2009 California Food and Agricultural Code - Section 6741-6744 :: Article 3. Exemptions

6741.  A person is not required to pay any license fee if all of the
following facts exist:
   (a) The person's sales of plants amount to less than one thousand
dollars ($1,000) within any one fiscal year.
   (b) The person has reported to the commissioner his or her
intention to make those sales.
   (c) All plants which are sold by the person are of his or her own
production, and are sold for planting within the county in which the
plants were grown.

6742.  Any person that sells seeds and does not sell or ship any
other kinds of nursery stock is exempt from the license requirements
of this chapter.

6743.  Any retail florist or other person that sells plants at
retail for indoor decorative purposes only is exempt as to such
plants from the license requirements of this chapter.

6744.  Any person that sells cut Christmas trees is exempt from the
license requirements of this chapter.