Iowa Code § 206.12 - Registration

1. Every pesticide which is distributed, sold, or offered for sale for use within this state or delivered for transportation or transported in intrastate commerce between points within the state through any point outside this state shall be registered with the department of agriculture and land stewardship. All registration of products shall expire on the thirty-first day of December following date of issuance, unless such registration shall be renewed annually, in which event expiration date shall be extended for each year of renewal registration, or until otherwise terminated; provided that: a. For the purpose of this chapter, a fertilizer in a mixed fertilizer-pesticide formulation or a beneficial substance in a beneficial substance-pesticide formulation shall be considered as an inert ingredient. b. Within the discretion of the secretary, or the secretary’s authorized representative, a change in the labeling or formulae of a pesticide may be made within the current period of registration, without requiring a reregistration of the product, provided the name of the item is not changed. c. The secretary shall provide for a three-month grace period for registration. 2. The registrant shall file with the department a statement containing: a. The name and address of the registrant and the name and address of the person whose name will appear on the label, if other than the registrant. b. The name of the pesticide. c. A complete copy of the labeling accompanying the pesticide and a statement of all claims made and to be made for it including directions for use. d. A full description of the tests made and results thereof upon which the claims are based, if requested by the secretary. In the case of renewal or reregistration, a statement may be required only with respect to information which is different from that furnished when the pesticide was registered or last reregistered. 3. The registrant, before selling or offering for sale any pesticide for use in this state, shall register each brand and grade of such pesticide with the secretary upon forms furnished by the secretary. The secretary shall set the registration fee annually at three hundred dollars for each and every brand and grade to be offered for sale in this state. The secretary shall adopt by rule exemptions to the fee. Fifty dollars of each fee collected shall be deposited in the general fund of the state and shall be used only for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter. The remainder of each fee collected shall be deposited in the agriculture management account of the groundwater protection fund created in section 455E.11. 4. The secretary, whenever the secretary deems it necessary in the administration of this chapter, may require the submission of the complete formula of any pesticide. If it appears to the secretary that the composition of the article is such as to warrant the proposed claims for it and if the article and its labeling and other material required to be submitted comply with the requirements of this chapter, the secretary shall register the article. 5. If it does not appear to the secretary that the article is such as to warrant the proposed claims for it or if the article and its labeling and other material required to be submitted do not comply with the provisions of this chapter, the secretary shall notify the registrant of the manner in which the article, labeling, or other material required to be submitted fail to comply with this chapter so as to afford the registrant an opportunity to make the necessary corrections. 6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, registration is not required in the case of a pesticide shipped from one plant within this state to another plant within this state operated by the same person. 7. a. Each licensee under section 206.8 shall file an annual report at the time of application for licensure with the secretary of agriculture in a form specified by the secretary of agriculture and which includes the following information: (1) The gross retail sales of all pesticides sold at retail for use in this state by a licensee with one hundred thousand dollars or more in gross retail sales of the pesticides sold for use in this state. (2) The individual label name and dollar amount of each pesticide sold at retail for which gross retail sales of the individual pesticide are three thousand dollars or more. b. A person who is subject to the household hazardous materials permit requirements, and whose gross annual retail sales of pesticides are less than ten thousand dollars for each business location owned or operated by the person, shall report annually, the individual label name of an individual pesticide for which annual gross retail sales are three thousand dollars or more. The information shall be submitted on a form provided to household hazardous materials permittees by the department of natural resources, and the department of natural resources shall remit the forms to the department of agriculture and land stewardship. c. Notwithstanding the reporting requirements of this section, the secretary of agriculture may, upon recommendation of the advisory committee created pursuant to section 206.23, and if the committee declares a pesticide to be a pesticide of special concern, require the reporting of annual gross retail sales of a pesticide. d. A person who sells feed which contains a pesticide as an integral part of the feed mixture shall not be subject to the reporting requirements of this section. However, a person who manufactures feed which contains a pesticide as an integral part of the feed mixture shall be subject to the licensing requirements of section 206.8. e. The information collected and included in the report required under this section shall remain confidential. Public reporting concerning the information collected shall be performed in a manner which does not identify a specific brand name in the report. [C66, 71, 73, §206.4; C75, 77, 79, 81, §206.12] 87 Acts, ch 225, §222, 223; 88 Acts, ch 1156, §2 – 4; 90 Acts, ch 1133, §1; 91 Acts, ch 89, §3; 91 Acts, ch 124, §3; 91 Acts, ch 260, §1218; 93 Acts, ch 131, §9; 94 Acts, ch 1107, §49; 2000 Acts, ch 1066, §41; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §85; 2012 Acts, ch 1095, §133 – 135; 2022 Acts, ch 1152, §10; 2023 Acts, ch 64, §30; 2024 Acts, ch 1185, §153; 2025 Acts, ch 134, §21 Referred to in §206.11, 206.16, 206.22, 455E.11 Subsection 1, paragraph a amended