New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 21 - AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING
Chapter 17 - PEST, DISEASE, AND WEED CONTROL
Part 42 - COTTON BOLL WEEVIL QUARANTINE
Section 21.17.42.12 - RESTRICTIONS
Universal Citation: 21 NM Admin Code 21.17.42.12
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. General: Movement of regulated articles is prohibited in the following cases:
(1) from or through a quarantined area
to an eradicated area, a functionally eradicated area, or a suppressed
area;
(2) from or through a
suppressed area to an eradicated area or a functionally eradicated
area;
(3) from or through a
functionally eradicated area to an eradicated area; or
(4) when the department determines the
movement may cause an increase in infestation of cotton boll weevil.
B. Exemptions: The following are exempt from the requirements of Subsection A:
(1) cotton seed and vehicles transporting the
seed;
(2) baled cotton, baled gin
motes and linters and vehicles transporting baled cotton and baled gin motes
and linter; and
(3) manufactured
cotton products.
C. Exceptions: The following are exceptions to the restrictions in Subsection A of this section:
(1) Cotton
harvesting equipment and other equipment associated with the production and
transport of cotton as well as used gin equipment, otherwise prohibited from
movement by this regulation, may be moved to or through a restricted area
provided the equipment is free of cotton products and cotton boll weevils in
any stage of development or treated in one of the following manners:
(a) physical removal of hostable material
including, but not limited to; removal by hand, high-pressure air cleaning; or
high pressure washing; or
(b)
fumigation of regulated articles as prescribed by the department.
(2) Cotton products and other
regulated articles, otherwise prohibited from movement by these rules, may be
transported to or through a restricted area provided that the producer,
transporter, ginner, or other responsible party entered into a compliance
agreement with the department and operates under its conditions.
(3) A USDA certificate of inspection (PPQ
Form 540, used to certify equipment free of pink bollworm) showing that cotton
harvesting equipment or other equipment associated with the production and
transport of cotton, as well as used gin equipment, has been cleaned or
fumigated is acceptable to the department as an exception to the restrictions
set forth in Subsection A of this section.
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