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 3044.3 - Participant Responsibilities
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
All participant responsibilities specified in this article shall be performed at the expense of the participant. Notifications as specified are required in order to assure that approval(s) may be granted before work is performed, to ensure that inspections may be made properly and in accordance with state laws governing worker health and safety for pesticide exposure, and to provide close working knowledge of filed operations. The participant shall be responsible for:
(a) Application for registration or certification of a planting.
(b) Selection of the planting location.
(c) Selection and trueness to variety of garlic in a planting.
(d) Propagation, record keeping, and pest freedom of all garlic subjected to laboratory disease elimination to be planted in a foundation block.
(e) Culture, maintenance, farming and sanitation practices of a planting.
(f) Maintaining the identity of all garlic entered in the program.
(g) Protecting garlic in possession from exposure to or damage from conditions and pests, including diseases, which could materially reduce the viability or productivity of the stock.
(h) Notifying the Department at least one week in advance of planting and replanting, propagation operations, harvest and storage location, and movement of stock during storage.
(i) Notifying the Department of the date of all pest control treatments in plantings for which inspections or other departmental activities are scheduled, the product(s) used, dosage(s) and any re-entry or worker safety requirements which apply. Such notification need not be made at times when inspections or other departmental activities are not scheduled to be performed.
(j) The proper use of certification seals and tags provided by the Department and for marking on each tag the participant's name, harvest date (month, year), variety and the assigned block number and other information for identification purposes specified by the Department.
(k) Maintaining production, tag use and sales records of the stock produced and/or sold. The tag use records shall be kept on an inventory sheet(s) supplied by the Department, unless otherwise specified by the Department in writing, and shall be submitted annually after the close of the season for sale or distribution of certified stocks.
(l) Compliance with the requirements of this article and with other lawful orders specified by the Department.
1.
Renumbering and amendment of former Section
3046 to Section
3044.3 filed 12-30-83; effective
thirtieth day thereafter (Register 84, No. 1).
2. Amendment of
section heading and repealer and new section filed 4-24-97; operative 5-24-97
(Register 97, No. 17).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 407 and 5823, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 5821 and 5822, Food and Agricultural Code.
