Section 195.767

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

Chapter 195

Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 3 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  195.767.  Study of industrial hemp by institutions of higher education permitted, registration and permit required — refusal to issue, when. — 1.  An institution of higher education may, in collaboration with the department, engage in the study of the growth, cultivation, or marketing of industrial hemp and agricultural hemp seed.  Institutions for higher education shall obtain a registration for the growth of industrial hemp, or a permit for the growth and handling of agricultural hemp seed, from the department as set forth in sections 195.746 and 195.749.

  2.  The department shall refuse to issue an industrial hemp registration or agricultural hemp seed permit to any institution of higher education if approving such registration or permit would authorize the growth or cultivation of industrial hemp or agricultural hemp seed by institutions of higher education on over twenty acres of land statewide, notwithstanding the two thousand-acre limitation set forth in section 195.749.  Notwithstanding subsection 4 of section 195.749 to the contrary, the department may issue a registration or permit to an institution of higher education for the growth or cultivation of industrial hemp or agricultural hemp seed on a plot of land that is less than ten acres.

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(L. 2018 H.B. 2034)