2015 Wyoming Code
TITLE 11 - AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND OTHER ANIMALS
CHAPTER 14 - FERTILIZER
SECTION 11-14-103. - Definitions.

11-14-103. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act:

(i) "Brand" means a term, design or trademark used in connection with one (1) or several grades of commercial fertilizer;

(ii) "Bulk fertilizer" means a commercial fertilizer distributed in a nonpackaged form;

(iii) "Commercial fertilizer" means any substance containing one (1) or more recognized plant nutrients used for its nutrient content and designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth;

(iv) "Deficient" means the amount of nutrient found by analysis less than that guaranteed which may result from a lack of nutrient ingredients or from lack of uniformity;

(v) "Department" means the Wyoming department of agriculture;

(vi) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture;

(vii) "Distributor" means any person who imports, consigns, distributes, manufactures, produces, compounds, formulates, mixes, blends or applies commercial fertilizer, soil conditioner or soil amendment or who offers for sale, sells, barters or otherwise supplies commercial fertilizers, soil amendments or soil conditioners in this state. The distributor may also be the registrant;

(viii) "Grade" means the percentage of total nitrogen, available phosphorus or phosphate, and soluble potassium or soluble potash stated in whole numbers in the same terms, order and percentages as in the guaranteed analysis, and fertilizer materials, bone meal, manures and similar raw materials which may be guaranteed in fractional units;

(ix) "Guaranteed analysis" means the minimum percentage of plant nutrients claimed in the following order and form:

(A) Total nitrogen (N) ..................percent

Available phosphate (P2O5) .............percent

Soluble potash (K2O) ..................percent;

(B) For unacidulated mineral phosphatic materials and basic slag, both total and available phosphate and the degree of fineness, and for bone, tankage and other organic phosphatic materials, total phosphate;

(C) Additional plant nutrients when mentioned or claimed on the label, container or advertising material, shall be registered and guaranteed, and guarantees shall be made on the percentage elemental basis with sources of the elements shown. When any plant nutrients or other substances or compounds are guaranteed, they shall be subject to inspection and analysis in accord with the methods and regulations prescribed by the department;

(D) Potential basicity or acidity expressed in terms of calcium carbonate equivalent in multiples of one hundred (100) pounds per ton.

(x) "Investigational allowance" means an allowance for variations inherent in the taking, preparation and analysis of an official sample of fertilizer, soil conditioner or soil amendment;

(xi) "Label" means the display of all written, printed or graphic matter upon the container or statement accompanying a commercial fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner;

(xii) "Labeling" means all written, printed or graphic matter upon or accompanying any commercial fertilizer, or advertisements, brochures, posters and television or radio announcements used in promoting the sale of commercial fertilizers, soil amendments or soil conditioners;

(xiii) "Mixed fertilizer" means a commercial fertilizer containing any combination or mixture of fertilizer materials;

(xiv) "Official sample" means any sample of fertilizer, soil conditioner or soil amendment taken by the director;

(xv) "Percent" or "percentage" means the percentage by weight;

(xvi) "Person" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, or organized group of persons whether incorporated or not;

(xvii) "Primary nutrient" means the plant nutrients nitrogen (N), available phosphate (P2O5) or soluble potash (K2O);

(xviii) "Registrant" means the person who registers commercial fertilizers, soil amendments or soil conditioners under the provisions of this act. The registrant may also be the distributor;

(xix) "Sell" or "sale" means exchange of ownership or transfer of custody;

(xx) "Soil amendment" or "soil conditioner" means any material which improves the physical or chemical soil characteristics and is manufactured and sold for such purposes but which is not added for its plant food content;

(xxi) "Specialty fertilizer" means a commercial fertilizer distributed primarily for nonfarm use such as home gardens, lawns, shrubbery, flowers, golf courses, municipal parks, cemeteries, greenhouses and nurseries;

(xxii) "Ton" means a net weight of two thousand (2,000) pounds avoirdupois;

(xxiii) "Organic fertilizer" means a material containing carbon and one (1) or more elements other than hydrogen and oxygen essential for plant growth, and allowed for use under the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, as promulgated by the United States department of agriculture "National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances" rule;

(xxiv) "Secondary or micro plant nutrients" means nutrients other than the primary nutrients that are essential for the normal growth of plants and that may need to be added to the growth medium. Secondary plant nutrients shall include calcium, magnesium and sulfur. Micro plant nutrients shall include boron, chlorine, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, sodium and zinc;

(xxv) "This act" means W.S. 11-14-101 through 11-14-118.