California Code of Regulations
Title 3 - Food and Agriculture
Division 4 - Plant Industry
Chapter 3 - Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Subchapter 4 - Plant Quarantine
Article 4 - Interior Quarantine (Regulations)
Section 3419 - Date Palm Disease Interior Quarantine (Quarantine Regulation 24)
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. A form of the fungus, Fusarium oxysporum, which initiates a serious disease in Canary Island date palm, Phoenix canariensis, and clump palm, P. reclinata. Seedlings of the date palm, P. dactylifera, are killed when injected with, or planted in soil infested with, the pathogen. There is reasonable cause to presume that this fungus isolate will be pathogenic to mature date palms, P. dactylifera, and other palms of the genus Phoenix.
(b) Quarantine Area. The quarantine area shall be all of California except the protected area. The protected area is:
(c) Commodities Covered and Articles Covered.
(d) Restrictions. The commodities covered are prohibited movement into the protected area, except that trimming or pruning tools will be allowed movement into the protected area when certified by a plant quarantine officer as being sterilized in an approved manner. The movement of the commodities and articles covered is not restricted in any way when such movement is entirely within the quarantine area or entirely within the protected area.
(e) Exceptions.
1. New section filed 7-3-80; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 80, No. 27). For prior history, see Register 58, No. 17.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 407, 5301, 5302, and 5322, of the Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 5301, 5302, and 5322 of the Food and Agricultural Code.
