Tennessee Statutes
§ 43-8-106 — Powers of commissioner
Tennessee·Title 43
(a)The commissioner is authorized, after opportunity for a hearing, to:
(1)Declare any form of plant or animal life or virus that is injurious to plants, humans, domestic animals, articles or substances to be a pest;
(2)Determine whether pesticides are highly toxic to humans; and (3) Determine standards of coloring or discoloring for pesticides.
(b)The commissioner is further authorized to:
(1)Collect and undertake laboratory analysis of pesticides to determine their compliance with the requirements of this part and part 2 of this chapter; and the commissioner has the authority at all reasonable hours to enter into any car, warehouse, store, building, boat vessel or other place where pesticides are held for distribution or sale for the purpose of inspection or sampling, to procure sam
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Legislative History
Acts 1951, ch. 150, § 6 (Williams, § 6808.12); 1975, ch. 239, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 43-707; Acts 1980, ch. 539, § 7; 1988, ch. 878, § 4; T.C.A. §43-8-107.
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§ 43-1-101
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