South Carolina Code of Regulations
Chapter 27 - CLEMSON UNIVERSITY STATE LIVESTOCK-POULTRY HEALTH COMMISSION
Article 5A - TROPICAL SODA APPLE QUARANTINE
Section 27-56.1 - Definitions
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 3, March 22, 2024
A. "Certificate" means a document, electronic or otherwise, 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 benghal dayflower.
C. "Crop" means a cultivated plant or plants grown as food for sale or use in producing another food product.
D. "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.
E. "Farm Tool" means any device not motor-driven used in any process on lands purposed for production agriculture.
F. "Infested area" means any area designated by an inspector where benghal dayflower or the existence of circumstances that make it reasonable to believe that benghal dayflower is present.
G. "Inspector" means any authorized employee of the South Carolina Crop Pest Commission to enforce the provisions of the quarantine and regulations supplemental thereto.
H. "Mechanized equipment" means motor-driven equipment used for cultivating, planting, or harvesting purposes, including but not limited to turning, disc plows, no-till planters, tractors, combines and other harvesters, or to move or transport soil, including but not limited to draglines, bulldozers, road scrapers and dump trucks.
I. "Quarantined area" means the designated area set by the South Carolina Crop Pest Commission to isolate all known occurrences of the benghal dayflower in one geographical area.
J. "Regulated Articles" means those articles that require a certificate year-round except as indicated.
K. "Scientific Permit" means a document, electronic or otherwise, issued by the Director, or his designee, to allow the movement or use of regulated articles, not otherwise eligible for movement or use, for experimental or scientific purposes.
L. "Soil" means that part of the upper layer of earth in which plants can grow.
