<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="6-223" title_number="6" title_name="Commercial Feed and Fertilizer and Agricultural Liming Materials" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Maryland Commercial Fertilizer Law">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except for enforcement provided under § 8–803.5(g) of this article, the Department has the exclusive authority to establish standards regulating fertilizer and its application to turf.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A local government entity may not adopt laws, regulations, rules, ordinances, or standards regulating fertilizer and its application to turf.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not exempt a person from complying with any provision of, or any regulation adopted in accordance with, the Environment Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
