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 3257 - Sweet Potato Weevil Exterior Quarantine
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. Sweet potato weevil (Cylas formicarius elegantulus) which feeds on all parts of host plants, but primarily roots or tubers.
(b) Area Under Quarantine. The entire states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
(c) Articles and Commodities Covered. Sweet potato plants, vines, cuttings, draws, and slips, and sweet potato tubers, or so-called yams (Ipomoea batatas), and morning-glory plants (Ipomoea and Convolvulus spp.).
(d) Restrictions.
1.
Amendment filed 6-11-68; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 68, No.
22). For prior history see Register 67, No. 15.
2. Amendment filed
10-27-71; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 71, No.
44).
3. Amendment of subsection (b-1) filed 5-24-73; effective
thirtieth day thereafter (Register 73, No. 21).
4. Amendment of
subsection (b-1) filed 12-6-76; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register
76, No. 50).
5. Repealer and new section filed 3-29-83; effective
thirtieth day thereafter (Register 83, No. 14).
6. Amendment of
subsection (b) filed 7-11-84; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 84,
No. 28).
7. Amendment of section heading and subsection (d)(1), new
subsection (d)(2) and subsection renumbering, amendment of newly designated
subsections (d)(3) and (d)(4), and amendment of NOTE filed 12-12-94; operative
1-11-95 (Register 94, No. 50).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 407, 5301 and 5302, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 5301 and 5302, Food and Agricultural Code.