SB-0777, As Passed Senate, March 30, 2006

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 777

     A bill to amend 1965 PA 329, entitled

"Michigan seed law,"

(MCL 286.701 to 286.716) by amending the title, as amended by 1988

PA 455, and by adding section 14; and to repeal acts and parts of

acts.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

TITLE

     An act to regulate the labeling, coloration, advertising,

sale, offering, exposing, or transporting for sale of agricultural,

vegetable, lawn, flower, and forest tree seeds; to authorize the

director of agriculture to adopt rules for the enforcement of this

act; to provide for the inspection and testing of seed; to

prescribe license fees; to preempt ordinances prohibiting or

regulating certain activities with respect to seeds; and to

prescribe penalties for violation of this act.  ; and to repeal

certain acts and parts of acts.

     Sec. 14. (1) A local unit of government shall not adopt,

maintain, or enforce an ordinance that prohibits or regulates the

labeling, sale, storage, transportation, distribution, use, or

planting of agricultural, vegetable, flower, turf grass, or forest

tree seeds.

     (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an ordinance that

prohibits or regulates the use of certain plants for landscaping or

that prohibits or regulates noxious or invasive plants.

     (3) Section 15 does not apply to a violation of this section.

     Enacting section 1. Section 16 of the Michigan seed law, 1965

PA 329, MCL 286.716, is repealed.