Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 266

Seeds, Fertilizers and Feeds

←266.021

Section 266.031.1

266.040→

August 28, 2015

Permits required, fees, terms--penalty for late application.

266.031. 1. Any person who sells, distributes, offers or exposes for

sale any agricultural or vegetable seed in the state of Missouri shall obtain

a seed permit from the director of agriculture unless exempted as in section

266.080. Seed dealers must purchase permits for each seed sales classification

performed, selling or taking orders for seed from other than an established

place of business, selling seed from a retail place of business, selling seed

from a wholesale place of business, or negotiating sales as a broker. A

separate permit shall be required for each place of business from which seed

regulated by this law is sold. A separate permit shall also be required of

each person selling or taking orders for seed from other than an established

place of business. Seed permit fees will be assessed as follows:



(1) Place of business selling vegetable seed



packets of one pound or less or lawn



seed packages to the end user $5.00



(2) Person that sells only labeled seed



grown on their own property $5.00



(3) Retail place of business or person not



otherwise identified that sells or offers



for sale agricultural seed or offers for



sale agricultural seed or bulk vegetable



seed to the end user and which does not



provide storage facilities $5.00



(4) Retail place of business or person not



otherwise identified that sells or offers



for sale agricultural seed or offers for



sale agricultural seed or bulk vegetable



seed to the end user and which provides



storage facilities. A permit to sell



agricultural or bulk vegetable seed will



suffice for selling seed as listed in (1) and (2) $15.00



(5) Wholesale place of business selling



labeled seed for resale, or negotiating



sales as a seed broker $100.00



2. Farmers and seed producers shall be classed as seedsmen and must

comply with all the provisions of sections 266.011 to 266.111 when the farmers

or seed producers:



(1) Offer, sell or expose for sale seed not of their own production;



(2) Sell and deliver seed to a purchaser by way of common carrier;



(3) Sell seed by any public sales service;



(4) Advertise or label seed referring to the purity or germination.



3. No permit is transferable. All persons holding a Missouri seed

permit shall post the permit in a conspicuous place in the place of business

to which it applies. The licensing year shall be twelve months, or any

fraction thereof, beginning on January first and ending December thirty-first.

All permit fees shall be paid to the Missouri department of agriculture and

shall be deposited in the state treasury.



4. If the application for renewal of any seed permit is not filed prior

to expiration date in any year, a penalty of fifty percent shall be assessed

and added to the original fee and shall be paid by the applicant before that

renewal license shall be issued; provided, that such penalty shall not apply

if the applicant furnishes an affidavit certifying that he has not engaged in

selling, distributing, offering or exposing seed for sale, subsequent to the

expiration date of his license.



(L. 1951 p. 5 § 266.030, A.L. 1957 p. 13, A.L. 1979 H.B. 57)







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