Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Part XIII - Seeds
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
Subchapter A - Definitions; Administrative Matters
Section XIII-101 - Definitions

A. The definitions in R.S. 3:1431 and the following definitions are applicable to this Part.

Coated Seed-any seed unit covered with any substance that changes the size, shape, or weight of the original seed. Seeds coated with ingredients such as, but not limited to, rhizobia, dyes, and pesticides that do not significantly change the size, shape, or weight of the original seed are excluded.

Declaration-a written statement of a grower, shipper, processor, dealer, or importer, given for any lot of seed the kind, variety, type, origin, or the use for which the seed is intended.

Hermetically Sealed Container -seed containers that meet the requirements of Part 201; §201 36c of the USDA Federal Seed Act Regulations. See 7 CFR 201.36c.

Hybrid Seed Corn (as applied to field corn, sweet corn, or popcorn)- the first generation seed of a cross produced by controlling the pollination, and by combining two, three, or four inbred lines, or by combining one inbred or a single cross with an open pollinated variety. Hybrid designations shall be treated as variety names.

LAES-Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station.

LDAF-Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.

Processing-cleaning, scarifying or blending to obtain uniform quality and other operations which would change the purity or germination of the seed and, therefore require retesting to determine the quality of the seed, but does not include operations such as packaging, labeling, blending together of uniform lots of the same kind or variety without cleaning, any of which would not require retesting to determine the quality of the seed.

Prohibited Noxious Weed Seed - the seeds of weeds that not only reproduce by seed, but also spread underground roots or stems, and which, when established, are highly destructive and difficult to control in the state by ordinary good cultural practices. These seeds are prohibited from being present in agricultural, vegetable, flower, tree, or shrub seed, or from being sold as a labeled seed kind.

Registered Seed Technologist -as applied in these regulations, means a seed technologist who has attained registered membership in the Society of Commercial Seed Technologists (society) through qualifying tests and experiences as required by the society.

Restricted Noxious Weed Seed-seeds of such weeds as are very objectionable in fields, lawns or gardens of this state, but can be controlled by good cultural practices.

Seed Gathered in Elevators-seed gathered in elevators or other establishments to be sold for planting purposes by farmers or other persons who are subject to the provisions of the Seed Law or the rules and regulations in this Part.

Seed Law - R.S. 3:1431 et seq.

Treated-given an application of a substance or subjected to a process designed to reduce, control or repel disease organisms, insects or other pests which attack seeds or seedlings growing therefrom.

B. The terms defined in R.S. 3:1431 and in this Section have the meaning herein given to them, except where a rule or regulation or the context expressly indicates otherwise.