- (A) It is the duty of the commission who may act through its authorized agent to sample, inspect, make analyses of and test agricultural liming materials and landplaster distributed within the State as it may consider necessary to determine whether the agricultural liming materials and landplaster are in compliance with the provisions of this chapter. Any officer or agent of the commission or of a committee authorized by the commission may enter upon any public or private premises or carriers during regular business hours in order to have access to agricultural liming material and landplaster subject to the provisions of this chapter and regulations pertaining to it, and to the records relating to their distribution.
- (B) The methods of analysis and sampling shall be those approved by the commission and shall be guided by the Association of Official Analytical Chemists procedures.
- (C) The results of official analysis of agricultural liming materials and landplaster and portions of official samples must be distributed by the commission as provided in the regulations at least annually.
HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 495 Section 8; 1992 Act No. 378, Section 4, eff May 15, 1992; 2011 Act No. 64, Section 1, eff June 14, 2011.
Code Commissioner's Note
1992 Act No. 378, Section 4, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "board" to "commission" in Chapter 26, Title 46 of the 1976 Code.
Effect of Amendment
The 1992 amendment substituted "commission" for "board" each time it appeared.
The 2011 amendment redesignated subsections (a), (b) and (c) as subsections (A), (B) and (C), in subsection (A) inserted "and landplaster" in the first and second sentences, and substituted "consider necessary" for "deem necessary" in the first sentence; in subsection (C), inserted "and landplaster"; and made nonsubstantive changes.