(1) No person shall manufacture commercial feed within the state, or allow his or her name to appear on the label of a commercial feed as guarantor, without first registering with the department. Such registration shall expire on the date specified by the commissioner by rule and may be renewed annually.
(2) Nothing in this article shall require a person to register with the department to do the following:
Distribute packaged commercial feed in its original package if that feed was packaged and labeled by a registered manufacturer or distributor whose name and address appears on the package label;
Distribute bulk commercial feed that is:
Distributed in the same form, but not necessarily the same quantities, in which it wasreceived from a registered manufacturer or distributor; and
Labeled with the information, except the quantity statement, that was provided bythe registered manufacturer or distributor from whom the bulk commercial feed was received;
(c) Manufacture or distribute a customer-formula feed; except that the manufacturer of such customer-formula feed shall:
Distribute such customer-formula feed only to the final purchaser for whom the feedwas formulated;
Obtain all commercial feeds used as ingredients in such customer-formula feed fromregistered manufacturers or distributors; and
(d) Manufacture or distribute commercial feed as an employee of a person registered pursuant to subsection (1) of this section.
Source: L. 99: Entire article R&RE, p. 567, § 1, effective January 1, 2000. L. 2007: (1) and (2)(c)(I) amended, p. 992, § 3, effective May 22.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 35-60-103 as it existed prior to 1999.