§ 137. Label requirements of all seeds, including lawn-seeding\nmixtures. Each container of seed which is sold, offered or exposed for\nsale, or transported in this state for planting purposes, shall bear\nthereon or have attached thereto in a conspicuous place, a plainly\nwritten or printed label or tag in the English language, giving the\nfollowing information:\n A. All seeds except seed potatoes:\n 1. The name and address of the person who labeled said seed, or who\nsells, offers or exposes said seed for sale within this state.\n 2. If seed has been treated as defined in this article, the commonly\naccepted or trade name and/or the purpose of the treatment.\n 3. If seed has received an application of a substance harmful to\nhumans or other vertebrates in the quantities used, a warning adequate\nto protect the public.\n B. All seeds, except tree or shrub seeds and seed potatoes where\npercentage of germination, exclusive of hard seed and/or percentage of\nhard seed are required to be indicated, the terms "total" or "total\ngermination and hard seed" may be used, but the term "total germination"\nalone may not be used.\n C. Agricultural seeds, including lawn-seeding mixtures:\n 1. In order of their predominance, the name of the kind or kind and\nvariety, of each agricultural seed component in excess of five per cent\nof the whole, and the percentage by weight of each, except that where\nmore than ten per cent of the whole consists of an aggregate of\nagricultural seed components each present in an amount not exceeding\nfive per cent of the whole, each component in excess of one per cent of\nthe whole shall be named together with the percentage by weight of each.\n 2. Where more than one agricultural seed component is named, the word\nmixture, mix, or mixed shall be shown conspicuously on the label.\n 3. Lot number or other lot identification.\n 4. Percentage by weight of all weed seeds.\n 5. The name and number of seeds per pound of each kind of noxious weed\nseed present.\n 6. Percentage by weight of agricultural seeds or crop seeds other than\nthose labeled as components and in addition the commissioner may by\nregulation designate certain crop seeds as undesirable lawn seeds and\nwhen present in lawn seed or lawn seeding mixtures, the manner in which\nthey must be identified on the labeling.\n 7. The name and number of seeds per pound of rye and hairy vetch\n(vicia villosa) seeds when present in seeds of wheat, oats and barley.\n 8. Percentage by weight of inert matter.\n 9. For each agricultural seed component:\n (a) Percentage of germination, exclusive of hard seed.\n (b) Percentage of hard seed, if present.\n (c) Calendar month and year test was completed to determine such\npercentages.\n 10. For cool season lawn and turf grasses including Kentucky\nbluegrass, red fescue, chewings fescue, hard fescue, tall fescue,\nperennial ryegrass, intermediate ryegrass, annual ryegrass, colonial\nbentgrass, creeping bentgrass and mixtures thereof:\n (a) Calendar month and year the test was completed to determine such\npercentages. Oldest test date shall be used.\n (b) The statement "Sell by " which may be no more than fifteen\nmonths from the date of test exclusive of the month of test.\n 11. For agricultural seeds that are coated:\n (a) Percentage by weight of pure seeds with coating material removed.\n (b) Percentage by weight of coating material.\n (c) Percentage by weight of inert material exclusive of coating\nmaterial.\n (d) Percentage by germination is to be determined on four hundred\npellets with or without seeds.\n D. Vegetable seeds:\n 1. For vegetable seeds in packets for use in home gardens or household\nplantings or vegetable seeds in pre-planted containers, mats, tapes, or\nother planting devices and for peas, beans, and sweet corn in containers\nof one pound or less, and other kinds of vegetable seeds in containers\nof one-quarter pound or less\n (a) Name of kind and variety of s
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