AGRICULTURE
AND HORTICULTURE
CHAPTER 34
PESTICIDES AND CHEMIGATION
22-3414.Inspection. (1) For the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this act the director may enter on any public or private
premises at reasonable times in order to have access for the purpose
of observing the use and application of pesticides, inspecting records
that are required to be maintained by this act, chemigation equipment
and standards, chemical use for chemigation, spraying equipment, storage
facilities, disposal areas, investigating complaints of injury, inspection
and sampling of land and sampling pesticides being distributed, offered
for sale, applied or to be applied. The department shall conduct,
or make provision to conduct, at least two hundred fifty (250) annual
chemigation system inspections to assure the effectiveness of the
chemigation system from keeping chemicals out of surface and ground
water.
(2) Should
the director be denied access to any land where such access was sought
for the purposes set forth in this act, he may apply to any court
of competent jurisdiction for a search warrant authorizing access
to such land for said purposes. The court may, upon such application,
issue the search warrant for the purposes requested.