Code of Massachusetts Regulations
330 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES
Title 330 CMR 9.00 - Plant Quarantines
Section 9.03 - Currant and Gooseberry Quarantine
Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(1) No person shall deliver within the Commonwealth from outside the Commonwealth any currant or gooseberry (Ribes spp.) plant, root, scion, seed or cutting unless a control area permit has been issued by the Department of Food and Agriculture.
(2) Control area permits will not be issued for any shipment with a destination in any of the following municipalities :
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Acton |
Duxbury |
Lee |
Plymouth |
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Alford |
East Bridgewater |
Lenox |
Plympton |
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Amesbury |
Easton |
Leverett |
Princeton |
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Andover |
Egremont |
Leyden |
Raynham |
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Ashburnham |
Erving |
Littleton |
Rochester |
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Ashby |
Essex |
Manchester |
Rowley |
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Ashfield |
Foxboro |
Mansfield |
Royalston |
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Athol |
Freetown |
Marshfield |
Salisbury |
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Ayer |
Gardner |
Medfield |
Sandisfield |
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Barre |
Georgetown |
Merrimac |
Sharon |
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Becket |
Gill |
Methuen |
Sheffield |
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Berkley |
Gloucester |
Middleboro |
Shelburne |
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Bernardston |
Gill |
Middlefield |
Shirley |
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Billerica |
Goshen |
Middleton |
Shutesbury |
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Blandford |
Granville |
Millis |
Southampton |
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Bolton |
Great Barrington |
Montague |
Stockbridge |
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Boxboro |
Greenfield |
Monterey |
Stoughton |
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Boxford |
Groton |
New Marlboro |
Stow |
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Bridgewater |
Grove land |
New Salem |
Sunderland |
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Buck land |
Halifax |
Newbury |
Taunton |
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Canton |
Hamilton |
Newburyport |
Templeton |
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Carlisle |
Hanover |
Norfolk |
Tewksbury |
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Carver |
Hanson |
North Andover |
Tolland |
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Charlemont |
Hardwick |
North Reading |
Topsfield |
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Chelmsford |
Harvard |
Northfield |
Towns end |
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Chester |
Haverhill |
Norton |
Tyngsboro |
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Chesterfield |
Hawley |
Norwell |
Tyringham |
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Colrain |
Heath |
Orange |
Walpole |
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Conway |
Hubbardston |
Otis |
Wareham |
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Cummingto n |
Huntington |
Pembroke |
Warwick |
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Deerfield |
Ipswich |
Pepperell |
Wendell |
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Dover |
Kingston |
Petersham |
Wenham |
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Dracut |
Lakeville |
Phillipston |
West Bridgewater |
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Dunstable |
Lancaster |
Plainfield |
West Newbury |
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Stockbridge |
Tolland |
Warwick |
Westminster |
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Stoughton |
Topsfield |
Wendell |
Whately |
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Stow |
Townsend |
Wenham |
Williamsburg |
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Sunderland |
Tyngsboro |
West Bridgewater |
Wilmington |
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Taunton |
Tyringham |
West Newbury |
Winchendon |
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Templeton |
Walpole |
Westford |
Worthington |
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Tewksbury |
Wareham |
Westhampton |
Wrentham |
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Westford |
Whately |
Winchendon |
Wrentham |
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Westhampton |
Williamsburg |
Worthington |
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Westminster |
Wilmington |
(3) If necessary, the Department of Agricultural Resources, in its sole discretion, shall amend this list following a review, which at a minimum shall occur every ten years. This review shall include, but not be limited to: consultation with the Department of Conservation and Recreation to determine whether the impact to significant stands of white pine (Pinus strobus) has changed; any mutations or other changes in the white pine blister rust fungus (Cronartium ribicola) that infects both currants and white pine; availability of rust-resistant varieties, cultivars, or hybrids of currants (Ribes spp.).
