A. No person shall be subject to the penalties of this subarticle for having sold, offered, or exposed for sale in this state any agricultural seed or vegetable seed which is incorrectly labeled or represented as to kind, kind and variety, or origin which cannot be identified by examination, unless the person failed to obtain an invoice or grower's declaration giving kind, or kind and variety, and origin, and to take precautions necessary or required to insure the identity and variety of the seed.
B. The provisions of Sections 8-22 and 8-23 of this title shall not apply:
1. To seed sold by a farmer or grower to a seed dealer or processor, or in storage in, or consigned to, a seed cleaning or processing establishment for cleaning or processing; provided, that any labeling or other representation which may be made with respect to uncleaned seed shall be subject to the provisions of this subarticle.
2. To any carrier in respect to any seed transported or delivered for transportation in the ordinary course of its business as a carrier, if the carrier is not engaged in producing, processing, or marketing agricultural or vegetable seed.
Added by Laws 1955, p. 67, art. 8(B), § 5. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 367, § 88, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000.