80-5-112. Enforcement -- rules. The department shall administer and enforce 80-5-102 through 80-5-105 and 80-5-107 through 80-5-113. For that purpose, the department may adopt rules. The department may issue and enforce a written or printed "stop sale" order to the owner or custodian of any lot of seed which the department finds in violation of 80-5-102 through 80-5-105 and 80-5-107 through 80-5-113. The order shall prohibit further sale of the seed until the department has evidence that the law has been complied with. The seed may not be confiscated or destroyed. Upon proper correction, by reconditioning, labeling, or otherwise, and when, in the judgment of the department, the requirements of 80-5-102 through 80-5-105 and 80-5-107 through 80-5-113 have been met, the stop sale order shall be lifted and the seed may be sold. The department shall adopt all necessary rules relating to the agricultural experiment station's duties under 80-5-102 through 80-5-105 and 80-5-107 through 80-5-113.

     History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 12, L. 1913; re-en. Sec. 3597, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3597, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 88, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 155, L. 1951; amd. Sec. 42, Ch. 218, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 13, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 3-805(2); amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 464, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 373, L. 1987.