2012 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 38 AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
Chapter 19. Commercial Fertilizer
§38-19-17 Fertilizer deemed misbranded.


SD Codified L § 38-19-17 (through 2012) What's This?


38-19-17. Fertilizer deemed misbranded. For the purposes of this chapter, a commercial fertilizer is deemed to be misbranded:

(1) If the label or labeling carries any false or misleading statement either as to the materials contained in the fertilizer or concerning its agricultural value;

(2) If it be so labeled or branded as to deceive or mislead the purchaser; or

(3) If it is not labeled to give all the information required by §§ 38-19-15 and 38-19-16 and such additional information as may be required by rule promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 1-26 and issued by the secretary of agriculture as provided in § 38-19-36.

Source: SL 1949, ch 85, § 6; SDC Supp 1960, § 22.1706(2); SL 1986, ch 326, § 28.

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