2012 Florida Statutes
TITLE XXXV — AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Chapter 578 — SEED
578.12 — Stop-sale, stop-use, removal, or hold orders.


FL Stat § 578.12 (2012 through 2nd Reg Sess) What's This?

578.12 Stop-sale, stop-use, removal, or hold orders.—When agricultural, vegetable, flower, or forest tree seed is being offered or exposed for sale or held in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, the department, through its authorized representative, may issue and enforce a stop-sale, stop-use, removal, or hold order to the owner or custodian of said seed ordering it to be held at a designated place until the law has been complied with and said seed is released in writing by the department or its authorized representative. If seed is not brought into compliance with this law it shall be destroyed within 30 days or disposed of by the department in such a manner as it shall by regulation prescribe.

History.—s. 8, ch. 19364, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 4151(597); s. 7, ch. 20251, 1941; s. 7, ch. 21942, 1943; s. 7, ch. 22694, 1945; ss. 14, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 9, ch. 69-144; s. 1, ch. 77-174.

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