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. Pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella, a moth, family
Gelechiidae, which in the laval stage feeds in cotton bolls.
(b) Area Under Quarantine. The entire State
of California.
(1) Infested Areas.
(A) Generally Infested Area. Inyo County and
all that part of California south of and including Los Angeles and San
Bernardino counties.
(B) Lightly
Infested Area. Fresno County, Kern County, Kings County, Madera County, Merced
County, San Benito County, and Tulare County.
(c) Articles and Commodities Covered.
(1) Okra (Hibiscus
esculentus) and kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus), all
parts of the plants including seeds and pods.
(2) Cotton and wild cotton of the genera
Gossypium and Thurberia, including all parts
of the plants.
(3) Seed
cotton.
(4) Cotton lint.
(5) Cotton linters.
(6) Cotton waste, all waste produced from the
processing of cotton at gins, cottonseed oil mills or textile mills in any form
or under any trade designation. (See also Gin Trash.)
(7) Gin trash, all the material produced
during the cleaning and ginning of seed cotton, bollies, or snapped cotton,
except the cotton lint, cottonseed and cotton waste.
(8) Cottonseed.
(9) Cottonseed hulls.
(10) Used bagging, used cotton-picker sacks,
and other used containers and wrappers for any products from cotton
plants.
(11) Used cotton harvesting
equipment, ginning and oil mill equipment, and other cotton processing
machinery, and other farm equipment which has been used in connection with
growing, harvesting, ginning, compressing, or processing raw cotton or raw
cotton products.
(12) Any other
products or articles, of any character whatsoever, determined by an inspector
to be infested with live pink bollworm or to present a hazard of the
introduction and spread of pink bollworm.
(d) Restrictions.
(1) Cotton Plants and General Trash
Prohibited. Cotton plants and parts thereof, such as packing or as
contamination or in association with any other products, article or thing, and
gin trash except for harvested seed cotton and producs derived from seed cotton
are prohibited movement from the infested areas, except that movement is
permitted from the lightly infested area into the generally infested
area.
(2) Treatment Certificates or
Permit Required. Except as hereinafter exempted, articles and commodities
covered shall not be transported or moved by any means from the infested areas
unless accompanied by a certificate of treatment for pink bollworm issued by
the county agricultural commissioner or a permit issued by the
director.
(3) Exemptions. The
following articles and commodities may be transported or moved from the
infested area without a certificate of treatment or permit under the conditions
set forth below:
(A) Compressed baled cotton
lint, linters, and lint cleaner waste when such products have been given
standard or equivalent compression (22 pounds per cubic foot or 352.3 kilograms
per cubic meter) and are free from surface contaminants capable of harboring
pink bollworm.
(B) Samples of
cotton lint and cotton linters of the usual trade size.
(C) Cottonseed from the lightly infested area
may move anywhere within California except to feed mills or persons producing
feed that contains whole cottonseed and such feed is or is likely to be shipped
out of state.
(D) Cottonseed from
the genrally infested area may move within the generally infested area except
to feed mills or persons producing feed that contains whole cottonseed and such
feed is or is likely to be shipped out of state.
(4) Fumigation Required for Mechanical
Picking Machines. Mechanical cotton picking machines shall not be moved from
the infested areas, or within the infested areas when moving from the generally
infested area to the lightly infested area, unless the commissioner determines
that the machines have been fumigated as prescribed by the director,
immediately prior to shipment, and issues a fumigation certificate.
(5) Certified Okra From the Infested Areas
Permitted Movement Within California. Okra grown in the invested areas may be
transported or moved within California from those areas when accompanied by a
certificate issued by the county agricultural commissioner at origin. No
movement is permitted from the generally infested into the lightly infested
area. A grower to be eligible to be issued such a certificate must:
(A) Designate property where the okra was
grown.
(B) Control property where
the okra was grown to the extent that on such property compliance can be
guaranteed as to planting and plow-up dates, or other cultural practices, that
may be required by the county agricultural commissioner.
(C) Control the packing of the okra so that
only okra three and a half inches (3 1/2"; 9.89 cm) or smaller will be
packed.
(D) Make certain a valid
certifcate is attached to each set of bills accompanying a shipment.
(E) Designate the name of the individual,
trucking concern, or other transportation concern that will transport the okra.
Only the grower or individuals or concerns so designated
will be permitted to use the certificate and transport the okra from the
infested areas.
(6) Assembly of Articles and Commodities for
Inspection. Persons intending to move any article or commodity covered from the
infested areas shall make application for inspection as far in advance as
possible, shall so handle such articles and commodities as to safeguard them
from infestation, and shall assemble them at such points and in such manner as
the commissioner, his deputy or inspector shall designate to facilitate
inspection.
1.
Amendment filed 12-10-76; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 76, No.
50). For prior history, see Register 74, No. 24.
2. Amendment of
subsection (e) filed 7-28-77 as organizational and procedural; effective upon
filing (Register 77, No. 31).
3. Repealer and new section filed
3-29-83; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 83, No. 14).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
407,
5301,
5302
and
5322,
Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections
5301,
5302
and
5322,
Food and Agricultural Code.