California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 4 - Plant Industry › Chapter 4 - Plant Pathology › Subchapter 6 - Plant Disease Control › Section 3701 - Citrus Nursery Stock Pest Cleanliness Program

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions apply to this section.
(a) "Applicant" means any person whose
				  application has been submitted to but not yet accepted by the
				  Department.
(b) "Authorized agent"
				  means any person who has been granted authority by the Department to test plant
				  and/or insect samples for the purposes of these regulations.
(c) "Breach" means any detectable opening of
				  a size approximately 0.3 square millimeters inadvertently made in an
				  insect-resistant structure.
(d)
				  "Citrus" means "citrous" and any plants of the genera Citrus, Fortunella,
				  Poncirus, and all hybrids having one or more of such as parents that could host
				  any disease for which testing is required in Section
				  3701.6.
(e) "Citrus Clonal Protection Program" (CCPP)
				  means the University of California at Riverside, Department of Plant Pathology
				  & Microbiology.
(f) "Citrus
				  Clonal Protection Program Tag Number" or "CCPP Tag Number" means the unique
				  identifying number assigned by CCPP to a tree.
(g) "Citrus tree" means a rooted citrus
				  plant.
(h) "Department" means the
				  California Department of Food and Agriculture.
(i) "Department registration number" means
				  the unique identifying number assigned by the Department to each registered
				  mother tree, mother line or seed tree.
(j) "Foundation stock" means propagative
				  materials collected or taken from trees maintained by the CCPP.
(k) "Infected" means that the presence of a
				  pathogen listed in these regulations was detected using the testing methods
				  specified in Section
				  3701.6.
(l) "Micro-propagation" means vegetatively
				  propagating plant material in vitro by means of nodal cuttings.
(m) "Official sample" means a sample
				  collected by the Department.
(n)
				  "Participant" means any person who agrees to fulfill the responsibilities of
				  the participant described in Section
				  3701.2, who has submitted an
				  application to the Department and whose application has been accepted by the
				  Department.
(o) "Propagative
				  materials" means seeds, cuttings, buds, budsticks, graft sticks or
				  micro-propagated materials taken from a citrus tree.
(p) "Registered" means the Department has
				  approved a citrus tree or propagative material that has been propagated,
				  planted, inspected, tested, and documented in accordance with the provisions of
				  these regulations.
(q) "Registered
				  increase tree" means a citrus tree, propagated using propagative materials from
				  CCPP, or a registered mother tree or mother line, for the purpose of rapidly
				  producing budwood, and that the Department has determined to be in compliance
				  with the inspection, testing and other requirements specified in these
				  regulations.
(r) "Registered mother
				  line" means in vitro material introduced into culture from nodal cuttings at a
				  particular time and from a single tree, to be used as a source of vegetative
				  propagating material; and that the Department has determined to be in
				  compliance with the inspection, testing and other requirements specified in
				  these regulations and to which the Department has assigned a tag bearing that
				  line's departmentally assigned registration number.
(s) "Registered mother tree" means a citrus
				  tree, used as a source of vegetative propagating material, that the Department
				  has determined to be in compliance with the inspection, testing and other
				  requirements specified in these regulations and to which the Department has
				  attached a tag bearing that tree's departmentally assigned registration
				  number.
(t) "Registered seed tree"
				  means a citrus tree, used as a source of seed only, that the Department has
				  determined to be in compliance with the inspection, testing and other
				  requirements specified in these regulations and to which the Department has
				  attached a tag bearing that tree's departmentally assigned registration
				  number.
(u) "Resting" means that
				  the Department has determined that additional samples will be collected and
				  tested.
(v) "Target vector" means
				  an insect vector of Tristeza or Huanglongbing.
(w) "Tested" means any test procedure using
				  plant material or its extracts to determine the presence or absence of a
				  disease or disease agent in or on the tested plant material. For the purposes
				  of these regulations, testing will be in accordance with the procedures adopted
				  by the Department for diseases and disease agents listed in Section
				  3701.6.
(x) "Topworking" means budding or grafting of
				  another variety on top of existing stock.
1. New
					 section filed 5-17-2010 as an emergency; operative 5-17-2010 (Register 2010,
					 No. 21). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 11-15-2010
					 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
2. Repealed by operation of Government Code section
					 11346.1(g)
					 (Register 2010, No. 48).
3. New section refiled 11-24-2010 as an
					 emergency; operative 11-24-2010 (Register 2010, No. 48). A Certificate of
					 Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-22-2011 or emergency language will
					 be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4. Repealed by
					 operation of Government Code section
					 11346.1(g)
					 (Register 2011, No. 15).
5. New section refiled 4-14-2011 as an
					 emergency; operative 4-14-2011 (Register 2011, No. 15). A Certificate of
					 Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 7-13-2011 or emergency language will
					 be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
6. Certificate
					 of Compliance as to 4-14-2011 order, including amendment of section heading and
					 section, transmitted to OAL 6-23-2011 and filed 7-5-2011 (Register 2011, No.
					 27).
7. Amendment of NOTE filed 2-20-2014; operative 4-1-2014
					 (Register 2014, No. 8).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						407,
						5801,
						5802
						and
						6946,
						Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections
						407,
						5801,
						5802,
						5803,
						6940
						and
						6941,
						Food and Agricultural Code.