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250.366 Definitions for KRS 250.361 to 250.451.
As used in KRS 250.361 to 250.451, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Fertilizer" means any substance containing one (1) or more recognized plant
nutrients which is used for its plant nutrient content and which is designed for
use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth, except unmanipulated
animal and vegetable manures, marl, lime, limestone, wood ashes and other
products exempted by regulation by the director.
(2) "Fertilizer material" means a fertilizer which either:
(a) Contains important quantities of no more than one (1) of the primary plant
nutrients: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K); or
(b) Has eighty-five percent (85%) or more of its plant nutrient content present
in the form of a single chemical compound; or
(c) Is derived from a plant or animal residue or by-product or natural material
deposit which has been processed in such a way that its content of plant
nutrients has not been materially changed except by purification and
concentration.
(3) "Mixed fertilizer" means a fertilizer containing any combination or mixture of
fertilizer materials.
(4) "Specialty fertilizer" means a fertilizer distributed for nonfarm use.
(5) "Bulk fertilizer" means a fertilizer distributed in a nonpackaged form.
(6) "Brand" means a term, design, or trademark used in connection with one (1) or
several grades of fertilizer but shall not include any numeral that is misleading
or confusing.
(7) "Guaranteed analysis" means, until the director prescribes the alternative form
of "guaranteed analysis" in accordance with the provisions of this subsection,
the minimum percentage of plant nutrients claimed in the following order and
form:
Total nitrogen (N)
----- percent
Available phosphate (P205)
----- percent
Soluble potash (K20)
----- percent
For unacidulated mineral phosphatic material and basic slag, bone, tankage
and other organic phosphatic materials, the total phosphate or degree of
fineness may also be guaranteed. Guarantees for plant nutrients other than
nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium may be permitted or required by
regulation by the director. The guarantees for such other nutrients shall be
expressed in the form of the element. The source, e.g. oxides, salts, chelates,
etc. of such other nutrients may be required to be stated on the application for
registration and may be included on the label. Other beneficial substances or
compounds, determinable by laboratory methods, also may be guaranteed by
permission and advice of the director. When any plant nutrients or other
substances or compounds are guaranteed, they shall be subject to inspection
and analysis in accord with the methods and regulations prescribed by the
director. When the director finds, after public hearing following due notice, that
the requirement for expressing the guaranteed analysis of phosphorus and
potassium in elemental form would not impose an economic hardship on
distributors and users of fertilizer by reason of conflicting labeling requirements
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among the states, he may require by regulation thereafter that the "guaranteed
analysis" shall be in the following form:
Total nitrogen (N)
----- percent
Available phosphorus (P)
----- percent
Soluble potassium (K)
----- percent
The effective date of the regulation shall be not less than six (6) months
following the issuance thereof, except that the equivalent of phosphorus and
potassium may also be shown in the form of available phosphate and soluble
potash for a period of two (2) years following the effective date of the
regulation. After the effective date of the regulation total nitrogen, available
phosphorus, and soluble potassium shall constitute the grade.
"Grade" means the percentage of total nitrogen, available phosphorus or
phosphate, and soluble potassium or potash stated in whole numbers in the
same terms, order, and percentages as in the guaranteed analysis; except
specialty fertilizers may be guaranteed in fractional units of less than one
percent (1%) of total nitrogen, available phosphorus or phosphate, and soluble
potassium or potash and fertilizer materials, bone meal, manures, and similar
materials may be guaranteed in fractional units.
"Official sample" means any sample of fertilizer taken by the director and
designated as "official" by the director.
"Ton" means a net weight of two thousand (2,000) pounds avoirdupois.
"Primary nutrient" means total nitrogen, available phosphate or phosphorus,
and soluble potash or potassium.
"Percent" or "percentage" means the percentage by weight.
"Person" means individual, partnership, association, firm, or corporation.
"Distribute" means to import, consign, manufacture, produce, compound, mix,
or blend fertilizer, or to offer for sale, sell, barter, or otherwise supply fertilizer in
this state.
"Distributor" means any person who distributes fertilizer in this Commonwealth.
"Registrant" means the person who registers fertilizer under the provisions of
KRS 250.361 to 250.451.
"Label" means the display of all written, printed, or graphic matter, upon the
immediate container, or a statement accompanying a fertilizer.
"Labeling" means all written, printed, or graphic matter, upon or accompanying
any fertilizer, or verbal statements, advertisements, brochures, posters,
television or radio announcements used in promoting the sale of the fertilizer.
"Investigational allowance" means an allowance for variations inherent in the
taking, preparation and analysis of an official sample of fertilizer.
"Manufacturer" means any person engaged in the business of preparing,
mixing, or manufacturing fertilizers or the person whose name appears on the
label as being responsible for the guarantee.
"Manufacturing" means preparing, mixing, or combining fertilizer materials
chemically or physically, including the mixing through the simultaneous
application of two (2) or more fertilizer materials, by a manufacturer or contract
applicator.
(22) "Lot" means an identifiable quantity of fertilizer that can be sampled according
to AOAC International procedures, such as, the amount contained in a single
vehicle, or the amount delivered under a single invoice, and, in the case of
bagged fertilizer, not more than twenty-five (25) tons.
(23) "Blending" means physically mixing or combining two (2) or more fertilizer
materials including the mixing through the simultaneous application of two (2)
or more fertilizer materials by a blender or another person.
(24) "Blender" means any person who is engaged in the business of blending
fertilizers.
(25) "Custom-mixed fertilizer" means a fertilizer blended according to specifications
that are furnished to a blender by the consumer prior to blending.
(26) "Licensee" means the person who is licensed to distribute fertilizer.
Effective:July 15, 1994
History: Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 331, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994. -Created 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 191, sec. 2, effective July 13, 1984.
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