2003 Minnesota Statutes

     21.90 Hybrid seed field corn variety registration. 

    Subdivision 1.    Growing zones.  The director of the 
 agricultural experiment station at the University of Minnesota 
 shall determine, establish, and number or otherwise identify 
 corn growing zones of the state and determine and publish a list 
 of day classifications for each zone which will approximate the 
 number of days growing season necessary for corn from emergence 
 of the corn plants above ground after planting to relative 
 maturity.  

    Subd. 2.    Fees.  A record of each new hybrid seed 
 field corn variety to be sold in Minnesota shall be registered 
 with the commissioner by March 1 of each year by the originator 
 or owner.  Records of all other hybrid seed field corn varieties 
 sold in Minnesota shall be registered with the commissioner by 
 August 1 of each year by the originator or owner.  The 
 commissioner shall establish the annual fee for registration for 
 each variety.  The record shall include the permanent 
 designation of the hybrid as well as the day classification and 
 zone of adaptation, as determined under subdivision 1, which the 
 originator or owner declares to be the zone in which the variety 
 is adapted.  In addition, at the time of the first registration 
 of a hybrid seed field corn variety, the originator or owner 
 shall include a sworn statement that the declaration of the zone 
 of adaptation was based on actual field trials in that zone and 
 that the field trials substantiate the declaration as to the day 
 and zone classifications to which the variety is adapted.  The 
 name or number used to designate a hybrid seed field corn 
 variety in the registration is the only name of all seed corn 
 covered by or sold under that registration. 

    Subd. 3.    Transfer of money.  To assist in defraying 
 the expenses of the Minnesota agricultural experiment station in 
 carrying out the provisions of this section, there shall be 
 transferred annually from the seed inspection account to the 
 agricultural experiment station a sum which shall at least equal 
 60 percent of the total revenue from all hybrid seed field corn 
 variety registrations.  

    HIST: 1983 c 293 s 49; 1986 c 444; 1999 c 231 s 46; 2003 c 128 
 art 8 s 19,20 

*   NOTE:  This section is repealed by Laws 2003, chapter 128, 
*article 8, section 22, effective August 1, 2006.