§ 3.1-126.12:1. (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Authority of Board and Commissioner to promulgate regulation...
A. The Board is authorized to promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to give effect to the full intent and meaning of this chapter. Such regulations may relate, by way of example, but not by way of limitation, to investigational allowances, definitions, records, manufacturing practices and to the distribution and storage of liming material.
B. The Commissioner may adopt, as a regulation, (i) the Official Fertilizer Terms and Definitions adopted by the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials; (ii) the methods of sampling and analysis for liming material adopted by the Association of Official Analytical Chemists; and (iii) any method of sampling and analysis for liming material developed by the Department or adopted by agencies of the federal government, agencies of other states, the Division of Consolidated Laboratories or other commercial laboratories accredited by the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture or Association of Official Analytical Chemists. Such regulations adopted by the Commissioner shall be effective upon filing with the Registrar of Regulations, who shall publish the regulation as a final regulation in the Virginia Register of Regulations. The regulation shall contain a preamble stating that the Board will receive, consider, and respond to petitions by any interested person at any time with respect to reconsideration or revision of such regulation. The Board, after giving notice in the Virginia Register of Regulations, may reconsider and revise the regulation adopted by the Commissioner. Such revised regulation shall be effective upon filing with the Registrar of Regulations, who shall publish the regulation as a final regulation in the Virginia Register of Regulations. Neither the provisions of the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.) nor public participation guidelines adopted pursuant thereto shall apply to the adoption, reconsideration or revision of any regulation adopted pursuant to this subsection.
(1994, c. 649.)
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