New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 21 - AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING
Chapter 17 - PEST, DISEASE, AND WEED CONTROL
Part 27 - JAPANESE BEETLE EXTERIOR QUARANTINE
Section 21.17.27.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. "Board" means the board of regents of New Mexico state university or any officer or employee to whom authority to act in their stead has been or hereafter may be delegated.
B. "Free of soil" individual soil "clump(s)" less than 1/2 inch in diameter.
C. "Department" means the New Mexico department of agriculture.
D. "Certificate" an authenticated document issued by the department of agriculture affirming compliance with quarantine restrictions affecting movements of regulated articles, indicating articles are believed to be free of the live quarantine pest.
E. "Infestation" means actually infested or infected with a pest or so exposed to infestation that it would be reasonable to believe that an infestation exists.
F. "Director" means the director of New Mexico department of agriculture.