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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 2-16-101. Destruction of trees — Compensation - (a) The owner of any valuable pear trees, cedar trees,...
§ 2-16-102. Date stamped on cotton insecticides — Penalty - (a) Every person, firm, or corporation bagging any commercial cotton...
§ 2-16-103. Alligator weed agreements - The State Plant Board is authorized to enter into agreements...
§ 2-16-104. Disposition of funds - (a) All fees, interest, penalties, and costs collected by the...
§ 2-16-105. Fire Ant Poison Cost Sharing Program - (a) (1) There is hereby established a program to be...
§ 2-16-106. Recovery of quarantine costs - The State Plant Board is empowered to recover any identifiable...
§ 2-16-107. Rules - The State Plant Board is hereby authorized to promulgate such...
§ 2-16-108. State Plant Board Operations and Facilities Construction Fund — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Board” means the...
§ 2-16-109. Turf purchased with state moneys — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “turf” means field-cultivated turf...
Subchapter 2 - Plant Act of 1917
§ 2-16-201. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Arkansas Plant Act...
§ 2-16-202. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 2-16-203. Penalty - (a) Any person who shall violate any provision or requirement...
§ 2-16-204. Actions of agents - In construing and enforcing the provisions of this subchapter, the...
§ 2-16-205. Effect of federal law - This subchapter shall not be so construed or enforced as...
§ 2-16-206. State Plant Board - (a) There is created and established a State Plant Board,...
§ 2-16-207. Powers and duties of board - (a) (1) The State Plant Board shall keep itself informed...
§ 2-16-208. Director of board - (a) (1) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions...
§ 2-16-209. Transportation, etc., of insect pests, etc., generally - (a) Transportation through or into or transportation, distribution, or sale...
§ 2-16-210. Certificate of inspection required - (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell,...
§ 2-16-211. Eradication of pests, diseases, or noxious weeds - (a) Whenever the inspection discloses that any places, plants, plant...
§ 2-16-212. Regulation of pests or diseases within state - (a) Whenever the State Plant Board shall find that there...
§ 2-16-213. Receiving noncomplying plants, etc - Any person in this state who receives any plant or...
§ 2-16-214. Review of rules, etc - Any person affected by any rules made or notice given,...
Subchapter 3 - Emergency Plant Act of 1921
§ 2-16-301. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Arkansas Emergency Plant...
§ 2-16-302. Definitions - For the purposes of this subchapter, unless the context otherwise...
§ 2-16-303. Provisions supplemental - This subchapter shall not be construed as limiting the authority...
§ 2-16-304. Penalties — Prosecution - (a) Any person who shall violate any provision of this...
§ 2-16-305. Actions of agents - In construing and enforcing the provisions of this subchapter, the...
§ 2-16-306. Enforcement - (a) (1) The provisions of this subchapter and the rules...
§ 2-16-307. Infested zones — Emergency proclamation - (a) Upon satisfactory information acquired in any manner or upon...
§ 2-16-308. Infested zones — Regulation by State Plant Board — Destruction of plants, etc - (a) It shall be the duty of the State Plant...
§ 2-16-309. Claims committee - (a) Whenever property shall be damaged, destroyed, or rendered unproductive...
§ 2-16-310. Annual report - The State Plant Board shall make an annual report to...
Subchapter 4 - Pesticide Control
§ 2-16-401. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Arkansas Pesticide Control...
§ 2-16-402. Purpose - (a) The purpose of this subchapter is to regulate in...
§ 2-16-403. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 2-16-404. Penalties - (a) Any person who violates any provision of this subchapter...
§ 2-16-405. Administration - (a) This subchapter shall be administered by the State Plant...
§ 2-16-406. Powers of State Plant Board - (a) The State Plant Board is authorized, after due notice...
§ 2-16-407. Pesticide registration required - (a) Each pesticide must have been accepted for registration by...
§ 2-16-408. Registration of pesticides for local needs - (a) Provided the State Plant Board is certified by the...
§ 2-16-409. Experimental-use permits - (a) Provided the State Plant Board is authorized by the...
§ 2-16-410. Misbranded pesticides - A pesticide is misbranded: (1) If its labeling bears any...
§ 2-16-411. Unlawful actions — Exceptions - (a) (1) It is unlawful for any person to distribute...
§ 2-16-412. Enforcement - (a) (1) The sampling and examination of pesticides or devices...
§ 2-16-413. Issuance of stop-sale, etc., order - (a) When the State Plant Board has reasonable cause to...
§ 2-16-414. Hearing on stop-sale, etc., order - (a) (1) After service of a stop-sale, use, or removal...
§ 2-16-415. Subpoenas - The State Plant Board may issue subpoenas to compel the...
§ 2-16-416. Intergovernmental cooperation - The State Plant Board may cooperate, receive grants-in-aid, and enter...
§ 2-16-417. Publication of information - The State Plant Board may publish, in such form as...
§ 2-16-418. Protection of trade secrets and other information - (a) In submitting data required by this subchapter, the applicant...
§ 2-16-419. Disposition of funds - All moneys received by the State Plant Board under the...
Subchapter 5 - Johnson Grass Control and Eradication
§ 2-16-501. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Johnson Grass Control...
§ 2-16-502. Applicability - The provisions of this subchapter shall be applicable to and...
§ 2-16-503. Penalty - (a) Any landowner or any person having control of any...
§ 2-16-504. Petition to establish district - (a) (1) Upon the petition of fifty (50) landowners filed...
§ 2-16-505. Establishment of district - (a) When the question as to whether this subchapter shall...
§ 2-16-506. Powers and duties of district supervisors - (a) The district Johnson grass control and eradication supervisor of...
§ 2-16-507. State assistance - The Director of the State Plant Board is authorized to...
§ 2-16-508. Civil remedies - (a) Notwithstanding the criminal penalty for the violation of this...
§ 2-16-509. Duties of landowners - It shall be the duty of the State of Arkansas...
§ 2-16-510. Acceptance of gifts, etc - The district Johnson grass control board is authorized to accept...
§ 2-16-511. Abolition of district - (a) Any district established under the provisions of this subchapter...
Subchapter 6 - Arkansas Boll Weevil Suppression Eradication Act
§ 2-16-601. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Arkansas Boll Weevil...
§ 2-16-602. Declaration of policy — Purpose — Construction - (a) The General Assembly has found and determined and does...
§ 2-16-603. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Assessment” means the...
§ 2-16-604. Criminal penalties - (a) Any person who shall violate any of the provisions...
§ 2-16-605. Rules - (a) (1) The State Plant Board may promulgate rules restricting...
§ 2-16-606. Cooperative programs authorized - The State Plant Board is hereby authorized to carry out...
§ 2-16-607. Entry of premises — Suppression or eradication activities — Inspections - (a) The State Plant Board, or its authorized representatives, shall...
§ 2-16-608. Reports - Every person growing cotton in this state shall furnish to...
§ 2-16-609. Quarantine - (a) The State Plant Board is authorized to promulgate rules...
§ 2-16-610. Designation of eradication zones — Prohibition of planting of cotton — Participation in suppression eradication program — Penalties - (a) The State Plant Board may designate by rule one...
§ 2-16-611. Destruction or treatment of volunteer or other noncommercial cotton in eradication zones — Liability - (a) The State Plant Board shall have authority to destroy,...
§ 2-16-612. Certification of cotton growers' organization — Requirements - (a) The State Plant Board may certify a cotton growers'...
§ 2-16-613. Certification of cotton growers' organization — Revocation - (a) (1) Upon determination by the State Plant Board that...
§ 2-16-614. Referendum — Assessments - (a) (1) At the request of the certified cotton growers'...
§ 2-16-615. Conduct of referendum - The arrangements for and management of any referendum held under...
§ 2-16-616. Subsequent referenda - (a) In the event any referendum conducted under this subchapter...
§ 2-16-617. Failure to pay assessments — Extensions — Exemption - (a) (1) A cotton grower who fails to pay when...
Subchapter 7 - Arkansas Fire Ant Advisory Board
§ 2-16-701. Creation - (a) The Arkansas Fire Ant Advisory Board is hereby created...
§ 2-16-702. Members - (a) The Arkansas Fire Ant Advisory Board shall be composed...
§ 2-16-703. Chair — Meetings - (a) The Vice President for Agriculture of the University of...
§ 2-16-704. Rules - The Arkansas Fire Ant Advisory Board may promulgate rules necessary...
§ 2-16-705. Annual report - No later than January 1 of each year, the Arkansas...
Subchapter 8 - Thistle Control and Eradication
§ 2-16-801. Annual assessment - (a) As a part of its assessment of activities and...
§ 2-16-802. Interagency cooperation - A coordinated, concerted effort by the various agencies affected by...
Subchapter 9 - Pest Control Compact
§ 2-16-901. Pest Control Compact - The Pest Control Compact is hereby enacted into law and...
§ 2-16-902. Cooperation with insurance fund - Consistent with law and within available appropriations, the departments, agencies...
§ 2-16-903. Filing of bylaws and amendments - Under Article IV (h) of the Compact, copies of bylaws...
§ 2-16-904. Compact administrator - The Compact administrator for this state shall be the Director...
§ 2-16-905. Request or application for assistance - Within the meaning of Article VI (b) or VIII (a),...
§ 2-16-906. Notices - In addition to the state Compact administrator, notices under Article...
§ 2-16-907. Credit for expenditures - The department, agency, or officer expending or becoming liable for...
§ 2-16-908. Definition - As used in this Compact, with reference to this state,...
§ 2-16-909. Effective date - This law becomes effective September 1, 2009.