Illinois Compiled Statutes 505 Agriculture: Article -

• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 1
  Short title. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961". (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3085.)
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 2
  Enforcing official. The Director of the Department of Agriculture, hereinafter referred to as the "Director", shall administer this Act. (Source: P.A. 97-960, eff. 8-15-12.)
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 3
  Definitions of words and terms. When used in this Act unless the context otherwise requires: "AAPFCO" means the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials....
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 4
  License and product registration. (a) Each brand and grade of fertilizer shall be registered by the entity whose name appears upon the label before being...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 5
  Labeling. (a) Any fertilizer or custom blend distributed in this State in non-bulk containers shall have placed on or affixed to the container a label...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 6
  Inspection fees. (a) There shall be paid to the Director for all fertilizers distributed in this State an inspection fee at the rate of 25¢...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 6a
  Nutrient Research and Education Council. The Director is hereby authorized to ensure that distributors remit a designated fertilizer tonnage assessment to the Nutrient Research and...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 6b
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 91-754, eff. 7-1-00. Repealed by P.A. 97-960, eff. 8-15-12.)
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 7
  Inspection, sampling, analysis. (a) It is the duty of the Director, who may act through his authorized agent, to sample, inspect, make analysis of, and...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 8
  Plant food deficiency. If any fertilizer offered for sale in this State proves, upon official analysis, to be deficient from its guaranteed analysis, penalty shall...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 9
  Commercial value. On the basis of information secured from entities holding a license to sell fertilizers in Illinois, the following values will be used for...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 10
  Minimum plant food content. No superphosphate containing less than 18% available phosphate nor any mixed fertilizer or custom blend, other than a custom blend consisting...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 11
  Misbranding or adulteration. It is unlawful for any entity to distribute a fertilizer in this State that is misbranded or adulterated within the meaning of...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 12
  Tonnage reports; records. (a) Any entity distributing fertilizer to a consumer or end user in this State shall provide the Director with a summary report...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 13
  Publications. The Director shall publish at least semi-annually and in such forms as he may deem proper: (a) Information concerning the distribution of fertilizers by...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 14
  Rules and regulations. (a) For the enforcement of this Act, the Director is authorized, after due notice and public hearing, to prescribe and to enforce...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 15
  Short weight. If any fertilizer in the possession of the consumer or end user is found by the Director to be short in weight, the...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 16
  Cancellation, suspension, or refusal of registrations and licenses. The Director may refuse to register a fertilizer or cancel or suspend a fertilizer registration, custom blend,...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 17
  Stop sale; use or removal order. (a) Whenever the Director finds that a fertilizer is being distributed in violation of this Act or its rules,...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 18
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 77-106. Repealed by P.A. 97-960, eff. 8-15-12.)
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 18a
  Location and operation. (a) Before installing fertilizer facilities for the distribution or storage of anhydrous ammonia or low-pressure nitrogen solutions, the owner shall apply to...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 19
  Seizures, prosecutions, and injunctions. (a) Any lot of fertilizer, custom blend, or speciality fertilizer not in compliance with the provisions of this Act may be...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 20
  Administrative hearings; notice. Any entity so notified of violating this Act or its rules, shall be given the opportunity to be heard as may be...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 21
  Exchanges between manufacturers. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to restrict or avoid sales or exchanges of fertilizers to each other by importers, manufacturers,...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 21.5
  Constitutionality. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall for any reason be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 22
  Repeal. "An Act to regulate the sale and analysis of commercial fertilizers and to repeal an Act therein named", approved June 29, 1927, as...
• Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. - 505 ILCS 80, Section 23
  Effective date. This Act shall take effect January 1, 1962. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3085.)

Last modified: February 18, 2015