Kansas Statutes 2-2129. Plant pest emergency response fund
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 2-2129
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Live plant: means any living plant, cultivated or wild, or any part thereof that can be planted or propagated unless specifically exempted by the rules or regulations of the secretary. See Kansas Statutes 2-2113
- Live plant dealer: means any person, unless excluded by rules and regulations adopted hereunder, who engages in business in the following manner:
(1) Grows live plants for sale or distribution;
(2) buys or obtains live plants for the purpose of reselling or reshipping within this state; or
(3) plants, transplants or moves live plants from place to place within the state with the intent to plant such live plants for others and receives compensation for the live plants, for the planting of such live plants or for both live plants and plantings. See Kansas Statutes 2-2113
- Secretary: means the secretary of the Kansas department of agriculture, or the authorized representative of the secretary. See Kansas Statutes 2-2113
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(a) There is hereby created a plant pest emergency response fund in the state treasury. Such fund shall be funded by a fee assessed in addition to the fees assessed a live plant dealer under article 21 of chapter 2 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto. The additional fee shall be fixed by rules and regulations adopted by the secretary of agriculture, except that such additional fee shall not exceed $5 annually on each live plant dealer license. The secretary is authorized and empowered to collect the fees provided in this section.
(b) The secretary is authorized and empowered to make expenditures from the plant pest emergency response fund and that in the discretion of the secretary mitigate pests that have been identified by the secretary as high risk pests having the potential to damage agriculture, horticulture or the environment. Such expenditures may include the costs of enforcement to protect against high risk pests identified by the secretary. All expenditures from such fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the secretary.
(c) The plant pest emergency response fund shall be a fund separate and distinct from the plant protection fee fund referred to in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 2-2128, and amendments thereto.
(d) The provisions of this section shall be part of and supplemental to this act.