Exemption to CA license to sell nursery stock

[MattyB]

Bruce posted something interesting in another thread. It was the rules for CA licensing to sell nursery stock. There's an interesting exemption in article 3 that states that if you sell less than $1000 of your own plants for distribution in your own county than you can notify the commissioner of your intent to do so and you are exempt from having to have a license to sell nursery stock. So, thinking about all of the people that you see adverstising plants on Craigslist, in the paper, selling plants at yard sales; who actually does this? I decided to go to the CDFA website and see how one goes about "notifying the commissioner" of ones intent to sell <$1000 nursery stock. No where could I find any such form or even find an email address of the "commissioner". Does anyone know how one goes about doing this? Has anyone ever done this ever? I sell an extra plant or two here and there and as much as I like to be legal the thought of getting on the radar of some government agency is not exactly appetizing. Thoughts?

nipm_2.pdf

[The Silent Seed]

If you don't want to be on the radar, then this is the last thing you want to be doing.

[Stevetoad]

ITS TO LATE MATT..........RRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

[tropicalb]

you'll be hearing from the commissioner soon enough matty...i took the liberty of forwarding a screenshot of your post to him....

JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!

[tropicalb]

in all seriousness matty...here is where you (being a resident of san diego county)would go:

http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/awm/press/pr_leondis_063011.html

this would have explained what bruce posted more thoroughly:

The COUNTY AGRICULTURAL COMMISSIONER is an enforcing officer of all laws, rules, and

regulations relative to the prevention of the introduction into or the spread within the state of plant

pests and as to such activities is under the supervision of the Secretary of Food and Agriculture.

The County Agricultural Commissioner inspects nurseries for pests injurious to plants and

assists the nurseryman with pest control problems. He/she inspects incoming shipments of

nursery stock, enforces plant quarantines, and inspects nursery stock for proper labeling and

condition.

The County Agricultural Commissioner issues shipping permits, nursery stock certificates,

and other required certificates to facilitate movement of nursery stock in trade.

the entire document is available here:

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/pe/Nursery/pdfs/nipm1.pdf

Edited January 5, 2012 by tropicalb

[Moose]

  On 1/5/2012 at 10:03 PM, santoury said:

If you don't want to be on the radar, then this is the last thing you want to be doing.

[Walter John]

there are lots of licenses for lots of stuff...

[pogobob]

Lots of people seem to have licenses to annoy around here. I think I have one among the pile of other useless licenses on my desk.

[Palmə häl′ik]

License Schmi-cense.

Sell me some palms cheeeep dammit!

~Ray.

[Jeff Searle]

[el-blanco]

Matt,

I have to agree with Braden. License to sell stock is pretty useless imo, BUT I got it anyway. My experience in OC was they came by every 2-3 months to check for fire ants, and check for pesticide storage ( I used not pesticides). They simply set out ant traps with a piece of SPAM in them and come back in a week. I had no ants so no problems. The guy who came to my place always called ahead of time, and was cool. he loved all the tropical stuff.

I think these counties have bigger problems than worrying about backyard growers.

I hope all is well!

Jeff (Dana Point)

[MattyB]

Go od to hear from you jeff (not searle)

[MattyB]

I got a response back from an email I shot off to CDFA. I'll post it below for the record, if anyone's interested.

  Quote

Hi Matt,

Section 6741 of the Food and Agricultural Code allows for the issuance of a Fee Exempt License under specific conditions. An inspector from your local county agricultural commissioners office would help you to determine if you would qualify for this license, and what other laws or regulations you might need to be aware of.

Based on your area code, it sounds like you are located in San Diego County. Their contact information can be found here: http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/awm/contacts.html. If you are currently, or intend to be, producing or selling plants in a different county, the contact information for the agricultural commissioners office can be found at the appropriate link on this page: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/exec/county/county_contacts.html.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Thank you,

Joshua Kress

Senior Environmental Scientist

Nursery Services Program

CA Department of Food & Agriculture

(916) 654-0435

joshua.kress@cdfa.ca.gov

[tropicalb]

So I said pretty much the same thing in my post #5 and you cleverly copy an email sent to you with the same information in post #13 (with links that don't work)..I see how it is.

[paulgila]

boring!

[Palmə häl′ik]

FREE PALM GIVE A AWAYS AT JEFF SEARLES RANCH...

<ur fixin' to get some pms>

<buy one get one britches>

<say it>

[Palmə häl′ik]

the funky drum ah drumin'

[MattyB]

ahhh hell Burt! you got me

[Jeff Searle]

  On 1/6/2012 at 10:16 PM, Palmə häl′ik said:

FREE PALM GIVE A AWAYS AT JEFF SEARLES RANCH...

<ur fixin' to get some pms>

<buy one get one britches>

<say it>

Hey why not? But for you, I'll give you the job of cleaning up when the crowd all leaves.

[Palmə häl′ik]

that can't be all that bad right so long as no dungs involved

or does 'cleanin up' mean I getta keep what's left