Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
A quarantine is established against the following pest,
its hosts and possible carriers.
(a)
Pest. Boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis.
(b) Area Under Quarantine. All states and
districts of the United States except the States of Arizona and North
Carolina.
(c) Articles and
Commodities Covered. The following are hereby declared to be hosts or possible
carriers of the pests herein quarantined against:
(1) Okra, Hibiscus
esculentus, and kenaf, Hibiscus cannabinus, all parts
of the plants including seeds and pods.
(2) Cotton and wild cotton plants of the
genera Gossypium and Thurberia and all parts
of such plants.
(3) Used bagging,
used cotton picker sacks, and other used containers and used wrappers for any
products from cotton plants.
(4)
Used cotton harvesting equipment, ginning and oil mill equipment, and other
cotton processing machinery, and other farm equipment which has been used in
connection with growing, harvesting, ginning, compressing, or processing raw
cotton or raw cotton products.
(d) Restrictions.
(1) Cotton Plants and Gin Trash Prohibited.
Cotton plants and parts thereof, as such or as packing or as contamination or
in association with any other product, article or thing, and gin trash, are
prohibited entry into California from the area under quarantine, except that
harvested seed cotton and products derived from seed cotton may be admitted as
hereinafter provided.
(2)
Certificates or Permits Required. Except as hereinafter exempted, articles and
commodities covered may be admitted into this state if accompanied by a
certificate of treatment or under permit issued by the director or the United
States Department of Agriculture.
(3) Approval of Treatment and Processing
Methods. Any method of treatment of processing to destroy boll weevil on the
basis of which a certificate or permit may be issued shall be approved and
prescribed by the director in administrative instructions issued supplemental
hereto or prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture.
(4) Exemptions. The following articles and
commodities are exempt from the certificate or permit requirements:
(A) Compressed baled cotton lint, linters,
and lint cleaner waste when such products have been given standard or
equivalent compression (22 pounds per cubic foot) and if free from surface
contaminants capable of harboring boll weevil.
(B) Samples of cotton lint and cotton linters
of the usual trade size, if free from cotton seed and cotton trash.
(C) Edible okra during the period of January
1 to March 15.
(5)
Certificates of Treatment. A treatment certificate issued by an authorized
Department of Agriculture representative at origin shall accompany each lot or
shipment unless exempt. The certificate shall affirm that the shipment or lot
accompanied thereby was cleaned, or otherwise treated to destroy boll weevil as
prescribed by the director. Each certificate shall also set forth the kind and
quantity of articles and commodities treated thereby, date and method of
treatment, dosage used, the initials and number of the railway car, or license
number of the truck in which shipped, and the names and addresses of the
consignee and consignor.
1.
Amendment filed 7-28-77 as organizational and procedural; effective upon filing
(Register 77, No. 31). For prior history, see Register 74, No.
12.
2. Repealer and new section filed 3-29-83; effective thirtieth
day thereafter (Register 83, No. 14).
3. Amendment of section
heading, subsection (b) and NOTE filed 1-19-96; operative 2-18-96 (Register 96,
No. 3).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
407,
5301
and
5302,
Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections
5301
and
5302,
Food and Agricultural Code.
