(1) The commissioner shall establish a registration and certification program for authorized samplers.
(2) (a) The commissioner shall develop hemp sampling and testing procedures to sample and test one hundred percent of the hemp lots planted each year. Each registered land area, including each lot within a registered land area, must be inspected and sampled to ensure compliance with all requirements of this article 61 and to determine the total THC content.
An authorized sampler, or employee of the department, shall collect samples of flower material from all lots grown on the registered land area.
A registrant shall not harvest the hemp crop prior to samples being collected.
An authorized sampler shall submit collected samples to a state certified industrialhemp testing laboratory.
Source: L. 2015: Entire section added, (SB 15-196), ch. 280, p. 1148, § 4, effective August 5. L. 2018: Entire section amended, (HB 18-1023), ch. 55, p. 590, § 22, effective October 1. L. 2019: Entire section amended, (SB 19-224), ch. 315, p. 2942, § 30, effective January 1, 2020. L. 2020: Entire section amended, (SB 20-197), ch. 194, p. 903, § 7, effective September 14.