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. Walnut husk flies
(Rhagoletis suavis), (Rhagoletis juglandis),
and (Rhagoletis boycei); nut tree casebearers
(Acrobasis spp.); butternut curculio (Conotrachelus
juglandis); black walnut curculio (Conotrachelus
retentus); pecan weevil (Curculio caryae); and
hickory shuckworm (Laspeyresia caryana).
(b) Area Under Quarantine.
(1) On account of the walnut husk flies, nut
tree casebearers, and curculios, all states and districts of the United States,
except the State of Arizona.
(2) On
account of the pecan weevil and hickory shuckworm, the states of Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri,
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 quarantined against:
(1) Unhusked nuts of walnuts and butternuts
(Juglans spp.), and any such husks or hulls or fragments
thereof moved as such, or adhering to, or moved in connection with any article
or thing.
(2) Husks or hulls, and
fragments thereof, and nuts in the shell of pecan and hickory
(Carya spp.).
(3)
Boxes, sacks, and other containers, equipment, appliances, machinery and
vehicles used in connection with harvesting, hulling, dehydrating, shelling,
transporting, or storing of any unhusked nuts of walnut, butternut or hulls of
walnut, butternut, pecan and hickory.
(d) Restrictions.
(1) Certificate of Treatment Required.
Restricted articles originating in or shipped from the area under quarantine
shall be refused admittance into the State of California unless each lot or
shipment is accompanied by a certificate issued by an authorized representative
of the Department of Agriculture in the state of origin of the article or
commodity evidencing treatment for the pests quarantined against approved by
the director and under official supervision of an authorized representative of
the Department of Agriculture in the state of origin prior to arrival in this
state. The certificate must show kind and amount of articles covered, except
that in the case of small noncommercial quantities of unhusked nuts of walnut
and butternut transported via mail, express or as personal belongings, the
director may permit the removal and destruction of husks or hulls, or permit
treatment of the lot, under his supervision, at the risk and expense of the
owner or receiver, after which the lot may be released.
(2) No restrictions are placed by this
regulation on the movement of nuts in the shell of walnut and butternut from
which all husks or hulls have been completely removed, or on the movement of
extracted nut meats of walnut, butternut, pecan, and
hickory.
1.
Amendment filed 7-28-77 as organizational and procedural; effective upon filing
(Register 77, No. 31). For prior history, see Register 72, No.
24.
2. Repealer and new section filed 3-29-83; effective thirtieth
day thereafter (Register 83, No. 14).
3. Amendment filed 3-7-84;
effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 84, No. 10).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
407,
5301
and
5302,
Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections
5301
and
5302,
Food and Agricultural Code.
