New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 21 - AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING
Chapter 17 - PEST, DISEASE, AND WEED CONTROL
Part 36 - PECAN WEEVIL INTERIOR QUARANTINE
Section 21.17.36.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Board" means the board of regents of New Mexico state university or any individual whom authority to act in their stead has been or hereafter may be delegated.

B. "Certificate" means a document issued or authorized by the director with specific declarations related to the treatment, handling, transportation, condition or other processes related to regulated articles.

C. "Compliance agreement" means a document issued or authorized by the director that outlines/identifies specific requirements related to the transportation, treatment, handling or processes related to regulated articles.

D. "Department" means the New Mexico department of agriculture and authorized staff.

E. "Director" means director secretary of New Mexico department of agriculture.

F. "Infested" means reasonable expectation that regulated articles may harbor pecan weevil.

G. "Non-compliant" means regulated articles transported within New Mexico that are in violation of the requirements set forth in 21.17.36 NMAC.

H. "Originating" means produced within or having spent sufficient time in a quarantined area to be believed to be at risk of being infested.

I. "Pecan weevil" means any live developmental stage or synonym of curculio caryae (horn) including adult, pupae, larvae, or egg.

J. "Regulated article" means pecan weevil, plant tissue, equipment, trailers, or any other item capable of or having a reasonable expectation of harboring pecan weevil. Including in-shell pecans; sacks used in harvesting, storage, transporting or storing of in-shell pecans; harvesting equipment; live trees or parts thereof with soil attached; hulls, husks, and fragments of hull.