New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 2 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 20 - QUARANTINES
Subchapter 10 - SPOTTED LANTERNFLY
Section 2:20-10.1 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Agent" means a representative of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture or the United States Department of Agriculture, or any individual under contract with the Department or USDA to apply pesticide treatments or otherwise.

"APHIS" means the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

"Checklist" or "Spotted Lanternfly Checklist" means a document prepared by the Department and is available at http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/divisions/pi/prog/spottedlanternfly.html.

"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Agriculture.

"Eradication" means the elimination or removal of a pest from a defined geographic area.

"Exposed" means a determination by an inspector to be at risk for spreading Spotted Lanternfly.

"Infestation" means the presence of Spotted Lanternfly in any life stage. "Inspector" means any person officially designated by the Department or APHIS, authorized to enforce the provisions of this subchapter.

"Move" means to ship, carry, transport, offer for shipment, receive for shipment, or allow to be transported by any means.

"Movement" means the act of shipping, carrying, transporting, offering for shipment, receiving for shipment, or allowing to be transported by any means.

"Notice of Infestation-Treatment Order" means an official written order issued by the Department specifying conditions found, actions the recipient shall carry out, and a specified time frame by which the order must be complied with, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 2:20-10.5.

"Person" means an individual, partnership, association, firm, corporation, limited liability corporation, State agency, municipality or other governmental unit or agency, or any other legal entity.

"Plant" means any part of a plant, tree, aquatic plant, plant product, shrub, vine fruit, rhizome, sod, vegetable, seed, bulb, stolon, tuber, corm, pip, cutting, scion, bud, graft, or fruit.

"Quarantined area" means any area designated as a quarantined area in accordance with N.J.A.C. 2:20-10.5.

"Regulated article" means any article listed under N.J.A.C. 2:20-10.3.

"Regulated fruit, regulated plant, regulated seed, regulated tree" means any fruit, plant, seed, or tree defined as a regulated article under N.J.A.C. 2:20-10.3.

"Secretary" means the Secretary of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture.

"Spotted Lanternfly" means Lycorma delicatula.

"Treatment Order" or "Order" means any Notice of Infestation-Treatment Order as set forth in N.J.A.C. 2:20-10.6.

"Tree of Heaven" means any life stage of the plant Ailanthus altissima.

"USDA" means the United States Department of Agriculture.