Agricultural Producer Security Council members, expenses for inspection and certification of grain, the American Society for Testing and Materials, service of process for the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, eliminating a reporting requirement for local ordinances relating to pesticides, and making an appropriation (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection)

In addition, this bill allows service of process from DATCP to be made by registered mail to the address that the party provided to DATCP or the Department of Financial Institutions, which is the department responsible for filing business organization documents. Under current law, service may be made by registered mail to the address that the party provided to DATCP or the secretary of state.

The bill also updates the name of the American Society for Testing and Materials to ASTM International. Under current law, standards set by that organization are used in relation to designating certain fuels as diesel-replacement and gas-replacement renewable fuels, to offering fuel pump tax credits for certain renewable fuels, to inspecting gasoline and other petroleum products, to advertising fuel as biodiesel, to testing cigarettes for compliance with fire safety performance standards, to registering laboratories to perform tests in connection with certain programs, and to determining certain cargo tank motor vehicle that must stop before crossing railroad tracks.

Finally, this bill eliminates the requirement under current law that a city, village, town, or county, no later than March 1, 1994, provide DATCP with a copy of any ordinance relating to pesticides that was enacted prior to December 29, 1993.

For further information, see the Notes provided by the Law Revision Committee of the Joint Legislative Council.