N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 142: Implementation

§ 142. Implementation. The commissioner may adopt and promulgate such

rules and regulations to supplement and give full effect to the

provisions of this article as he may deem necessary. The commissioner or

his authorized agents may remove from further sale or prohibit from sale

any unlabeled seed or any seeds which are found to be so unclean as to

be unfit for seeding purposes until they have been properly recleaned

and may prohibit further sale or may destroy seeds which are found to be

so weak or low in germination as to be unfit for seeding purposes.

The commissioner may, through promulgation of regulations, add to, or

subtract noxious weed seeds from definition seven, section one hundred

thirty-six of this article, whenever he finds, after public hearing,

that such addition or subtraction is in the best interests of the

agriculture of this state.

In promulgating the initial germination standard for each kind of

flower, tree and shrub seed, the commissioner shall publish the proposed

standard at least three years previous to its effective date and shall

arrange a public hearing for consideration of the proposed standard

prior to its final adoption. The commissioner may, at his discretion,

temporarily suspend any flower seed germination standard thus

promulgated.