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House Journal: Page 1524: Wednesday, April 12, 1995

40   secretary pursuant to this section shall be sent to
41   the members of the house of representatives and senate
42   standing committees on agriculture.
43     Sec. ___.  Section 206.12, subsection 3, Code 1995,
44   is amended to read as follows:
45     3.  The registrant, before selling or offering for
46   sale any pesticide for use in this state, shall
47   register each brand and grade of such pesticide with
48   the secretary upon forms furnished by the secretary,
49   and the secretary shall set the registration fee
50   annually at one-fifth of one percent of gross sales

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 1   within this state with a minimum fee of two hundred
 2   fifty dollars and a maximum fee of three thousand
 3   dollars for each and every brand and grade to be
 4   offered for sale in this state except as otherwise
 5   provided.  The annual registration fee for products
 6   with gross annual sales in this state of less than one
 7   million five hundred thousand dollars shall be the
 8   greater of two hundred fifty dollars or one-fifth of
 9   one percent of the gross annual sales as established
10   by affidavit of the registrant.  The secretary shall
11   adopt by rule exemptions to the minimum fee.  Fifty
12   dollars of each fee collected shall be deposited in
13   the general fund of the state, shall be subject to the
14   requirements of section 8.60, and shall be used only
15   for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this
16   chapter pesticide fund established in section
206.12A,
17   and the remainder of each fee collected shall be
18   placed in the agriculture management account of the
19   groundwater protection fund.
20     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  206.12A  PESTICIDE FUND.
21     1.  A pesticide fund is established in the state
22   treasury under the control of the department.  The
23   fund shall consist of any moneys appropriated to the
24   fund by the general assembly and any other moneys
25   available to and obtained or accepted by the
26   department from the federal government or private
27   sources for placement in the fund.  Fees collected
28   under section 206.12 shall be deposited in the fund.
29   The moneys in the fund shall be used only for the
30   purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter.
31     2.  All moneys in the pesticide fund are subject to
32   audit by the auditor of state.  The fund is subject at
33   all times to warrants by the director of revenue and
34   finance, drawn upon written requisition of the
35   secretary.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in
36   the pesticide fund shall remain in the fund and shall
37   not revert to the general fund of the state.
38   Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest
39   or earnings on moneys deposited in the pesticide fund
40   shall be credited to the pesticide fund.

Iowa General Assembly

Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 1)

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