Article 3. Exemptions of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 4. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 3.

A person is not required to pay any license fee if all of the following facts exist:
  (a) The person's sales of plants amount to less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) within any one fiscal year.
  (b) The person has reported to the commissioner his or her intention to make those sales.
  (c) All plants which are sold by the person are of his or her own production, and are sold for planting within the county in which the plants were grown.

Any person that sells seeds and does not sell or ship any other kinds of nursery stock is exempt from the license requirements of this chapter.

Any retail florist or other person that sells plants at retail for indoor decorative purposes only is exempt as to such plants from the license requirements of this chapter.

Any person that sells cut Christmas trees is exempt from the license requirements of this chapter.