Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Part XV - Plant Protection and Quarantine
Chapter 1 - Crop Pests and Diseases
Subchapter C - Sweet Potato Weevil Quarantine
Section XV-137 - Issuance and Use of Certificate Permits, Certificate Permit Tags, and Fumigation Certificates for the Movement of Regulated Material
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code XV-137
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. From Sweetpotato Weevil-Free Designations
1. Green certificate
permit tags will, upon request to the department, be issued to any person whose
growing, packing and storage facilities are designated by the department as
sweetpotato weevil-free and who meet the following conditions.
a. The person has a valid sweet potato
dealer's permit as required by these regulations.
b. The properties or premises of the person,
where regulated materials are grown or stored, have been trapped or surveyed
for sweetpotato weevil during the growing season in a manner approved by the
department and have been found by the department to be free from sweetpotato
weevil.
2. Certificate
permits authorizing the movement of regulated material from sweetpotato
weevil-free areas or properties or premises to points within and outside of
Louisiana will be issued by the department under the following conditions.
a. The person moving the regulated material
has a valid sweet potato dealer's permit as required under these
regulations.
b. The person has
signed a compliance agreement with the department specifying the handling of
the regulated material to be moved and the proper use of the certificate
permits.
3. Green
certificate permit tags shall be attached to or placed within each container in
a load or shipment of sweet potatoes, if moved within Louisiana or to any other
state which may require such. Green certificate permit tags shall not be
reused.
4. Regulated material
moving into areas or properties or premises of Louisiana or into a portion of
any other state designated as sweetpotato weevil-infested, unless moving under
the provisions set forth in
§139. D.2 c, shall not be
moved back into any Louisiana sweetpotato weevil-free designated area and shall
lose its sweetpotato weevil-free status.
B. From Sweetpotato Weevil-infested Designations
1. Pink certificate permit tags
will, upon request to the department, be issued to any person whose growing,
packing and storage facilities are designated by the department as sweetpotato
weevil-infested and who possess a valid sweet potato dealer's permit as
required under the provisions of these regulations.
2. Certificate permits authorizing the
movement of regulated material from or within sweetpotato weevil-infested areas
or properties or premises will be issued by the department under the following
conditions.
a. The person has a valid sweet
potato dealer's permit as required under the provisions of these
regulations.
b. The person has
signed a compliance agreement with the department specifying the handling of
the regulated material to be moved and the proper use of the certificate
permits.
c. The regulated material
shall not be moved from a sweetpotato weevil infested designated area into a
sweetpotato weevil-free designated area, or to any state which may prohibit
entry of such regulated material, unless fumigated under the provisions set
forth in §138
d. If regulated
materials are moved, then the regulated materials shall be completely enclosed
in the vehicle body or covered tightly by tarpaulins or other means approved by
the department in advance of movement.
e. Certificate permits attesting to regulated
material fumigation and authorizing the movement of regulated material from
areas or properties or premises designated as sweetpotato weevil-infested will
be issued when such regulated material is inspected, found apparently free of
the sweetpotato weevil and fumigated under the provisions set forth in
§138 hereof.
3. Pink certificate permit tags shall be
attached to or placed within each container in a load or shipment of sweet
potatoes, if moved within Louisiana or to any other state which may require
such tags. Pink certificate permit tags shall not be reused.
C. No regulated material may be moved or shipped within or out of Louisiana unless accompanied by a valid certificate permit.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 3:1655 and R.S. 3:1732.
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