South Carolina Code of Regulations
Chapter 27 - CLEMSON UNIVERSITY STATE LIVESTOCK-POULTRY HEALTH COMMISSION
Article 5 - WITCHWEED QUARANTINE
Section 27-40 - Definitions
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 3, March 22, 2024
A. "Certificate" means a document issued or authorized to be issued by an inspector to allow the movement of regulated articles to any destination.
B. "Compliance agreement" means a written agreement between an individual or concern engaged in growing, dealing in, or moving regulated articles and the South Carolina Crop Pest Commission, wherein the former agrees to comply with conditions specified in the agreement to prevent the dissemination of witchweed.
C. "Exemptions" means conditions contained in a regulation supplemental hereto which provide for modifications in conditions of movement of regulated articles from regulated areas under specific conditions.
D. "Infestation" means the presence of the witchweed or the existence of circumstances that make it reasonable to believe that witchweed is present.
E. "Inspector" means any authorized employee of the South Carolina Crop Pest Commission or any other person authorized by the State Entomologist to enforce the provisions of the quarantine and regulations supplemental thereto.
F. "Mechanized cultivating equipment and mechanized soil-moving equipment" means mechanized equipment used for cultivating purposes--e.g., turning or disc plows, or to move or transport soil--e.g., draglines, bulldozers, road scrapers and dump trucks.
G. "Permit" means a document issued or authorized to be issued by an inspector to allow the movement of noncertified regulated articles to a specified destination for particular handling, utilization, or processing, or for treatment.
H. "Pest" means the parasitic plant known as Witchweed (Striga spp.) in any living stage.
I. "Regulated Articles" means those articles that require a certificate or permit year-round except as indicated.
J. "Regulated areas" means any civil division and parts of civil divisions in the State of South Carolina listed in a regulation supplemental hereto.
K. "Soil" means that part of the upper layer of earth in which plants can grow.
L. "Designated facility" means laboratories, gins, oil mills and processing plants as so specified by an inspector.
