CODE OF VIRGINIA

AUTHORITY OF BOARD TO ADOPT REGULATIONS (§ 3.2-4001)

The Board may adopt regulations:

   1.  Governing: (i) methods of sampling; (ii) methods of inspection; (iii)
   methods of testing in the laboratory and in the field; (iv) the establishment
   of standards; (v) the establishment of code designations; and (vi) the
   establishment of tolerances for agricultural, vegetable, flower, tree and
   shrub, lawn and turf seeds, mixtures of such seeds, and screenings;

   2.  Providing a list of prohibited and restricted noxious-weed seeds;

   3.  Providing for the labeling of flower seeds by kind, variety, type, or
   performance characteristics as required by § 3.2-4008;

   4.  Providing a list of tree and shrub seeds subject to the seed purity and
   germination labeling requirements of subsection I of § 3.2-4008;

   5.  Providing for the registration of the pedigree of any hybrid;

   6.  Providing a list of those kinds of seed that may be sold only by variety
   name;

   7.  Establishing special labeling requirements, in addition to the
   requirements of § 3.2-4008, for the sale or distribution of seeds produced
   from transgenetic plant material;

   8.  Providing a list of second generation hybrids that may be sold as a
   hybrid;

   9.  Providing a list of seeds specified as lawn and turf seeds; and

   10.  Establishing tolerances that recognize variations between analyses,
   tests, label statements, and subsequent analyses to be used in enforcement.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 3-219.8, 3-219.9:1; 1958, c. 483; 1966, cc. 9, 702,
§§ 3.1-269, 3.1-271; 1994, c. 577, § 3.1-275.5; 2008, c. 860.