Alabama Administrative Code
Title 80 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES
MARKETING
Chapter 80-10-6 - IMPORTED FIRE ANT QUARANTINE
Section 80-10-6-.02 - Definitions

(1) Certificate of Inspection. A document issued by the commissioner to allow the movement of regulated articles to any destination. Such certificate of inspection shall also be construed to imply complete compliance with restrictions noted in this quarantine.

(2) Commissioner. The Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama, or his authorized representatives.

(3) Compacted Soil. Soil attached to equipment which cannot be removed by brisk brushing and/or washing with water under normal city water pressure.

(4) Compliance Agreement. A written agreement between a person or concern engaged in growing, dealing in, or moving regulated articles and the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries, wherein the former agrees to comply with conditions specified in the agreement to prevent the dissemination of the imported fire ant.

(5) Exemptions. Conditions described herein which provide for modifications in conditions of movement of regulated articles from regulated areas under specified conditions.

(6) Infestations. The presence of the imported fire ant or the existence of circumstances that make it reasonable to believe that the imported fire ant is present.

(7) Mechanized Soil-Moving Equipment. Mechanized equipment used to move or transport soil, e.g., draglines, bulldozers, road scrapers, and dump trucks.

(8) Permit. A document issued by the commissioner to allow the movement of noncertified regulated articles to a specified destination for particular handling, utilization, or processing, or for treatment.

(9) Person. Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other legal entity or organization.

(10) Moved, Movement, Move. Shipped, deposited for transmission in the mail, offered for shipment received for transportation, carried, otherwise transported or moved, or allowed to be moved, by any means whatsoever, by any person, directly or indirectly.

(11) Pest. The insect known as the imported fire ant, two species, Solenopsis richteri Forel and Solenopsis invicta Buren in any stage of development.

(12) Regulated Area. Any county, parish, township, city or other civil division or part thereof in any state, country, or territory listed in this quarantine as being placed under quarantine, and such other areas as may become infested or deemed to present a hazard of spread of the imported fire ant.

(13) Soil. Soil shall be considered as that part of the upper layer of earth in which plants can grow.

Author: Charles H. Barnes