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AGRICULTURE
- § 1-101 - Definitions
- § 1-1A-01 - Definitions
- § 1-1A-02 - Establishment; purpose
- § 1-1A-03 - Powers of Secretary
- § 1-1A-04 - Confidentiality of records
- § 1-201 - Certificate of compliance with Workers' Compensation Act prior to issuance of license or permit
- § 1-301 - Definitions
- § 1-302 - Container deposit
- § 1-303 - Returned container
- § 1-304 - Penalty for violation of consignee's duties
- § 1-305 - Sale of consigned goods -- Failure to account
- § 1-306 - Application of general penalties
- § 2-101 - Department established
- § 2-102 - Secretary of Agriculture; deputy secretary; assistants, consultants and employees
- § 2-103 - General powers and duties of Secretary [Effective until October 1, 2013.]
- § 2-104 - Secretary to enforce article; assistance of law enforcement officers; interference with Secretary prohibited
- § 2-105 - Counsel to Department
- § 2-106 - Positions and units within Department [Effective until October 1, 2013.]
- § 2-107 - Continuation and change of rules, forms, orders, etc., of abolished units; references to abolished units; duties and powers transferred to Secretary
- § 2-108 - Duties concerning dog and cat overpopulation
- § 2-201 - Legislative intent
- § 2-202 - Maryland Agricultural Commission established in Department; duty
- § 2-203 - Composition of Commission; appointment and terms of members
- § 2-204 - Officers; meetings; executive secretary; compensation
- § 2-205 - Commission recommendations
- § 2-301 - Definitions
- § 2-302 - State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners
- § 2-303 - Establishment of Fund; fees; disposition of funds collected
- § 2-304 - Powers and duties of Board generally
- § 2-305 - License to administer drugs by animal control facility
- § 2-306 - Regulation of veterinary education
- § 2-307 - Examinations; issuance of license
- § 2-308 - Registration of licensee
- § 2-309 - Registration of veterinary technicians
- § 2-310 - Standards of conduct and ethics; grounds for refusal, suspension or revocation of license
- § 2-311 - Procedure for suspension or revocation of license
- § 2-312 - Issuance of license after revocation
- § 2-313 - Prohibited acts
- § 2-314 - Liability for civil damages of veterinarian rendering aid in emergency
- § 2-315 - Injunctive relief
- § 2-316 - Termination of subtitle provisions and regulations
- § 2-401 - Board of Review established [Effective until October 1, 2013.]
- § 2-401 to 2-405 - Board of Review of Department of Agriculture [Repealed effective October 1, 2013].
- § 2-402 - Composition; appointment of members; tenure; chairman; vacancies; compensation; staff [Effective until October 1, 2013.]
- § 2-403 - Removal of members [Effective until October 1, 2013.]
- § 2-404 - Powers and duties [Effective until October 1, 2013.]
- § 2-405 - Appeals to Board of Review; judicial review [Effective until October 1, 2013.]
- § 2-501 - Legislative intent
- § 2-502 - Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation established
- § 2-503 - Board of trustees
- § 2-504 - General powers of Foundation
- § 2-505 - Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Fund [Effective until July 1, 2013].
- § 2-506 - Annual report to Governor and General Assembly
- § 2-507 - Executive director and staff
- § 2-508 - Purchases of agricultural land preservation easements
- § 2-509 - Foundation regulations and procedures for sale of easements.
- § 2-510 - Sale of easement in agricultural land
- § 2-511 - Value of easement
- § 2-512 - Approval of local programs of agricultural land preservation
- § 2-513 - Use of land for which easement purchased [Effective until July 1, 2013].
- § 2-514 - Termination of easement
- § 2-515 - Condemnation of land under agricultural preservation easement
- § 2-516 - Approval of certification of county agricultural land preservation program applications
- § 2-517 - Critical Farms Program
- § 2-518 - Priority Preservation Areas
- § 2-519 - Imposition of civil penalties
- § 2-601 - Created in Department of Agriculture; purpose; management and supervision
- § 2-602 - Power to make loans
- § 2-603 - Interest rate; application fee; security; eligibility; reimbursement of Department
- § 2-604 - Department authority in making loans
- § 2-605 - Penalty
- § 2-701 - Definitions
- § 2-702 - Exemptions
- § 2-703 - Board created
- § 2-704 - Composition of Board; oath; terms; removal of member
- § 2-705 - Chairman and officers
- § 2-706 - Meetings; expenses; staff
- § 2-707 - Authority of Secretary; rules and regulations
- § 2-708 - Disposition of funds collected
- § 2-709 - Inspectors
- § 2-710 - License required
- § 2-711 - Application for license; license fee.
- § 2-712 - Expiration and renewal of license
- § 2-713 - Inspections; creation of classes of licenses
- § 2-714 - License to be property of State; display; transfer
- § 2-715 - Suspension or revocation of license
- § 2-716 - Impounding horses
- § 2-717 - Injunction
- § 2-718 - Penalty; hearing.
- § 2-719 - Termination of subtitle provisions and regulations
- § 2-801 - Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact [Subtitle subject to contingency and abrogation]
- § 2-802 - Maryland delegation [Subtitle subject to contingency and abrogation]
- § 2-803 - Obtaining dairy industry information [Subtitle subject to contingency and abrogation]
- § 2-804 - Regulations [Subtitle subject to contingency and abrogation]
- § 2-805 - Violations; penalties [Subtitle subject to contingency and abrogation]
- § 2-901 - Established; purpose; payments; regulations
- § 2-1001 - Established
- § 2-1002 - Young Farmers Advisory Board
- § 2-1003 - Duties of Advisory Board
- § 2-1004 - Compensation; staff
- § 2-1005 - Duties of chairperson or designee
- § 2-1101 - Definitions.
- § 2-1102 - Maryland Wine and Grape Promotion Fund.
- § 2-1103 - Maryland Wine and Grape Promotion Council
- § 2-1201 - General consideration
- § 2-1301 - Maryland Wild Pollinators Program
- § 2-1401 - Maryland Dairy Farmer Emergency Trust Fund
- § 2-1501 - Fund
- § 3-101 - General powers and responsibilities of Secretary.
- § 3-102 - Quarantine by Governor
- § 3-103 - Cooperation with federal authorities; appointment of assistants in event of epidemic
- § 3-104 - Local health authorities and veterinarians required to report contagious and infectious diseases
- § 3-105 - Powers of Secretary to prevent spread of contagious or infectious diseases
- § 3-106 - Prohibiting shipments of livestock or poultry
- § 3-107 - Appraisal of building, article or animal which is to be destroyed
- § 3-108 - Disposal of carcass, hide, and offal of slaughtered animal
- § 3-109 - Owner to bury or burn animals dying of contagious or infectious disease
- § 3-110 - Exposure of healthy animals to infected animals
- § 3-111 - Sale of infected animals; unlawful inoculation
- § 3-112 - Passing diseased animal as healthy
- § 3-113 - Refusing access or resisting quarantine; concealing disease
- § 3-114 - Prosecutions by State's Attorney
- § 3-115 - Animals posing threat to poultry, livestock, or human safety
- § 3-116 - Administrative penalties.
- § 3-117 - Animal Health Fund.
- § 3-118 - Prohibited actions concerning animal information
- § 3-119 - Violations; injunction
- § 3-201 - Definitions
- § 3-202 - Applicability of subtitle
- § 3-203 - Biological products laboratory
- § 3-204 - Tests, investigations, and research
- § 3-205 - Sale of biological products by Secretary
- § 3-206 - Experiments with consent of Secretary
- § 3-207 - Buyer or recipient of biological product to maintain records
- § 3-208 - Labeling
- § 3-209 - Treating animal to prevent reaction; information of reaction to be given purchaser; permission for sale after reaction
- § 3-210
- § 3-211 - Sale, donation, and distribution of biological products prohibited; exceptions
- § 3-212 - Sale of milk from treated animals
- § 3-213
- § 3-301 - Definitions
- § 3-302 - Disposition of license fees
- § 3-303 - Licenses
- § 3-304 - Licenses -- Refusal, suspension, or revocation
- § 3-305 - Records of animals received and disposed of
- § 3-306 - Truckers or haulers to possess health certificate or declaration; quarantine
- § 3-307 - Sanitation; treatment of 3-D livestock
- § 3-308 - Exemptions
- § 3-309 - Duty of State's Attorney
- § 3-310 - Injunction
- § 3-401 - Imported cattle to be accompanied by inspection certificate
- § 3-402 - Examination in lieu of inspection certificate
- § 3-403 - Imported swine to be accompanied by health certificate
- § 3-404 - Feeding garbage to swine
- § 3-405 - Authority of Secretary
- § 3-501 - Definitions
- § 3-502 - Attendants
- § 3-503 - Lights
- § 3-504 - Exemptions
- § 3-505 - Disposition of fines
- § 3-601 - Scope of subtitle
- § 3-602 - "Enclosure" defined
- § 3-603 - Impounding; damages
- § 3-701 - Opening enclosure of another
- § 3-801 - Definitions.
- § 3-802 - Annual license.
- § 3-803 - Power to adopt health protection program.
- § 3-804 - Registration.
- § 3-805 - Grounds for refusal, suspension, or revocation of license.
- § 3-901 - "Transport" defined
- § 3-902 - Requirements
- § 3-903 - Civil penalties
- § 4-101 - Definitions
- § 4-102 - Declaration of policy; federal matching funds
- § 4-103 - Applicability of subtitle
- § 4-104 - Cooperation with other governmental units
- § 4-105 - Wholesome Meat Advisory Council
- § 4-106 - Administration
- § 4-107 - Rules and regulations; reports
- § 4-108 - Required inspections; condemnation
- § 4-109 - Exemptions from inspection
- § 4-110 - Payment of cost of inspection
- § 4-111 - Slaughterhouse premises, facilities, and sanitary practices
- § 4-112 - Labeling, marking, and container
- § 4-113 - Entry of article into inspected establishments
- § 4-114 - Separate establishments for equine carcasses
- § 4-115 - False or misleading name, marking, or labeling; misleading container
- § 4-116 - Products prepared without supervision of inspector
- § 4-117 - Refusal or withdrawal of inspection
- § 4-118 - License required; fee
- § 4-119 - Registration
- § 4-120 - Records; access to premises; samples
- § 4-121 - Rules and regulations governing storage and handling of carcasses, meat, and meat food products
- § 4-122 - Sale, purchase, or transportation of dead, disabled, or diseased livestock
- § 4-123 - Prohibited acts
- § 4-124 - Detention of carcass or meat food product
- § 4-125 - Seizure and condemnation of carcass or meat food product
- § 4-126 - Oaths; subpoenas; privilege against self-incrimination
- § 4-127 - Responsibility for acts of agent or employee
- § 4-128 - Report of violations for criminal prosecution
- § 4-129 - Injunctions; proceedings to be in name of State
- § 4-130 - Penalty for violation of § 4-123
- § 4-131 - Short title
- § 4-201 - Definitions
- § 4-202 - Legislative declarations
- § 4-203 - Applicability of subtitle
- § 4-204 - Cooperation with United States Secretary of Agriculture; acceptance of federal assistance
- § 4-205 - Inspection of official poultry processing establishments; condemnation
- § 4-206 - Inspection and identification of poultry not intended for use as human food; transportation and sale
- § 4-207 - Payment of cost of inspection
- § 4-208 - Sanitary practices at official establishments
- § 4-209 - Labeling, marking, and container
- § 4-210 - Entry of products into official establishment
- § 4-211 - False or misleading name, marking, or labeling; misleading container
- § 4-212 - Refusal or withdrawal of inspection
- § 4-213 - Registration of certain persons
- § 4-214 - Sale, purchase, or transportation of dead, disabled, or diseased poultry
- § 4-215 - Records; access to premises; samples
- § 4-216 - Rules and regulations governing storage and handling of poultry products
- § 4-217 - Exemptions from subtitle
- § 4-218 - Prohibited acts
- § 4-219 - Detention of poultry products
- § 4-220 - Seizure and condemnation
- § 4-221 - Investigation of persons engaged in intrastate commerce; reports and answers
- § 4-222 - Access to documents; subpoenas; oaths; deposition; privilege against self-incrimination.
- § 4-223 - Responsibility of business unit for acts of agent or employee
- § 4-224 - Report of violations for criminal prosecution
- § 4-225 - Jurisdiction of courts; proceedings in name of State
- § 4-226 - Violations of § 4-206, § 4-213, § 4-214, § 4-215, § 4-216, or § 4-218; assault, resistance or interference with enforcement
- § 4-227 - Liability of carrier
- § 4-228 - Penalties for false entries in reports or records; removing, falsifying, etc., documentary evidence, and refusing to testify; making public information obtained by Secretary
- § 4-229 - Penalty for failure to file reports
- § 4-230 - Short title
- § 4-301 - Definitions
- § 4-302 - Shell eggs required to meet standards of subtitle
- § 4-303 - Use of terms for sale or advertising of eggs
- § 4-304 - Size or weight classification for shell eggs
- § 4-305 - Standards of quality for shell eggs
- § 4-306 - Secretary may establish voluntary standards for eggs exceeding required standards
- § 4-307 - Designation of quality and size; presumption for shell eggs not designated U.S.D.A. Grade B
- § 4-308 - Invoice delivery ticket
- § 4-309 - Failure to make reports; false reports
- § 4-310 - Right of entry; "stop-sale" order
- § 4-311 - Disposition of unfit or adulterated eggs
- § 4-312 - Short title
- § 5-101 - Definitions
- § 5-102 - Administration; cooperation with State, federal, and private agencies; comprehensive pesticide data program
- § 5-103 - Disposition of fees [Effective until July 1, 2013].
- § 5-104 - Rules and regulations; determinations
- § 5-105 - Registration of pesticides
- § 5-106 - Packaging and labeling requirements
- § 5-107 - Noncomplying pesticides
- § 5-108 - Stop-sale orders
- § 5-109 - Prohibited acts
- § 5-110 - Exemptions
- § 5-111 - Seizure and condemnation [Effective until July 1, 2013].
- § 5-112 - Enforcement
- § 5-113 - Termination of registration upon conviction of violation
- § 5-114 - Short title
- § 5-201 - Definitions
- § 5-202 - Gifts, contributions, etc.; receipt or issuance of grants or contracts
- § 5-203 - Pesticide Fund
- § 5-204 - Duties of Secretary
- § 5-205 - Sampling and inspection
- § 5-206 - Qualifications for licenses; issuance and revocation; financial responsibility
- § 5-207 - Requirements -- Certificates, fees, permits, etc.
- § 5-208 - Information to be supplied customer; advance notice of application; signs posted for exterior applications; information to be supplied Department prior to application of experimental pesticide
- § 5-209 - Supervision by certified persons
- § 5-210 - Labels; unlawful use of pesticide
- § 5-211 - Penalty; indemnification for financial injury from violation; actions for civil damages
- § 5-301 - Definitions
- § 5-302 - Inspections; rules governing certification and licensing; development of programs; fees; Plant Protection Fund
- § 5-303 - Annual reports of Secretary
- § 5-304 - Quarantine of infested or infected areas
- § 5-305 - Aircraft dissemination of insecticides, fungicides, and bactericides
- § 5-306 - Right of entry; treatment of plants
- § 5-307 - Marking or tagging infested or infected plants; notice to owner; destruction
- § 5-308 - Reciprocal agreements for nursery stock
- § 5-309 - Inspection of nurseries; inspection and license fees; special certificates for certain plants
- § 5-310 - Shipping nursery stock into State
- § 5-311 - Selling or shipping nursery stock without certificate
- § 5-312 - Condemnation of diseased nursery stock sold, shipped or delivered in State
- § 5-313 - Penalties for violations of subtitle
- § 5-314 - Alternative civil penalty; payments; regulations
- § 5-401 - Acquisition of property
- § 5-402 - Acceptance of gifts or loans from federal government
- § 5-403 - Execution of work by contract or open account
- § 5-404 - Receipt of funds from and contracts with political subdivisions; expenses of mosquito control on State-owned land
- § 5-405 - Control and elimination of mosquitoes
- § 5-406 - Mosquito control
- § 5-407 - Mosquito control -- Injunction
- § 5-408 - Mosquito control -- Penalty
- § 5-501 - Definitions
- § 5-502 - Inspection of apiaries; investigations; information to promote industry; records
- § 5-503 - Registration
- § 5-504 - Diseased colonies or equipment
- § 5-505 - Colonies or used equipment shipped or transported into State
- § 5-506 - Movable frames required
- § 5-507 - Identification of apiary on another person's property; abandoned apiaries
- § 5-601 - Importation of San Juan rabbits
- § 5-701 - Findings
- § 5-702 - Definitions
- § 5-703 - The Insurance Fund
- § 5-704 - The Insurance Fund, internal operations and management
- § 5-705 - Compact and Insurance Fund administration
- § 5-706 - Assistance and reimbursement
- § 5-707 - Advisory and technical committees
- § 5-708 - Relations with nonparty jurisdictions
- § 5-709 - Finance
- § 5-710 - Entry into force and withdrawal
- § 5-711 - Construction and severability
- § 5-712 - Cooperation by State departments and agencies
- § 5-713 - Bylaws filed with Secretary of Agriculture
- § 5-714 - Secretary of Agriculture designated compact administrator
- § 5-715 - Governor may request assistance
- § 5-716 - "Executive head" defined
- § 5-801 - Definitions
- § 5-802 - Powers and duties of Secretary
- § 5-803 - Investigation of complaint
- § 5-804 - Cooperation with other agencies; special nuisance bird fund
- § 5-805
- § 5-901 - Definitions
- § 5-902 - Distribution, possession, sale, application, etc., of antifouling paint containing tributyltin compound
- § 5-903 - Subtitle not infringement on interstate commerce
- § 5-904 - Regulations
- § 5-905 - Seizure and forfeiture
- § 5-906 - Penalty
- § 6-101 - Definitions
- § 6-102 - Administration
- § 6-103 - Disposition of registration fees [Effective until July 1, 2013].
- § 6-104 - Rules and regulations
- § 6-105 - Publication of information concerning commercial feed
- § 6-106 - Inspection, sampling, testing, and analyses of commercial feed
- § 6-107 - Registration
- § 6-108 - Refusal or cancellation of registration; changes in guarantee of composition of registered feed
- § 6-109 - Commercial feed to be labeled; contents of label; placement
- § 6-110 - Labeling of customer-formula or contract feed; information required on invoice
- § 6-111 - Labeling of feed containing poisonous, deleterious, or nonnutritive substance
- § 6-112 - Distribution of adulterated or misbranded feed
- § 6-113 - "Stop-sale orders"; condemnation and confiscation
- § 6-114 - Official analysis prima facie evidence of composition
- § 6-115 - Report of violations for criminal prosecution; minor violations
- § 6-116 - Injunctions
- § 6-117 - Short title
- § 6-201 - Definitions
- § 6-202 - Administration
- § 6-203 - Enforcement; rules and regulations
- § 6-204 - Fund for payment of administration expenses [Effective until July 1, 2013].
- § 6-205 - Publication of information concerning fertilizers and soil conditioners
- § 6-206 - Inspection, sampling, testing, and analyses of commercial fertilizer
- § 6-207 - Registration
- § 6-208 - Registration and inspection fees
- § 6-209 - Semiannual statement of tonnage sold; report of sales to nonregistrant
- § 6-210 - Labeling
- § 6-211 - Distribution of adulterated or misbranded fertilizer or soil conditioner
- § 6-212 - Short weight
- § 6-213 - Change in plant nutrient content
- § 6-214 - Disposition of fertilizer or soil conditioner found in violation of subtitle
- § 6-215 - Official analysis prima facie evidence of composition
- § 6-216 - Report of violations for criminal prosecution; minor violations
- § 6-217 - Injunctions
- § 6-218 - Refusal or cancellation of registration
- § 6-219 - Deficiencies or excesses in plant nutrients
- § 6-220 - Short title
- § 6-221 - Regulations regarding product standards
- § 6-222 - Low phosphorous fertilizer
- § 6-223 - Regulation of fertilizer and its application
- § 6-224 - Restrictions on use and sale of fertilizer (Section effective October 1, 2013.)
- § 6-301 - Definitions
- § 6-302 - Rules and regulations
- § 6-303 - Fund for payment of administration expenses [Effective until July 1, 2013].
- § 6-304 - Samples; right of entry
- § 6-305 - Annual filing statement; registration and inspection fees
- § 6-306 - Semiannual distribution statements; cancellation of registration
- § 6-307 - Information statement
- § 6-308 - Labeling or tagging; delivery of statement with invoice
- § 6-309 - Revocation of registration for false information in statement
- § 6-310 - Payment of fines into fund [Effective until July 1, 2013].
- § 6-311 - Stop-sale orders
- § 6-401 - Penalty in lieu of refusing or cancelling registration [Effective July 1, 2013].
- § 6-501 - State Chemist Fund [Effective July 1, 2013].
- § 7-101 - Definitions
- § 7-201 to 7-211 - The Tobacco Authority
- § 7-301 to 7-326 - State Tobacco Warehouse.
- § 7-401 to 7-408 - Bond of tobacco sellers for growers; insurance for private warehouses; sellers to maintain records and submit reports; seller to submit statement of sale; Authority to collect and review certificates; liability for conversion; purchases of tobacco weighing less than 300 pounds; marking and labeling tobacco delivered for sale; record of sales of tobacco grown outside State; weights and measures
- § 7-409 - Size of hogsheads
- § 7-410 to 7-412 - Time of receipt of tobacco at loose leaf warehouse; acceptance or rejection of bid or tobacco; purchases by commission sales agency for own account; fees
- § 7-413 - Payment of hogshead
- § 7-414 to 7-419 - Maximum sales per hour; "nested tobacco" defined; misrepresentation of weight; enforcement; sale of tobacco grown outside State as Maryland-grown tobacco; declaration of illegality by Authority
- § 8-101 - Definitions
- § 8-102 - Legislative determinations and declaration of policy
- § 8-201 - Composition of Committee; appointment of soil conservation district supervisor; tenure of members; filling vacancies
- § 8-202 - Chairman and vice-chairman; quorum; compensation and expenses; audit
- § 8-203 - Administrative officer and employees; legal services; district employees
- § 8-204 - Acceptance, management, and disposal of federal grants
- § 8-205 - Powers and duties of the Committee
- § 8-301 - Soil conservation districts continued; boundaries
- § 8-302 - District supervisors constituted governing body; number, qualifications, appointment and removal; tenure; vacancies
- § 8-303 - Meetings of supervisors; bonds; audit; representatives of localities; services of Attorney General
- § 8-304 - Committee to be furnished information by supervisors
- § 8-305 - State agencies to cooperate with supervisors; right of entry on public land
- § 8-306 - Powers of supervisors
- § 8-307 - Land-use rules and regulations -- Generally
- § 8-308 - Land-use rules and regulations -- Procedure for adopting; effect; amendment or repeal
- § 8-309 - Land-use rules and regulations -- Enforcement
- § 8-310 - Land-use rules and regulations -- Enforcement -- Judicial proceedings
- § 8-311 - Costs of review of grading and sediment control plans -- Fee system
- § 8-312 - Supplementation of employee's income
- § 8-401 - Procedure to divide or combine districts
- § 8-402 - Appointment of supervisors to governing body; disposal of district property
- § 8-403 - Application and statement of supervisors and Committee
- § 8-404 - Certificate of constitution of district; powers of new districts and supervisors
- § 8-405 - Adequate personnel and resources for soil conservation districts
- § 8-406 - Procedure for termination of district
- § 8-501 - Short title
- § 8-601 - Powers and duties of Secretary
- § 8-602 - Cost sharing in maintenance of drainage outlet systems
- § 8-603 - Regulation of agricultural drainage projects financed or managed by public drainage associations
- § 8-701 - Definitions
- § 8-702 - Establishment of program; implementation with other programs
- § 8-703 - Rules and regulations; selection of project; financial and technical assistance
- § 8-704 - State cost sharing
- § 8-705 - Failure to establish and maintain best management practice
- § 8-7A-01 - Definitions
- § 8-7A-02 - Animal Waste Technology Fund
- § 8-7A-03 - Financial assistance
- § 8-7A-04 - Animal Waste Technology Fund Advisory Committee
- § 8-7A-05 - Protection of interests of Department
- § 8-801 - Definitions [Subject to amendment effective October 1, 2013; amended version follows this section]
- § 8-802 - Certification and license requirement
- § 8-803 - Certifications and licenses -- Application; issuance; term; renewal.
- § 8-804 - Regulations; advisory committee
- § 8-805 - Denial, suspension, or revocation of certificates or licenses
- § 8-806 - Fees
- § 8-807 - Report on coverage, implementation and evaluation of plans
- § 8-901 - Legislative findings.
- § 8-902 - Voluntary certification and registration of nutrient or sediment credits on agricultural land.
- § 8-903 - Suspension or revocation of certification.
- § 8-904 - Other nutrient or sediment offset credits not affected.
- § 9-101 - Definitions
- § 9-102 - Duties of Secretary
- § 9-103 - Powers of Secretary
- § 9-104 - Labeling
- § 9-105 - Records
- § 9-106 - Reliance on invoice, grower's declaration, or other labeling information
- § 9-107 - Prohibited acts
- § 9-108 - Exemptions
- § 9-109 - Prosecution of violations
- § 9-110 - Short title
- § 9-201 - Definitions
- § 9-202 - Duties of Secretary
- § 9-203 - Right of entry; issuance and enforcement of "stop-sale" order
- § 9-204 - Wholesale seedsman's permit
- § 9-205 - Records
- § 9-206 - Labeling requirements -- Treated seeds
- § 9-207 - Labeling requirements -- Agricultural seeds
- § 9-208 - Labeling requirements -- Vegetable and herb seeds
- § 9-209 - Labeling requirements -- Flower, tree and shrub seeds
- § 9-210 - Prohibited acts
- § 9-211 - Exemptions
- § 9-212 - Seizure for noncompliance
- § 9-213 - Prosecutions
- § 9-214 - Civil penalties
- § 9-301 - Definitions
- § 9-302 - Rules and regulations
- § 9-303 - Disposition of fees and moneys collected
- § 9-304 - Inspection of potatoes; "stop-sale" order
- § 9-305 - Sale or shipment of potatoes not conforming to standards
- § 9-306 - Exemptions
- § 9-307 - Prosecutions
- § 9-401 - Noxious plants
- § 9-402 - Powers of Secretary
- § 9-403 - Agreement between Secretary and county for control or eradication
- § 9-404 - Importing, transporting, or permitting infestation
- § 9-405 - Report of violations; prosecution; agreement between Secretary and landowner for eradication and control
- § 9-501 to 9-504 - Thistle control.
- § 9-601 - "Ginseng" defined
- § 9-602 - Collection permit; registration of dealer
- § 9-603 - Authority of Secretary
- § 9-604 - Records
- § 9-605 - Fees -- Amount
- § 9-606 - Fees -- Disposition
- § 9-701 - Legislative finding
- § 9-702 - Prevention of spread
- § 9-703 - Investigation
- § 9-704 - Notice to landowner
- § 9-705 - Acceptance and use of aid, gift, or grant
- § 9-801 to 9-806 - Pilot Program to Study the Growth and Marketing of Industrial Hemp
- § 9.5-101 - Definitions
- § 9.5-201 - Invasive Plants Advisory Committee established
- § 9.5-202 - Membership
- § 9.5-203 - Officers
- § 9.5-204 - Meetings; compensation; staff.
- § 9.5-205 - Duties
- § 9.5-301 - Duties of Secretary
- § 9.5-302 - Prohibited Acts
- § 9.5-303 - Tier 1 plants -- Actions and duties on discovery
- § 9.5-304 - Tier 2 plants -- Finding of failure to meet signage requirements
- § 9.5-305 - Injunctions
- § 9.5-306 - Penalties
- § 10-101 - Definitions
- § 10-102 - Legislative declarations; effect of passage of federal Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946
- § 10-103 - Activities not deemed illegal or in restraint of trade
- § 10-104 - Application for certification and approval as agency to conduct referendum; issuance of certification
- § 10-105 - Management of referendum and payment of expenses; determination and announcement before referendum
- § 10-106 - Referendum on area or statewide basis; participation; question
- § 10-107 - Distribution of ballots; poll holders; canvass of result of referendum
- § 10-108 - Effect of affirmative referendum vote [Effective until October 1, 2013].
- § 10-109 - Subsequent referenda
- § 10-110 - Use of assessment
- § 10-111 - Deduction of assessments by purchasers of agricultural commodities [Effective until October 1, 2013].
- § 10-112 - Collection of assessments from producers of tree fruits
- § 10-113 - Deduction of assessments by purchasers of livestock for slaughter
- § 10-114 - Refund of assessment; persons qualified to vote in a referendum on potatoes and peaches
- § 10-115 - Publication of statement of amounts received from assessments; treasurer's bond
- § 10-116 - Deductions to defray expenses of making assessments
- § 10-201 - Discrimination against producers of agricultural products due to membership in marketing association prohibited
- § 10-202 - Attorney General to receive complaints
- § 10-203 - Hearing; action to enjoin violations; summons; consolidation of actions
- § 10-204 - Applicability of subtitle
- § 10-301 - Composition of Board; appointment; compensation and expenses; tenure
- § 10-302 - Chairman; quorum; records; clerks and assistants; office
- § 10-303 - Fairs and exhibits
- § 10-401 to 10-410 - Maryland State Apple Commission.
- § 10-501 - Definitions
- § 10-502 - Powers of Secretary
- § 10-503 - Right of entry and examination
- § 10-504 - Prosecution
- § 10-601 - Definitions
- § 10-602 - Powers generally
- § 10-603 - Cooperation with United States government
- § 10-604 - Commodity Quality Grading Fund
- § 10-605 - Appeal of assigned grade classification
- § 10-606 - Official certificates as evidence
- § 10-607 - Confidentiality of information.
- § 10-608 - Revocation or suspension of certificate.
- § 10-701 - Definitions
- § 10-702 - Rules and regulations
- § 10-703 - Establishment of standards and grades; effective date; marking containers
- § 10-704 - Effect of standards and grades on right to sell; marking noncomplying containers prohibited
- § 10-705 - Right of entry and examination
- § 10-706 - Exemption from liability for selling in improperly marked container
- § 10-707 - No prosecution when inspection by Department or by United States Department of Agriculture
- § 10-708 - Prosecution
- § 10-801 - Definitions
- § 10-802 - Right of entry; "stop-sale" order
- § 10-803 - Standards of grades
- § 10-804 - Labeling and markings
- § 10-805 - Prohibited acts
- § 10-806 - Enforcement of subtitle by injunction
- § 10-807 - Short title
- § 10-901 - Definitions
- § 10-902 - Rules and regulations
- § 10-903 - Right of entry and inspection
- § 10-904 - Standard grades for cantaloupes in closed containers; labeling
- § 10-905 - Sale of uninspected cantaloupes; certificates as evidence
- § 10-906 - Sale of immature cantaloupes in closed containers
- § 10-907 - Nonliability of persons not party to and without knowledge of wrong
- § 10-908 - Prosecution
- § 10-909 - Subtitle not applicable to Anne Arundel County
- § 10-1001, 10-1002 - Seafood Marketing and Aquaculture Development Program and Division of Market Development
- § 10-10A-01 - Seafood Program Management Team.
- § 10-10B-01 - In General
- § 10-1101 - Seafood Marketing Advisory Commission
- § 10-1201 - Definitions
- § 10-1202 - Creation of Advisory Commission.
- § 10-1203 - Composition; oath; term; removal
- § 10-1204 - Officers
- § 10-1205 - Meetings; reimbursement of expenses; support staff
- § 10-1206 - Duties of Commission; annual report.
- § 10-1207 - Powers and duties of Secretary
- § 10-1301, 10-1302 - Aquaculture defined; legislative intent; duties of State departments, etc.; Aquaculture Review Board.
- § 10-1303 - Aquaculture Coordinating Council
- § 10-1401 - Certification program
- § 10-1402 - Regulations
- § 10-1403 - Powers and duties of Department
- § 10-1404 - Prohibited acts
- § 10-1405 - Promotion
- § 10-1406 - Fees
- § 10-1407 - Confidentiality of information
- § 10-14A-01 to 10-14A-05 - Maryland Organic Transition Investment Pilot Program
- § 10-1501 - Definitions.
- § 10-1502 - Credits authorized.
- § 10-1503 - Renewable Fuels Incentive Board.
- § 10-1504 - Application for credit.
- § 10-1505 - Payment of credits.
- § 10-1506 - Claims filed after February 1, 2008.
- § 10-1507 - Funding.
- § 10-1601 - Jane Lawton Farm-to-School Program
- § 10-1701 - Standards
- § 10-1702 - Prohibitions
- § 10-1801 - Definitions
- § 10-1802 - Transportation of waste kitchen grease
- § 10-1803 - Annual registration for transportation
- § 10-1804 - Registration certificate
- § 10-1805 - Records of waste kitchen grease
- § 10-1806 - Suspension or revocation of registration
- § 10-1807 - Waste Kitchen Grease Fund
- § 10-1808 - Penalties
- § 10-1809 - Enforcement of provisions
- § 10-1901 - Definitions
- § 10-1902 - Standard of identity for honey established
- § 10-1903 - Applicability
- § 10-1904 - Requirements
- § 10-1905 - Designations
- § 10-1906 - Enforcement
- § 10-1907 - Department not required to enforce
- § 11-101 - Definitions
- § 11-201 - Administration
- § 11-202 - General powers and duties of Secretary
- § 11-203 - Regulations; specifications, tolerances, and technical requirements for commercial weighing and measuring devices; correct weight and measure
- § 11-204 - Inspections and testing generally
- § 11-205 - Testing standards used by servicemen or service agencies
- § 11-206 - Investigations; recognized sampling procedures; prima facie evidence
- § 11-207 - Approval and sealing of correct weights and measures; disposition of incorrect weights and measures
- § 11-208 - Prohibited acts
- § 11-209 - Off-sale, stop-use, stop-removal, and removal orders
- § 11-210 - Police powers, right of entry, seizure and arrest
- § 11-211 - Injunctions
- § 11-212, 11-213
- § 11-214 to 11-216
- § 11-301 - Recognized systems of weights and measures; definitions of units of weight and measure; fractional parts of units; construction of contracts for sale of commodities
- § 11-302 - State primary standards
- § 11-303 - State secondary standards and equipment
- § 11-304 - Method of sale of commodities
- § 11-305 - Declarations on packages; packages on which declaration of unit price required
- § 11-306 - Misleading packages; advertising price of packaged commodity; prohibited qualifying terms
- § 11-307 - Sale or transportation of commodities in bulk
- § 11-308 - Sale by net weight
- § 11-309 - Misrepresentation of price; display of fractions of a cent
- § 11-310 - Meat, poultry, and seafood
- § 11-311 - Butter, oleomargarine, and margarine
- § 11-312 - Fluid dairy products; cottage cheese, cottage cheese products, sour cream, and yogurt; ice cream, ice milk, etc.
- § 11-313 - Flour, cornmeal, and hominy grits
- § 11-314 - Berries and small fruits
- § 11-315 - Liquid fuels
- § 11-316
- § 11-401 - Definitions
- § 11-402 - Rules and regulations
- § 11-403 - Disposition of fees
- § 11-404 - Responsibility for records of weights, measures, samples and tests
- § 11-405 - License
- § 11-406 - Revocation or suspension of licenses
- § 11-407 - Notice to be given by purchaser to producer; records of purchaser; statements provided by hauler
- § 11-408 - Equipment
- § 11-409 - Samples
- § 11-410 - Manner of testing
- § 11-411 - Indicating, recording or reporting false quantity
- § 11-412 - Right of entry to inspect and audit; presenting license for inspection; information obtained to be confidential
- § 11-413 - Injunction
- § 11-414 - Penalty for violating § 11-409, § 11-410, or § 11-411 of this subtitle
- § 11-501 to 11-509 - Solid fuel.
- § 12-101 - Penalty for first offense
- § 12-102 - Penalty for second or subsequent offense
- § 12-103 - Violation of rule or regulation
- § 12-104 - Exception to title
- § 13-101 to 13-108 - Grain Indemnity Fund.
- § 13-201 - Definitions
- § 13-202 - Administration Fund
- § 13-203 - Grain dealer's licenses; fee; expiration
- § 13-204 - Records of grain dealers
- § 13-205 - Disposition of funds
- § 13-206 - Directory of Grain Dealers
- § 13-207 - Annual report by Department
- § 13-208 - Grounds for refusal, suspension, or revocation of license
- § 13-209 - Notice prior to suspension or revocation; review
- § 13-210 - Posting license
- § 13-211 - Insurance
- § 13-212 - Financial statement and bond
- § 13-213 - Rules
- § 13-214 - Penalty for violation
- § 13-215 - Injunctions
- § 13-216 - Civil penalty
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