Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 40 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Chapter 40-4 - ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT INDUSTRY
Subject 40-4-26 - CITRUS REGULATIONS AND QUARANTINE
Rule 40-4-26-.02 - Definitions
Current through Rules and Regulations filed through September 23, 2024
(1) "Breach" means any circumstance that would allow free access by quarantined pests into a facility, container, package, or means of conveyance.
(2) "Budwood" means a portion of a stem or branch with vegetative buds used in propagation for budding or grafting; or more generally, any citrus cell, tissue, callus or cutting intended for use in the vegetative propagation of a citrus plant.
(3) "Certified budwood" or "certified citrus budwood" means budwood produced either in a foundation block, scion block or increase block in accordance with this Rules.
(4) "Georgia Citrus nursery" means a nursery in compliance with the requirements of these Rules.
(5) "Citrus" or "citrus plant" or "citrus tree" or "citrus nursery stock" means any plant in the genus of Citrus, Eremocitrus, Microcitrus, Poncirus, or Fortunella including any hybrid, grafted, or other plant having parentage in any of those genera; also, Murraya exotica and Murraya paniculata (orange jasmine, orange jessamine, or limonaria) including any plants, plant parts, budwood, rootstock, seeds, and any other parts thereof.
(6) "Clone" means an asexually reproduced cultivar; a group of genetically uniform plants that have been propagated vegetatively from a single original plant.
(7) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture, any employee of the Georgia Department of Agriculture, or other person authorized to act on the Department's behalf.
(8) "Department" means the Georgia Department of Agriculture.
(9) "Distribute" means to supply, sell, deliver, lease, provide, or otherwise transfer possession or ownership of a regulated or quarantined article.
(10) "Exclusion structure" means a structure that conforms to or exceeds the structural requirements of the USDA-APHIS-PPQ "Interstate Movement of Citrus Nursery Stock From Areas Quarantined For Citrus Canker, Citrus Greening, and/or Asian Citrus Psyllid" last revised on March 18, 2018.
(11) "Foundation block" means a functional unit, regulated by the Department, consisting of one or more citrus trees that meet the foundation block tree requirements in these Rules.
(12) "Foundation Tree" means a citrus tree that is used to provide a source of budwood to nurserymen, primarily for establishing scion and increase trees.
(13) "Graft-Transmissible Pathogens" means disease agents spread by vegetative propagation including, but not limited to, budding, grafting, air-layering, and cuttings.
(14) "Horticulturally True-To-Type" means a plant which conforms to the description of a particular cultivar and which is from the same genetic line of descent as that cultivar.
(15) "Increase block" means a functional unit, regulated by the Department, consisting of one or more trees propagated using certified budwood from foundation block or scion block trees to rapidly multiply propagative material that is grown in accordance with these Rules.
(16) "Increase Trees" means specially designated nursery propagations made to rapidly multiply supplies of propagative material for citrus nursery tree production and meeting all the requirements of Rule 40-4-26-.06.
(17) "Master Permit" means a document issued by the Commissioner to a state plant regulatory organization for the import of citrus plants and plant parts, excluding fruit.
(18) "Micropropagated" means the use of a plant part to initiate the tissue culture process.
(19) "Moved", "movement", or "move" means shipped, offered for shipment, received for transportation, transported, carried, or allowed to be moved, shipped, transported, or carried.
(20) "Non-rebuttable presumption" means a presumption that cannot be challenged with evidence.
(21) "Nursery" means any commercial location where nursery stock is grown, propagated, stored, maintained, or sold or any location from which nursery stock is distributed.
(22) "Person" means any association, company, corporation, firm, individual, joint stock company, partnership, society, or any other legal entity.
(23) "Pest" or "plant pest" means any living stage of any non-human organism that can directly or indirectly injure, cause damage to, or cause disease in a plant.
(24) "Produce" means to propagate a plant by any sexual or asexual means including, but not limited to, by seed, rooted cutting, budding, grafting, or tissue culture.
(25) "Propagative material" means any plant or part of a plant, including seed, or plant tissue intended for use in the propagation of citrus nursery stock or other plant that is identified as quarantined in these Rules.
(26) "Regulated article" means any citrus plant grown for the purpose of sale or distribution.
(27) "Rootstock" means a plant or plant part produced for use as the recipient understock in budding or grafting.
(28) "Scion tree" means a citrus tree grown from budwood taken from a registered foundation tree, maintained in a scion tree block in a facility of a Georgia Citrus Nursery, and registered with the Department as a source of budwood. Scion trees shall meet all the requirements for foundation or source trees.
(29) "Source tree" means a citrus tree that has met all requirements in these Rules for use as a source of budwood or propagative material, i.e., a scion tree, increase tree, or foundation tree.
(30) "State" means the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, or any State, territory, or possession of the United States.
(31) "Test" means standardized laboratory, biological greenhouse, or field plot tests for certain graft-transmissible pathogens before trees are eligible for registration as source trees.
(32) "Tested Budwood" means budwood that does not originate from a foundation block, scion block or increase block but is eligible for use if the nursery is under a compliance agreement with the Department.
(33) "USDA-APHIS-PPQ" means United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine.
O.C.G.A. § 2-7-1 et. seq.
