New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 2 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 20 - QUARANTINES
Subchapter 7 - POSTENTRY QUARANTINE
Section 2:20-7.1 - Definitions
As used in this subchapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"APHIS" means the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Agriculture.
"Emergency action notification" means the United States Department of Agriculture form known as "Emergency Action Notification (PPQ Form 523)," and is a written notification issued by APHIS to a person holding a postentry quarantine agreement or permit, and/or who owns and/or is in possession of a site where plants or plant products are being grown under postentry quarantine, requiring the person to take action at the site under the direction of the Department.
"Exotic plant pest" means a plant pest not known to exist in the United States.
"Inspector" means any person officially designated by the Department, or an employee of APHIS, authorized to enforce the provisions of this subchapter.
"Notice of shipment" means the United States Department of Agriculture form known as "Notice of Shipment and Report of Inspection of Imported Plants To Be Grown Under Postentry Quarantine (PPQ Form 236)" issued by APHIS at a port of entry. This form serves to notify the Department of a release by APHIS from a port of entry of a kind and number of plants to a person holding a postentry quarantine permit for the purpose of growing such plants under postentry quarantine.
"Person" means an individual, firm, corporation, company, limited liability company, society, association, or other business.
"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.
"Plant pest" means any pest of plants, agricultural commodities, horticultural products, nursery stock, or non-cultivated plants. This includes, but is not limited to, insects, snails, nematodes, fungi, viruses, bacterium, microorganisms, mycoplasma-like organisms, weeds, plants or parasitic higher plants.
"Postentry quarantine" means a restriction on the growth and movement of plants imported to the United States of America pursuant to 7 C.F.R. § 319.37-7, as amended and supplemented, incorporated herein by reference, for the purpose of determining whether the plants are infested or infected with plant pests not discernible by port-of-entry inspection, for a period of six months after importation of Chrysanthemum spp., for a period of one year after importation of Dianthus spp., and for a period of two years after importation for all other plants.
"Postentry quarantine agreement" means the United States Department of Agriculture form known as "Agreement for Postentry Quarantine--State Screening Notice (PPQ Form 546)" issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. This form serves to notify the Department of the pendency of a person's application for a postentry quarantine permit and indicates the terms and location within a space of dimensions of a proposed postentry quarantine. A copy of this APHIS form may be obtained by writing to the Division of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, PO Box 330, Trenton, NJ 08625-0330, or telephoning (609) 292-5442.
"Postentry quarantine permit" means the United States Department of Agriculture form known as "Import Permit for Plants and Plant Products (PPQ Form 597)" issued by APHIS to a person approved by APHIS to receive plants subject to postentry quarantine.
"Site" means premises owned, rented, or otherwise in possession of a person who entered into a postentry quarantine agreement, specified in the postentry quarantine agreement as the actual location where plants subject to postentry quarantine will be grown.
