Arizona Administrative Code › Title 3 - AGRICULTURE › Chapter 4 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE - PLANT SERVICES DIVISION › Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section R3-4-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions provided in A.R.S.
				  §§
									3-201,
				  3-231,
				  3-441, and
				  3-481, the following
				  terms apply to this Chapter: "Appliance" means any box, tray, container,
				  ladder, tent, vehicle, implement, or any article or thing that is or may be
				  used in growing, harvesting, handling, packing, or transporting any
				  agricultural commodity.
"Carrier" means any plant or thing that can transport or
				  harbor a plant pest.
"Certificate" means an original document issued by the
				  Department, the United States Department of Agriculture, or authorized officer
				  of the state of origin, stating name, quantity, and nature of the regulated
				  commodity, and the compliance information required by a specific
				  regulation.
"Commodity" means any plant, produce, soil, material, or
				  thing that may be subject to federal and state laws and rules.
"Container" means any box, crate, lug, chest, basket, carton,
				  barrel, keg, drum, can, sack, or other receptacle for a commodity.
"Cotton" means all parts of
Gossypium
spp.,
				  except manufactured cotton products.
"Equipment" means any vehicle, device, implement, ladder,
				  tent, or any article or thing that is or may be used in growing, harvesting,
				  handling, packing, or transporting any agricultural commodity.
"Gin trash" means organic waste or materials resulting from
				  ginning cotton.
"Host" means a plant on or in which a pest can live or
				  reproduce, or both.
"Husk" means the membranous outer envelope of many seeds and
				  fruit, such as an ear of corn or a nut.
"Infested" means
(i) any plant or other material on or in which a pest is
				  found, or
(ii) a geographical area where a pest is known to
				  occur.
"Inspector" means an employee of the Department or other
				  governmental agency who enforces any law or rule of the Department.
"Lot" means any one group of plants or things, whether or not
				  containerized that is set apart or is separate from any other group.
"Nursery" means real property or other premises on or
				  in which nursery stock is propagated, grown, or cultivated or from which source
				  nursery stock is offered for distribution or sale.
(A.R.S. §
									3-201(5)
				  )
"Permit" means an official document authorizing the movement
				  of a host plant and carrier.
"Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation,
				  association, governmental subdivision or unit of a governmental subdivision, a
				  public or private organization of any character, or another agency.
"Pests" includes all noxious weeds, insects,
				  diseases, mites, spiders, nematodes and other animal or plant organisms found
				  injurious, or likely to become injurious, to any domesticated, cultivated,
				  native or wild plant, or to the product of any such plant.
(A.R.S.
				  §
									3-201(7)
				  )
"Phytosanitary certificate" means a certificate issued by a
				  plant regulatory official for the purpose of certifying a commodity or
				  appliance as pest free.
"Plant" or "crop" includes every kind of vegetation,
				  wild or domesticated, and any part thereof, as well as seed, fruit or other
				  natural product of such vegetation.
(A.R.S. §
									3-201(8)
				  )
"Processed product" means any fruit, vegetable, or other food
				  product covered under the regulations in this part which has been preserved by
				  any recognized commercial process, including, but not limited to canning,
				  freezing, dehydrating, drying, the addition of chemical substances, or by
				  fermentation. (
				  7
				  CFR §
										52.2 )
"Sell" means to exchange for money or its equivalent
				  including to offer, expose, or possess a commodity for sale or to otherwise
				  exchange, barter, or trade.
"Soil" means any non-liquid combination of organic, or
				  organic and inorganic material in which plants can grow.
"Subcontainer" means any container being used within another
				  container.
"Transport" means moving an article from one point to
				  another.
"Treatment" means an application of a substance as either a
				  spray, mist, dust, granule, or fumigant; or a process in which a substance or
				  procedure is used to control or eradicate a plant pest.
"Vector" means an organism (usually an insect) that may carry
				  a pathogen from one host plant to another.
"Vehicle" means an automotive device, such as a car, bus,
				  truck, or private or recreational vehicle.