Montana Code 80-5-135. Screenings — restrictions on movements
80-5-135. Screenings — restrictions on movements. All screenings, whether from seed conditioning plants or other sources, represent both a valuable and potentially hazardous product. Their movements are restricted as follows:
Terms Used In Montana Code 80-5-135
- Conditioning: means drying, cleaning, scarifying, and other operations that could change the purity or germination of a seed and require the seed lot to be retested to determine labeling. See Montana Code 80-5-120
- Kind: means one or more related species or subspecies that are known singly or collectively by one common name, such as corn, oats, alfalfa, and timothy. See Montana Code 80-5-120
(1)The viability of prohibited noxious weed seed as defined in 80-5-120 shall be destroyed before screenings are utilized in feed or in any other way in which they may propagate their kind. However, if these screenings are sold for feed, it shall be the responsibility of the feed buyer to haul under a tarp cover or other tight container until the provisions of this part are met.
(2)The department may adopt rules to restrict or exempt from restriction the holding and movement of screenings when the public interest is served by so doing.