When the inspection and analysis of an official sample indicate a commercial fertilizer has been adulterated or misbranded, the results of analysis shall be forwarded by the commissioner shall forward the results of the analysis to the distributor or manufacturer. Upon request within 30 days, the commissioner shall furnish to the registrant a portion of the sample concerned.

Sec. 41. 10 MRSA §1661-B, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. E, §4 and affected by Pt. X, §2, is amended to read:

3. Enforcement. The Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources shall enforce this section pursuant to Title 7, section 14 13.

SUMMARY

This bill is authorized pursuant to Public Law 2005, chapter 382, Part G. This bill:

1. Repeals the requirement that the Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources provide an opportunity for a hearing when the commissioner becomes cognizant of a violation of any provision in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 7 or other statutes delegating responsibility to the commissioner or the department;

2. Amends a provision relating to the farms purchased by the State for use by the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station;

3. Corrects the provision for annual reports by the county extension associations, requiring the reports to be sent to the University of Maine rather than its board of trustees;

4. Amends the legislative findings in Title 7, chapter 101, subchapter 1, Marketing and Advertising Farm Products;

5. Specifies that products sold at a farmers' market that are not grown or processed by the person selling the products must be purchased directly from another farmer who grew or processed the products;