California Code of Regulations
Title 3 - Food and Agriculture
Division 4 - Plant Industry
Chapter 3 - Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Subchapter 2 - Nursery Stock
Article 8 - California Certified Seed Garlic
Section 3044.1 - Definitions

(a) "Garlic" means plantlets, plants, bulbs, or cloves or any part of Allium sativum and its cultivars.

(b) "Off-type" means different from the variety listed on the application for registration or certification or exhibiting symptoms of a genetic or non-transmissible disorder.

(c) "Foundation block" means a garlic planting established using garlic subjected to laboratory disease elimination procedures and propagated under the supervision of the Department for the production of foundation stock.

(d) "Foundation stock" means garlic produced in a foundation block.

(e) "Nursery increase block" means a garlic planting which has been established using foundation or registered stock for the production of registered stock.

(f) "Registered stock" means garlic produced in an nursery increase block.

(g) "Certified block" means a garlic planting which has been established using registered stock for the production of certified stock.

(h) "Certified stock" means garlic that has been produced in a certified block.

(i) "Certified seed garlic" means garlic certified in accordance with the provisions of this article.

(j) "Participant" means any person or legal entity whose application has been submitted to and accepted by the Department.

(k) "Farm" means an enterprise that includes all land, growing facilities, equipment, storage facilities, and labor that are utilized in a common effort to produce garlic and other Allium sp. crops.

(l) "Program" means the seed garlic certification program administered by the Department pursuant to these regulations.

(m) "Department" means the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, and its agents, employees, or representatives.