California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 4 - Plant Industry › Chapter 3 - Entomology and Plant Quarantine › Subchapter 4 - Plant Quarantine › Article 3 - Exterior Quarantine (Regulations) › Section 3251 - Chestnut Blight and Oak Wilt Disease Exterior Quarantine (Quarantine Proclamation 2)

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
A quarantine is established against the following pests,
						their hosts, and possible carriers.
(a) Pests. Chestnut blight,
Cryphonectria
(
Endothia
)
parasitica
, a fungus carried by birds, insects, water, wind,
					 and shipment of nursery stock and unpeeled wood; and oak wilt disease
Bretziella
(
Ceratocystis
)
fagacearum
, a fungus carried under the bark of live or dead
					 trees or parts of trees and also by oak bark beetles and sap beetles.
(b) Area Under Quarantine. All states and
					 districts of the United States except the State of Arizona.
(c) Commodities Covered. All species and
					 varieties of chestnut (
Castanea
spp.), chinquapin
					 (
Castanopsis
and
Chrysolepis
spp.), oak
					 (
Quercus
spp.), and tanbark oak (
Notholithocarpus
					 densiflorus
) trees, plants, and parts thereof including grafts,
					 cuttings, scions, nuts (except acorns), leaf mold, firewood and unpeeled logs
					 are hereby declared to be hosts and possible carriers of the pests herein
					 quarantined against.
(d)
					 Restrictions.
(1) Commodities Covered
					 Prohibited From Area Under Quarantine. Except as provided in paragraph (4)
					 hereof, all commodities covered shall be refused admittance into the State of
					 California from the area under quarantine unless each lot or shipment is
					 accompanied by an official certificate evidencing compliance with paragraph (2)
					 or (3) below.
(2) Commodities
					 Covered Produced in Western States Admitted Under Certificate of Origin. All
					 commodities covered produced in and shipped from that portion of the area under
					 quarantine west of the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico are
					 admissible into California, provided that each lot or shipment is accompanied
					 by an official certificate issued by, and bearing an original or facsimile
					 signature of, the authorized agricultural inspection official of the state in
					 which the commodities were grown or shipped, affirming that chestnut blight and
					 oak wilt disease are not known to occur in the state where grown, and also
					 setting forth the name of the state where produced and the kind and amount of
					 commodities covered by the certificate.
(3) Commodities Covered Admissible Under
					 Certificate of Treatment. Commodities covered may be shipped to California from
					 the area under quarantine subject to prior approval by the Director of the
					 method of treatment to be used. Except as provided in subsection (d)(2), each
					 shipment of a commodity covered must be accompanied by an official certificate
					 issued by, and bearing an original or facsimile signature of, the authorized
					 agricultural official of the state of origin indicating the method of
					 treatment, quantity of commodity covered, identification or license number of
					 carrier, and the names and addresses of the shipper and consignee.
(4) No Restrictions on Foreign Nuts. No
					 restrictions are placed by this quarantine upon the nuts of all species and
					 varieties of chestnut and chinquapin (
Castanea
spp. and
Castanopsis
spp.) grown in and imported from foreign countries
					 when reshipped into or arriving in this State in an unopened original
					 container.