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SENATE BILL NO. 594 Offered January 11, 2006 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 3.1-106.4:1, relating to regulation of fertilizers. ---------- Patron-- Watkins ---------- Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 3.1-106.4:1 as follows:

§ 3.1-106.4:1. Preemption of local government regulation of fertilizer.

No locality shall regulate the registration, packaging, labeling, sale, storage, distribution, use, or application of fertilizers. In addition, no locality shall adopt or continue in effect any local ordinance relating to the registration, packaging, labeling, sale, storage, distribution, use, or application of fertilizers. Any local ordinance in violation of this section is void and unenforceable.