38-35-3. Application for grower license--Location and size requirements.
After the department receives approval by the United States Secretary of Agriculture for the state plan submitted pursuant to §38-35-15, any person seeking to purchase, receive, or obtain industrial hemp, other than industrial hemp product, for planting, storing, propagating, or producing shall apply to the secretary for a grower license on an application form prescribed by the department and submit a nonrefundable annual application fee. The secretary shall deposit fees collected under this chapter in the hemp regulatory program fund.
An application for licensure to plant, grow, or produce industrial hemp must be for at least one-half, contiguous outdoor acre with a three hundred plant minimum, or in a greenhouse with a fifty plant minimum, or combination thereof. No industrial hemp grower's license may be issued by the secretary to plant, grow, or produce industrial hemp within the corporate limits of any incorporated municipality without receiving verification from the municipality that it meets all applicable municipal zoning regulations.
Source: SL 2020, ch 176, §3, eff. Mar. 27, 2020; SL 2021, ch 182, §1, eff. Mar. 25, 2021; SL 2022, ch 155, §3, eff. Mar. 18, 2022.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 38 - Agriculture and Horticulture
Section 38-35-1 - Definitions.
Section 38-35-3 - Application for grower license--Location and size requirements.
Section 38-35-3.1 - Application for a research license.
Section 38-35-4 - Application for processor license--Fee--Location notice.
Section 38-35-5 - Criminal background check--Denial of license for conviction--Licensure exemption.
Section 38-35-6 - Hemp regulatory program fund--Purpose--Expenditures.
Section 38-35-7 - License issuance--Denial, revocation, or suspension--Contested case.
Section 38-35-8 - Planting verification--Documentation to be filed--Contents.
Section 38-35-10 - Inspection timing and procedure--Disclose information.
Section 38-35-11 - Promulgation of rules--Fees.
Section 38-35-12 - Department of Health--Promulgation of rules.
Section 38-35-14 - Testing samples--Exceeding concentration--Destruction or remediation of lot.
Section 38-35-18 - Rules of United States Department of Agriculture.
Section 38-35-19 - Reporting to attorney general.
Section 38-35-20 - Coordination with other government entities.
Section 38-35-21 - Industrial hemp for smoking prohibited--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 38-35-22 - Industrial hemp used in wildlife food plots.
Section 38-35-23 - Prohibition on industrial hemp and marijuana being commingled.