Sec. 61.007. CERTIFIED SEED. (a) A person may not sell or offer, expose, or transport for sale agricultural or vegetable seed that is represented by labeling or an advertisement to be certified seed unless:
(1) a seed certifying agency has determined that the seed conforms to standards of purity and identity as to kind, species, subspecies, or variety in accordance with the rules of the certifying agency; and
(2) the seed bears an official label issued by a seed certifying agency certifying that the seed is of a specific class, kind, species, subspecies, or variety.
(b) A person may not sell or offer, expose, or transport for sale seed labeled by variety name but not certified by an official seed certifying agency if it is a variety required by federal law to be sold only as a class of certified seed, except that seed from a certified lot may be labeled by variety name if used in a mixture by, or with the approval of, the owner of the variety.
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1129, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.
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