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 3274 - Cedar-Apple Rust Disease Exterior Quarantine (Quarantine Proclamation 28)
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. Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae (cedar-apple rust). This fungus pathogen causes galls to form on susceptible species of junipers and produces rust pustules on leaves, fruits and twigs of susceptible species of apples and crab apples.
(b) Area Under Quarantine. The State of Alaska and all states and districts east of and including the States of Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
(c) Articles and Commodities Covered. Viable cedar-apple galls. Living plants, trees, cuttings, branches and leaves of all species, hybrids and botanical and horticultural varieties of juniper (Juniperus spp.) and apple and crab apple (Malus spp.); except nonsusceptible junipers when properly labeled as to scientific name and apple and crab apple cuttings, scions, and trees when completely dormant and trees are bare-rooted.
Juniperus chinensis--Chinese Juniper
J. communis--common juniper, English juniper
J. horizontalis--creeping juniper
J. osteosperma--Utah juniper, desert juniper
J. pinchotii--redberry juniper
J. scopulorum--Rocky Mountain juniper, Western red cedar
J. silicicola--Southern red cedar
J. virginiana--Eastern red cedar
(d) Restrictions. Articles and commodities covered are prohibited entry into California from the area under quarantine unless they qualify under one of the conditions listed below:
OR
1. New
section filed 9-8-61; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 61, No.
18).
2. Amendment of subsections (a) and (b) filed 10-5-72;
effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 72, No. 41).
3.
Repealer and new section filed 3-29-83; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 83, No. 14).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 407, 5301, and 5302, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 5301 and 5302, Food and Agricultural Code.