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 3272 - Cornstalk Borers and Sugarcane Borer Exterior Quarantine
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. Southern cornstalk borer (Diatraea crambidoides); southwestern corn borer (Diatraea grandiosella); and sugarcane borer (Diatraea saccharalis), moths, in the family Pyralidae, which cause extensive damage to corn and sugarcane by boring in the stalks and tap roots.
(b) Area Under Quarantine. The entire States of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
(c) Articles and Commodities Covered. The following articles and commodities are hereby declared to be hosts and possible carriers of the pests herein quarantined against.
(d) Restrictions.
1. New
section filed 7-23-56; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 56, No.
14).
2. Amendment filed 3-28-74; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 74, No. 13).
3. Editorial correction (Register 76, No.
38).
4. Repealer and new section filed 3-29-83; effective thirtieth
day thereafter (Register 83, No. 14).
5. Amendment of section
heading and subsections (b), (d)(1), (d)(3) and (d)(4) filed 8-27-98; operative
9-26-98 (Register 98, No. 35).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 407, 5301 and 5302, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 5301 and 5302, Food and Agricultural Code.