Authority of Board to adopt regulations

The Board may adopt regulations: 1. Governing: (i) methods of sampling; (ii) methods of inspection; (iii) methods of testing in the laboratory and in the field; (iv) the establishment of standards; (v) the establishment of code designations; and (vi) the establishment of tolerances for agricultural, vegetable, flower, tree and shrub, lawn and turf seeds, mixtures of such seeds, and screenings; 2. Providing a list of prohibited and restricted noxious-weed seeds; 3. Providing for the labeling of flower seeds by kind, variety, type, or performance characteristics as required by § 3.2-4008 ; 4. Providing a list of tree and shrub seeds subject to the seed purity and germination labeling requirements of subsection I of § 3.2-4008 ; 5. Providing for the registration of the pedigree of any hybrid; 6. Providing a list of those kinds of seed that may be sold only by variety name; 7. Establishing special labeling requirements, in addition to the requirements of § 3.2-4008 , for the sale or distribution of seeds produced from transgenetic plant material; 8. Providing a list of second generation hybrids that may be sold as a hybrid; 9. Providing a list of seeds specified as lawn and turf seeds; and 10. Establishing tolerances that recognize variations between analyses, tests, label statements, and subsequent analyses to be used in enforcement.