La. Admin. Code tit. 7 § XIII-125

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XIII-125 - Certification, Field Inspection, and Sampling Fees (Formerly Section 143)

A. All fees shall be paid before the requested work is performed, as follows.

1. All application fees and fees for inspections, re-inspections, sampling and re-sampling shall be paid at the time the application or request for work is submitted to LDAF, except for those crop kinds where the fee is based on an hourly rate and mileage.

2. Fees for certification of seeds by laboratory analysis shall be paid prior to submission of the certified sample to the State Seed Testing Laboratory.

3. Requests for different payment arrangements shall be made to and must be approved by the director or assistant director.

B. Application Fees

1. The application fee for certification for each producer shall be $28 for each variety with only one variety per application if the application is timely submitted.

2. The application fee for certification shall be $100 for each application submitted after the deadline shown in §509 of this Part.

C. Field inspection fees shall be charged as follows:

1. all crop, grass, and other seeds not listed in this Section - $1.15 per acre;

2. for the following species, California bulrush, sea oats, and smooth cordgrass:

a. an hourly fee of $25 per hour per inspector for each inspection; and

b. mileage for travel to and from inspection location at the mileage reimbursement rate established by the Division of Administration's state travel regulations;

3. rice-$1.15 per acre;

4. small grains-$1.15 per acre;

5. sugarcane-$3 per acre;

6. sweet potato:

a. field inspection-$2.25 per acre;

b. greenhouse and seedbed inspections-$62.50 per crop year;

c. seed storage inspection:

i. a fee of $25 per hour, per inspector for each seed sweet potato storage inspection, and

ii. mileage for travel to and from the inspection location mileage reimbursement rate established by the Division of Administration's state travel regulations.

7. turf and pasture grass-$31.25 per acre.

D. Reinspection fees-$50 for each re-inspection.

E. Fees for phytosanitary inspections-$1.15 per acre.

F. Fees for resampling certified seed-$30 for each re-sample.

G. Fees for bulk sampling-$30 for each bulk sample by vacuum probe.

H. Seed Certification Fees

1. Fees for certified seed shall be 16 cents per weight unit and be calculated on the total weight units in the certifiable lot. The number of weight units for a particular lot of seed shall be reported when the certified sample is taken.

a. The weight unit for all seeds is 50 pounds except for rice which has a weight unit of 100 pounds.

b. A person who sells, distributes, or offers for sale certified seed in Louisiana and who has paid certification fees for a particular lot of seed may request a partial refund, not to exceed 70 percent on the unsold portion of the certified lot.

c. A person requesting a refund must submit a written request, along with all unused tags from the certified lot, within nine months of the certified test date, stating:

i. the lot number for the seed that the request is being made;

ii. the number of weight units sold from the certified lot; and

iii. the number of weight units partitioned for refund from the certified lot.

d. A request for a refund shall be approved upon verification of the unused tags and information submitted with the request.

La. Admin. Code tit. 7, § XIII-125

Promulgated by the Department of Agriculture, Seed Commission, LR 8:566 (November 1982), amended LR 10:495 (July, 1984), amended by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Seed Commission, LR 12:825 (December 1986), LR 14:604 (September 1988), LR 16:847 (October 1990), LR 25:1617 (September 1999), LR 26:235 (February 2000), LR 29:2632 (December 2003), LR 31:420 (February 2005), LR 31:1511 (July 2005), LR 34:2339 (November 2008), LR 37:2979 (October 2011), LR 38:1558 (July 2012), repromulgated by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Office of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Chemistry and Seed Commission, LR 39:2705 (October 2013), amended LR 40:745 (April 2014).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 3:1433.