This Chapter regulates legal and institutional framework of seed and plant certification. The State Seed and Plant Board is the main authority responsible for administering the seed and plant certification program. The chapter regulates Board’s composition, its internal rules of procedure, and standards of conduct. Its power and duties include the power to establish, not inconsistent with federal law, the eligibility of various kinds and varieties of seed and plants for genetic purity and identity certification and the procedures for that certification; establish standards of genetic purity and identity; licensing of producers of foundation, registered, or certified seed or plants; adoption of rules governing the production and handling by licensed producers of certified classes of seed and plants to ensure the maintenance of genetic purity and identity. Further, the chapter lays down rules on eligibility for and standards of certification ; the classification of certified seed in classes of Breeder, foundation, registered, and certified; licensing of producers of foundation, registered, or certified seed; registration of plant breeders; notice and analysis of examination results; certification of seed and plants; registration of plant breeders; seed and plants from outside the state; revocation, modification, or suspension of registration or license. The Texas Department of Agriculture is the certifying agency in Texas for the certification of seed and plants. Offenses and penalties under this chapter are further explained.
États-Unis d'Amérique · 1981-09-01