As Amended
SEC. 69-21-103. Declaration of purpose. [Repealed effective June 30, 2004].
The purpose of this article is to supervise and regulate for the public good all commercial agricultural aerial application within the State of Mississippi and to establish and promote a close working relationship between agricultural aerial applicators and the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce, the licensing of all persons engaged in the aerial application of pesticides, poisons, seeds and chemicals, and the registration of all such commercial agricultural aircraft and pilots. It is the intent of the Legislature that the program established under this article provide a program of commercial aerial application control within the State of Mississippi sufficient to allow the state to retain delegation from the United States Environmental Protection Agency of the commercial aerial application regulation program created under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, 7 USCS 136-136y. This article also establishes an administrative hearing procedure for the board's use in enforcing the rules and regulations of the board.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 5011-02; Laws, 1966, ch. 239, Sec. 2; 1972, ch. 369, Sec. 8; 1980, ch. 482, Sec. 1; reenacted, 1983, ch. 304, Sec. 2; reenacted, 1991, ch. 391, Sec. 2; 1991, ch. 530, Sec. 10, eff from and after July 1, 1991. Reenacted without change, Laws, 1996, ch. 447, Sec. 2, eff from and after July 1, 1996; 1997 Laws, Chapter 468, Sec. 2, SB2288, Effective July 1, 1997. Reenacted by Laws 1999, Ch. 387, Sec. 2, HB759; Laws, 2002, ch. 301, § 2, HB 866, eff from and after passage (approved Jan. 31, 2002.).
PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2002.