206.8  Pesticide dealer license.
  1.  It shall be unlawful for any person to act in the capacity of a pesticide dealer, or advertise as, or assume to act as a pesticide dealer at any time without first having obtained a license from the secretary which shall expire at the end of the calendar year of issue. A license shall be required for each location or outlet located within this state from which such pesticides are distributed. Any manufacturer, registrant, or distributor who has no pesticide dealer outlet licensed within this state and who distributes such pesticides directly into this state shall obtain a pesticide dealer license for the manufacturer’s, registrant’s, or distributor’s principal out-of-state location or outlet.
  2.  The annual license fee for a pesticide dealer is due and payable by June 30 of each year to the department. The annual license fee is based on the gross retail sales of all pesticides sold for use in this state by the dealer in the previous year. The license fee shall be set as follows:
  a.  (1)  A pesticide dealer with less than one hundred thousand dollars in gross retail pesticide sales shall pay a license fee according to the following schedule:
  (a)  Ten dollars, if the annual gross retail pesticide sales are less than ten thousand dollars.
  (b)  Twenty-five dollars, if the annual gross retail pesticide sales are ten thousand dollars or more but less than twenty-five thousand dollars.
  (c)  Fifty dollars, if the annual gross retail pesticide sales are twenty-five thousand dollars or more but less than fifty thousand dollars.
  (d)  Seventy-five dollars, if the annual gross retail pesticide sales are fifty thousand dollars or more but less than seventy-five thousand dollars.
  (e)  One hundred dollars, if the annual gross retail pesticide sales are seventy-five thousand dollars or more but less than one hundred thousand dollars.
  (2)  The secretary shall provide for a three-month grace period for licensure and shall impose a late fee of twenty-five dollars.
  b.  (1)  A pesticide dealer with one hundred thousand dollars or more in gross retail pesticide sales shall pay a license fee based on one-tenth of one percent of the gross retail pesticide sales in the previous year.
  (2)  The secretary shall provide for a three-month grace period for licensure and shall impose a late fee of five percent of the license fee calculated in subparagraph (1).
  3.  Up to twenty-five dollars of each annual license fee shall be retained by the department for administration of the program, and the remaining moneys collected shall be deposited in the agriculture management account of the groundwater protection fund.
  4.  Application for a license required for manufacturers and distributors who are not engaged in the retail sale of pesticides shall be accompanied by a twenty-five dollar fee for each business location within the state required to be licensed, and shall be on a form prescribed by the secretary.
  5.  This section does not apply to either of the following:
  a.  A pesticide applicator who applies pesticides which are owned and furnished to the pesticide applicator by another person, if the pesticide applicator does not charge for the sale of the pesticides.
  b.  A federal, state, county, or municipal governmental entity which provides pesticides only for its own programs.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §206.8]
87 Acts, ch 225, §219, 220; 88 Acts, ch 1156, §1; 91 Acts, ch 89, §1; 93 Acts, ch 176, §37; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §84; 2012 Acts, ch 1095, §127; 2017 Acts, ch 159, §44
Referred to in §206.6, 206.10, 206.12, 455E.11