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. Burrowing nematode (Radopholus similis) and reniform
nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis), parasites of the roots of
citrus and many other plants.
(b)
Area Under Quarantine. Infested Area. The states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas,
and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(c) Articles and Commodities Covered. The
following articles and commodities are restricted entry into California when
arriving from the area under quarantine.
(1)
All earth (including sand and soil) and potting media.
(2) All plants and plant parts with roots
(including aerial roots).
(3) All
parts of plants produced below the ground or soil level.
(4) All plant cuttings for
propagation.
(5) Exemptions. The
following articles and commodities are exempt from the quarantine:
A. Industrial sand and clay.
B. Air plants (including certain orchids and
other plants produced epiphytically) if growing exclusively in or on soil-free
material such as osmunda fiber, tree fern trunk, or bark.
C. Aquatic plants (those species normally
growing in, on or under permanent water, either rooted in soil or
free-floating) if free from soil.
D. Plants secured by air-layering if roots
are established and enclosed in the original soil-free moss
wrappings.
E. Cuttings of ti
(Cordyline spp.) if free from roots and soil.
F. Dormant bulbs and corms for propagation,
if free from roots and soil, but not including taro corms for propagative
purposes.
G. All fleshy roots,
corms, tubers, and rhizomes for edible or medicinal purposes if washed or
otherwise freed of soil.
(d) Restrictions.
(1) Certification Requirements for
Commodities From Area Under Quarantine. All commodities covered moving from the
"Area Under Quarantine" listed in (b) above, whether moved direct from said
area or by diversion or reconsignment from any other point (without regard to
period of time held or grown at any intermediate point), are prohibited entry
unless each shipment or lot is accompanied by a certificate issued by the
authorized agricultural official of the state, district, or commonwealth where
produced establishing that all material contained in the lot or shipment meets
either A, B, or C below:
(A) It has been
determined through surveys, conducted at annual intervals (or during the
one-year period prior to shipment), that burrowing and reniform nematodes do
not exist on the property or premise or facility used to grow the nursery
stock, and that the seed or plant parts used for production of the plants were
determined by the certifying officer to be free from burrowing and reniform
nematodes (the survey methods shall have been approved by the California
Department of Food and Agriculture); or
(B) The plants or plant parts being shipped
to California were protected from burrowing and reniform nematode infestation
by all the following sanitation methods:
1.
Propagated from clean seed or from cuttings taken at least 12 inches above
ground level.
2. Planted in
sterilized soil or other suitable material prepared or treated to assure
freedom from burrowing and reniform nematode.
3. Retained in sterilized pots, containers,
or beds.
4. Placed on sterilized
benches or sterilized supports at least 18 inches from the ground or floor
level.
5. Area beneath benches or
supports holding plants treated at six-month intervals with a registered
nematocide or other material having nematocidal value and approved by the
origin state agricultural officials, except when smooth clean flooring of
concrete is present.
6. Plants and
growing media sampled using methods approved by the California Department of
Food and Agriculture and found free of burrowing and reniform
nematode.
7. Protected from
contamination by burrowing and reniform nematode until shipped,
or
(C) The shipment
consists of only unrooted plant cuttings provided that the cuttings were taken
from that portion of the plant which is growing at least 12 inches above ground
level and were protected from contamination until
shipped.
1.
Amendment filed 5-15-74 as an emergency; effective upon filing (Register 74,
No. 20). For prior history, see Register 73, No. 48.
2. Amendment
filed 7-15-74 as an emergency; effective upon filing. Certificate of Compliance
included (Register 74, No. 29).
3. Amendment filed 4-25-77;
effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 77, No. 18).
4.
Amendment of subsection (b)(1) filed 10-13-78; effective thirtieth day
thereafter (Register 78, No. 41).
5. Repealer and new section filed
3-29-83; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 83, No.
14).
6. Amendment of section heading and section filed 8-10-95;
operative 9-9-95 (Register 95, No. 32).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
407,
5301
and
5302,
Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections
5301
and
5302,
Food and Agricultural Code.
