Alabama Administrative Code
Title 80 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES
MARKETING
Chapter 80-10-4 - JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE
Section 80-10-4-.06 - Regulated Articles
Universal Citation: AL Admin Code R 80-10-4-.06
Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 11, August 30, 2024
(1) The following pest and articles shall be regulated by these rules:
(a) The Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica
Newm.) in any living stage of development;
(b) Soil, humus, compost, muck, peat, and
decomposed manure, separately or with other things;
(c) Plants with roots with soil attached,
except houseplants grown in the home and not for sale, greenhouse grown plants,
soil-free aquatic plants;
(d) Grass
sod;
(e) Plant crowns and roots for
propagation;
(f) True bulbs, corms,
rhizomes and tubers of ornamental plants;
(g) Used mechanized soil-moving
equipment;
(h) Any other products,
articles, or means of conveyance of any character whatsoever not covered by
paragraphs (1)(a) through (1)(g) of this rule, when it is determined by the
commissioner that they present a hazard of spread of the Japanese Beetle and
the person in possession thereof has been so notified.
(2) The following articles previously listed under paragraph (1) above as regulated shall be exempt from regulations, restrictions, and requirements so long as the conditions set out below are met and they also have not been exposed to infestation after cleaning or other handling.
(a) Soil, humus, compost, muck,
peat, and decomposed manure, if commercially prepared, packaged, and shipped in
original containers;
(b) True
bulbs, corms, rhizomes and tubers of ornamental plants if free of
soil;
(c) Plant crowns and roots
for propagation, if free of soil;
(d) Transplants, if substantially free of
soil;
(e) Used mechanized
soil-moving equipment, if cleaned of all loose, noncompacted soil;
(f) Soil samples for processing, testing or
analysis may be moved from the regulated area (without certificate or permit)
only to laboratories operated under compliance agreement or only in emergencies
under authorization from the commissioner.
The above exemptions always remain subject to applicable restrictions under other state quarantines.
Author: Charles H. Barnes
Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 2-25-1, et seq.
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