(1) License fees for the Plant Protection and Plant Pest Act due on January 1, 2014, shall be the amount in column A of subsection (3) of this section.

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 2-1091.02

  • Director: shall mean the Director of Agriculture or his or her designated employee, representative, or authorized agent. See Nebraska Statutes 2-1078.01
  • Month: shall mean calendar month. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • Nursery: shall mean any property where nursery stock is grown, propagated, collected, or distributed and shall include, but not be limited to, private property or any property owned, leased, or managed by any agency of the United States, the State of Nebraska or its political subdivisions, or any other state or its political subdivisions where nursery stock is fumigated, treated, packed, or stored by any person. See Nebraska Statutes 2-1082
  • Plant: shall mean any plant, plant product, plant part, or reproductive or propagative part of a plant, plant product, or plant part including, but not limited to, trees, shrubs, vines, forage and cereal plants, fruit, seeds, grain, wood, or lumber. See Nebraska Statutes 2-1085
  • Plant pest: shall mean any insect, arthropod, nematode, mollusk, fungus, bacteria, virus, mycoplasma, parasitic plant, physiological disorder, or other infectious agent which can directly or indirectly injure or cause damage or a pathological condition to plants. See Nebraska Statutes 2-1086
  • Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801

(2) The license fees due January 1, 2015, and each January 1 thereafter shall be set by the director on or before July 1 of each year. The director may raise or lower such fees each year to meet the criteria in this subsection, but the fee shall not be greater than the amount in column B of subsection (3) of this section. The same percentage shall be applied to each category for all fee increases or decreases. The director shall use the fees in column A of subsection (3) of this section as a base for future fee increases or decreases. The director shall determine the fees based on estimated annual revenue and fiscal year-end cash fund balances as follows:

(a) The estimated annual revenue shall not be greater than one hundred seven percent of program cash fund appropriations allocated for the Plant Protection and Plant Pest Act; and

(b) The estimated fiscal year-end cash fund balance shall not be greater than seventeen percent of program cash fund appropriations allocated for the act.

(3) License Fees.

License Fees A B
Nursery stock
distributor license
as set forth in
section 2-1091.01
for the first acre $115 $140
Fee for additional acres $5.00 per acre $6.00 per acre
Distributing without 25% of the fee
obtaining a nursery per month up to
stock distributor 100% of the
license fee license fee
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