§ 35-27.3-106 — Record-keeping requirements - annual record reviews

Colorado § 35-27.3-106

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 35: Agriculture
• Art.: Colorado Seed Potato Act

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(1)
Each person growing potatoes in this state in lots of one acre or greater shall keep
and maintain records, by cultivar and by field, of the hundredweight of potato
cultivar or cultivars planted per field. The records shall contain the information
required for an independent records review conducted pursuant to paragraph (b) of
subsection (2) of this section. Growers shall maintain the records for a period of at
least two years at the grower's business address.

(2) (a) The commissioner shall select a qualified department employee to
perform a records review on at least ten percent of potato growers subject to this
article 27.3 once every seed potato crop cycle. The commissioner shall determine a
method for the annual random selection of growers. The area committee for area
no. 2, established in the marketing order regulating the handling of potatoes grown
in the state of Colorado, as amended, issued pursuant to the Colorado Agricultural
Marketing Act of 1939, article 28 of this title 35, shall pay the actual costs of such
records reviews.

(b) A records review performed pursuant to this section shall verify records
that trace back the grower's potatoes, including records that evidence the
following:

(I) Acreage planted by cultivar; and

(II) Hundredweight and source of the seed used to plant the acreage, with
verifiable documents related to:

(A) For seed potatoes purchased, the documents described in section 35-27.3-104 (2) and (3); or

(B) For seed potatoes planted pursuant to section 35-27.3-105 (2), the
testing history and seed potatoes used to replant the grower's own operations.

(3) Repealed.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2010: Entire article added, (SB 10-072), ch. 384, p. 1796, � 5, effective July 1. L. 2019: (2)(a) amended and (3) repealed, (SB 19-147), ch. 100, p. 364, � 3, effective August 2.