5E-4.007. Commercial Tests and Consumer Request Samples

(1) The department will make commercial tests and perform analysis of consumer request samples of seed when such will not interfere with prescribed duties of the department. (2) Definitions. As used in this rule, the following definitions shall apply: (a) Consumer means individuals who purchase and use seed for plant production purposes. (b) Consumer request seed samples means an official seed sample taken and analyzed by the department at the request of the consumer. (3) Schedule of charges for the collection, packaging, shipment and analysis of consumer request seed samples and commercial tests is listed below: Type Test and Charge Product Purity Germination (a) Aeschynomene $10.50 $15.75 (b) Alfalfa 15.75 15.75 (c) Austrian Winter Pea 10.50 15.75 (d) Bahiagrass, All Varieties 21.00 21.00 (e) Beggarweed 10.50 15.75 (f) Bentgrass 15.75 15.75 (g) Bermudagrass 21.00 15.75 (h) Bluegrass 21.00 15.75 (i) Buckwheat 15.75 15.75 (j) Carpetgrass 21.00 15.75 (k) Centipedegrass 21.00 15.75 (l) Chufa 10.50 21.00 (m) Clovers 15.75 15.75 (n) Corn, Field or Sweet 10.50 21.00 (o) Cowpeas 10.50 15.75 (p) Fescue 21.00 15.75 (q) Flowers 15.75 15.75 (r) Flowers, Mixed 26.25 31.50 (s) Hairy Indigo 15.75 15.75 (t) Hemp 21.00 21.00 (u) Herbs 15.75 15.75 (v) Lespedeza 15.75 15.75 (w) Lovegrass 21.00 15.75 (x) Lupine 10.50 15.75 (y) Millets 15.75 15.75 (z) Mixed Grasses 36.75 36.75 (aa) Oats 15.75 15.75 (bb) Partridge Pea 10.50 15.75 (cc) Peanuts, Hulled 10.50 15.75 (dd) Rye 15.75 15.75 (ee) Ryegrass 21.00 15.75 (ff) Rice 15.75 15.75 (gg) Sesame 10.50 15.75 (hh) Sesbania 10.50 15.75 (ii) Sorghum 15.75 15.75 (jj) Soybeans 10.50 15.75 (kk) Sunflower 10.50 15.75 (ll) Timothy 15.75 15.75 (mm) Tobacco 15.75 15.75 (nn) Tree or Shrub Seed 15.75 21.00 (oo) Triticale 15.75 15.75 (pp) Vegetables 10.50 15.75 (qq) Velvet bean 10.50 15.75 (rr) Vetch 10.50 15.75 (ss) Wheat 15.75 15.75 (4) The Cold Test for corn is $5.00. (5) Seed not listed will be charged according to other seed of similar size. (6) An additional charge of $5.00 is required for testing germination of uncleaned seed. (7) The charge for noxious weed test is equal to one-half of the charge of the purity test.