The commissioner may revoke, refuse or suspend the registration of any brand of fertilizer or refuse to register any brand of fertilizer as herein provided, upon satisfactory evidence that the registrant or applicant for registration has violated any provision of this chapter or has used fraudulent or deceptive practices in the evasion or attempted evasion of the provisions of this chapter or any regulations adopted thereunder; provided no registration shall be revoked, refused or suspended until the registrant has been given the opportunity to appear for a hearing by the commissioner or the commissioner's designee.
(February, 1965, P.A. 198, S. 12; P.A. 73-278, S. 8, 21; P.A. 09-229, S. 17.)
History: P.A. 73-278 replaced “director”, i.e. director of Agricultural Experiment Station with “commissioner”, i.e. commissioner of agriculture; P.A. 09-229 substituted “revoke, refuse or suspend” for “cancel”, deleted “commercial” re fertilizer, added provision re violation of chapter, added “or the commissioner's designee” and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2009.