California Code of Regulations
Title 3 - Food and Agriculture
Division 4 - Plant Industry
Chapter 3 - Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Subchapter 4 - Plant Quarantine
Article 3 - Exterior Quarantine (Regulations)
Section 3251 - Chestnut Bark Disease and Oak Wilt Disease Exterior Quarantine (Quarantine Proclamation 2)
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
A quarantine is established against the following pests, their hosts, and possible carriers.
(a) Pests. Chestnut bark disease (Endothia parasitica), a fungus carried by birds, insects, water, wind, and shipment of nursery stock and unpeeled wood; and oak wilt disease (Ceratocystis fagacearum), a fungus carried under the bark of live or dead trees or parts of trees and also by oak bark beetles and sap beetles.
(b) Area Under Quarantine. All states and districts of the United States except the State of Arizona.
(c) Commodities Covered. All species and varieties of chestnut (Castanea spp.), chinquapin (Castanopsis spp.), oak (Quercus spp.), and tanbark oak (Lithocarpus densiflora) trees, plants, and parts thereof including grafts, cuttings, scions, nuts (except acorns), leaf mold, firewood and unpeeled logs are hereby declared to be hosts and possible carriers of the pests herein quarantined against.
(d) Restrictions.
1.
Repealer and new section filed 12-15-75; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 75, No. 51). For prior history, see Register 73, No.
28.
2. Amendment of subsections (a) and (c) filed 7-11-84; effective
thirtieth day thereafter (Register 84, No. 28).
3. Amendment of
subsection (d)(3) filed 3-3-94; operative 4-4-94 (Register 94, No. 9).
Note: Authority cited: Subarticle 2 Sections 407, 5301 and 5302, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Subarticle 2 Sections 5301 and 5302, Food and Agricultural Code.