ARTICLE 4. Registration

Heading of Article 4 amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 717, Sec. 4.

§§ 12811–12840 · 33 sections

§ 12811 Every manufacturer of, importer of, or dealer in any pesticide, except a person that sells any raw material to a manufacturer of any pesticide or a dealer or…
§ 12811.2 (a) On or before May 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, until May 2, 2028, the department shall annually report the average processing times to review and…
§ 12811.5 The director may rely on any evaluations of previously submitted data to determine whether to accept an application for registration of a new pesticide…
§ 12812 (a) The director shall establish, by regulation, fees for the department’s registration program, as established pursuant to this division. The fees shall…
§ 12814 Any county, state, or federal officer or employee who sells any pesticide at cost is not required to pay any fee that is imposed by this chapter.
§ 12815 If a manufacturer, importer, or dealer in pesticides that applies for registration of pesticides has complied with this chapter and the regulations that are…
§ 12816 If the director finds that registration cannot be permitted due to noncompliance with this chapter or the regulations which are adopted pursuant to it, he or…
§ 12817 Every registration expires on December 31st of each year except when renewal is applied for within one month thereafter in the manner which is provided for…
§ 12818 If renewal is not applied for within one calendar month after the expiration of a registration, a penalty as prescribed by the director pursuant to Section…
§ 12819 A penalty shall not be collected if the person that makes application for renewal of registration makes an affidavit that no business was done during the…
§ 12820 The payment of any renewal fee or penalty is not a bar to any prosecution for doing business without proper registry.
§ 12821 Each applicant for a certificate of registration shall also file a statement of every brand, trademark, and kind of pesticide that the applicant intends to…
§ 12822 A supplemental application for registration of any additional pesticide may be submitted at any time without payment of the penalty required by Section 12818.
§ 12823 A change in the name or percentage, or both, of an inert ingredient is not a change in composition of the pesticide that requires a new registration unless the…
§ 12824 (a) The director shall endeavor to eliminate from use in the state any pesticide that endangers the agricultural or nonagricultural environment, is not…
§ 12824.5 (a) (1) On or before July 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, until July 2, 2029, the department shall annually identify and initiate the reevaluation of…
§ 12825 (a) Pursuant to Section 12824, the director, after a hearing, may cancel the registration of, or refuse to register, a pesticide if any of the following…
§ 12825.5 (a) If, during the registration process or at any time after the registration of a pesticide, the registrant has factual or scientific evidence of any adverse…
§ 12826 If the director has reason to believe that any of the conditions stated in Section 12825 are applicable to any registered pesticide and that the use or…
§ 12827 The director may cancel a certificate of registration, or, refuse to issue certification to any manufacturer, importer, or dealer in any pesticide that…
§ 12827.5 Whenever the director cancels the registration of, or refuses to register, any pesticide currently registered by the United States Environmental Protection…
§ 12828 Action by the director pursuant to Sections 12824, 12825, 12826, or 12827 is not a condition precedent to the institution of any action to prosecute a…
§ 12828.5 (a) A registrant at any time may request that the registration of any of its pesticides be voluntarily canceled. The request shall be in writing and shall…
§ 12829 If a person has a research authorization for a pesticide issued pursuant to Section 6260 of Title 3 of the California Code of Regulations for the purpose of…
§ 12832 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, alfalfa and all vegetable crops, when grown for seed production, with the exception of corn, beans,…
§ 12833 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the director may issue a certificate of emergency registration for a pesticide if all of the following…
§ 12836 (a) The director, by January 1, 1999, shall implement a program for the expedited registration of or for the expedited amendment of the registration of any…
§ 12836.5 The director shall accept applications for registration of pesticide products containing a new active ingredient concurrently with the application to the…
§ 12836.6 The director shall, with the assistance of the Legislative Analyst, conduct a study to consider more carefully the consequences of data-sharing agreements…
§ 12837 (a) The director may waive the submission or review, or both, of efficacy data developed by a registrant as a prerequisite for registration for any…
§ 12838 (a) On or before July 1, 2018, the department shall issue a determination with respect to its reevaluation of neonicotinoids. (b) (1) Within two years after…
§ 12839 (a) On and after July 1, 2027, the department shall meet the following timelines to review and evaluate, and issue final decisions on, applications to register…
§ 12840 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, when the department hires staff due to the mill increases described in Section 12841 and registration fee…