2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 35 - Agricultural
Agricultural Products - Standards and Regulations
Article 27 - Colorado Seed Act
§ 35-27-114. Powers and duties of commissioner

(1) In addition to any other duties in this article, the commissioner shall:

(a) Administer and enforce the provisions of this article;

(b) Adopt rules and regulations necessary for the administration and enforcement of this article including but not limited to rules and regulations which:

(I) Set forth the methods to inspect, sample, analyze, and test seed, including defining the tolerances to be followed during such processes pursuant to section 35-27-106;

(II) Amend the lists of prohibited and restricted noxious weed seed;

(III) Establish procedures and standards including defining allowable tolerances to be used for the inspection and approval of seed beans that are within allowable tolerances pursuant to section 35-27-109;

(IV) Establish standards for the sale of any seed including but not limited to standards for the acceptable content of pathogens, biotic contaminant, insects, plant pests, and endophytes in such seeds;

(V) Establish procedures and standards to embargo seed pursuant to section 35-27-119;

(VI) Establish procedures for the reinstatement of any registration authorized pursuant to this article;

(VII) Enforce any disciplinary actions authorized pursuant to this article including but not limited to letters of admonition or the denial, suspension, or revocation of any registration;

(VIII) Establish the amounts of the registration fees pursuant to section 35-27-111;

(c) Promptly notify any person who transported, sold, bartered, or distributed the seed or offered or exposed the seed for sale which does not test in compliance with the provisions of this article;

(d) Inspect, sample, analyze, and test seed pursuant to this article.

(2) In addition to any other powers conferred in this article, the commissioner may:

(a) Inspect, sample, analyze, and test seed pursuant to paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of this section at such time and place and to such extent as the commissioner deems necessary to determine compliance with this article;

(b) Appoint such qualified employees of the department as necessary to carry out the provisions of this article;

(c) Cooperate with the United States department of agriculture to enforce federal seed law;

(d) (I) Conduct any hearings required by this article pursuant to article 4 of title 24, C.R.S.; or

(II) Repealed.

(III) Subject to appropriations made to the department, employ administrative law judges on a full- or part-time basis to conduct such hearings;

(e) Conduct investigations pursuant to section 35-27-115.

(f) Repealed.