2011 South Dakota Code
Title 38 AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
Chapter 12A. Seed Standards And Labeling
§38-12A-3 Label required for containers of lawn and turf seed--Contents.


SD Codified L § 38-12A-3 (through 2011) What's This?

38-12A-3. Label required for containers of lawn and turf seed--Contents. Each container of lawn and turf seed which is sold, offered for sale, or exposed for sale, held for storage, or transported within this state with the intent to sell for sowing purposes shall bear or have attached in a conspicuous place a plainly written or printed label giving the following information:

(1) The name of the kind or kind and variety for each lawn and turf seed component in excess of five percent of the whole and the percentage by weight of each in order of its predominance. Mixtures shall be listed on the label using the term "mixture," "mixed," or "mix";

(2) Lot number or other lot identification;

(3) Percentage by weight of all weed seed;

(4) Name and rate of occurrence of each kind of restricted noxious weed seed, listed under the heading "noxious weed seeds";

(5) Percentage by weight of crop seeds other than those required to be named on label, if present, listed under the heading "other crop";

(6) Percentage by weight of inert matter;

(7) For each named lawn and turf seed:

(a) Percentage of germination, exclusive of hard and dormant seed;

(b) Percentage of hard and dormant seed, if present;

(c) The calendar month and year the test was completed to determine such percentages, or an expiration date, or the year for which the seed was packed for sale listed as "packed for __________";

(8) Name and address of the seedsman or seed producer who labeled the seed.

Source: SL 1988, ch 314, § 3.

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