: means and includes any substance which is intended to improve the physical, chemical or other characteristics of the soil or improve agricultural crop production, except that it shall not include the following: Commercial fertilizers, agricultural liming materials including ground and slaked lime, unmanipulated animal manures, vegetable compost and pesticides. See Kansas Statutes 2-2803

The secretary may issue and enforce a written or printed “stop sale, use or removal” order to the owner or custodian of any lot of soil amendment, and to hold at a designated place when the secretary finds said soil amendment is being offered or exposed for sale which is not registered, is not labeled, is misbranded or is adulterated, until such time as the product or labeling complies with this act. The soil amendment may then be released in writing by the secretary.