Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 40 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Chapter 40-4 - ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT INDUSTRY › Subject 40-4-26 - CITRUS REGULATIONS AND QUARANTINE › Rule 40-4-26-.02 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
(1) "Breach" means
				any circumstance that would allow free access by quarantined pests into a
				facility, container, package, or means of conveyance.
(2) "Budwood" means a portion of a stem or
				branch with vegetative buds used in propagation for budding or grafting; or
				more generally, any citrus cell, tissue, callus or cutting intended for use in
				the vegetative propagation of a citrus plant.
(3) "Certified budwood" or "certified citrus
				budwood" means budwood produced either in a foundation block, scion block or
				increase block in accordance with this Rules.
(4) "Georgia Citrus nursery" means a nursery
				in compliance with the requirements of these Rules.
(5) "Citrus" or "citrus plant" or "citrus
				tree" or "citrus nursery stock" means any plant in the genus of
Citrus,
				Eremocitrus, Microcitrus, Poncirus,
or
Fortunella
including any hybrid, grafted, or other plant having parentage in any of those
				genera; also,
Murraya exotica
and
Murraya
				paniculata
(orange jasmine, orange jessamine, or limonaria) including
				any plants, plant parts, budwood, rootstock, seeds, and any other parts
				thereof.
(6) "Clone" means an
				asexually reproduced cultivar; a group of genetically uniform plants that have
				been propagated vegetatively from a single original plant.
(7) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
				Agriculture, any employee of the Georgia Department of Agriculture, or other
				person authorized to act on the Department's behalf.
(8) "Department" means the Georgia Department
				of Agriculture.
(9) "Distribute"
				means to supply, sell, deliver, lease, provide, or otherwise transfer
				possession or ownership of a regulated or quarantined article.
(10) "Exclusion structure" means a structure
				that conforms to or exceeds the structural requirements of the USDA-APHIS-PPQ
				"Interstate Movement of Citrus Nursery Stock From Areas Quarantined For Citrus
				Canker, Citrus Greening, and/or Asian Citrus Psyllid" last revised on March 18,
				2018.
(11) "Foundation block" means
				a functional unit, regulated by the Department, consisting of one or more
				citrus trees that meet the foundation block tree requirements in these
				Rules.
(12) "Foundation Tree" means
				a citrus tree that is used to provide a source of budwood to nurserymen,
				primarily for establishing scion and increase trees.
(13) "Graft-Transmissible Pathogens" means
				disease agents spread by vegetative propagation including, but not limited to,
				budding, grafting, air-layering, and cuttings.
(14) "Horticulturally True-To-Type" means a
				plant which conforms to the description of a particular cultivar and which is
				from the same genetic line of descent as that cultivar.
(15) "Increase block" means a functional
				unit, regulated by the Department, consisting of one or more trees propagated
				using certified budwood from foundation block or scion block trees to rapidly
				multiply propagative material that is grown in accordance with these
				Rules.
(16) "Increase Trees" means
				specially designated nursery propagations made to rapidly multiply supplies of
				propagative material for citrus nursery tree production and meeting all the
				requirements of Rule
				40-4-26-.06.
(17) "Master Permit" means a document issued
				by the Commissioner to a state plant regulatory organization for the import of
				citrus plants and plant parts, excluding fruit.
(18) "Micropropagated" means the use of a
				plant part to initiate the tissue culture process.
(19) "Moved", "movement", or "move" means
				shipped, offered for shipment, received for transportation, transported,
				carried, or allowed to be moved, shipped, transported, or carried.
(20) "Non-rebuttable presumption" means a
				presumption that cannot be challenged with evidence.
(21) "Nursery" means any commercial location
				where nursery stock is grown, propagated, stored, maintained, or sold or any
				location from which nursery stock is distributed.
(22) "Person" means any association, company,
				corporation, firm, individual, joint stock company, partnership, society, or
				any other legal entity.
(23) "Pest"
				or "plant pest" means any living stage of any non-human organism that can
				directly or indirectly injure, cause damage to, or cause disease in a
				plant.
(24) "Produce" means to
				propagate a plant by any sexual or asexual means including, but not limited to,
				by seed, rooted cutting, budding, grafting, or tissue culture.
(25) "Propagative material" means any plant
				or part of a plant, including seed, or plant tissue intended for use in the
				propagation of citrus nursery stock or other plant that is identified as
				quarantined in these Rules.
(26)
				"Regulated article" means any citrus plant grown for the purpose of sale or
				distribution.
(27) "Rootstock"
				means a plant or plant part produced for use as the recipient understock in
				budding or grafting.
(28) "Scion
				tree" means a citrus tree grown from budwood taken from a registered foundation
				tree, maintained in a scion tree block in a facility of a Georgia Citrus
				Nursery, and registered with the Department as a source of budwood. Scion trees
				shall meet all the requirements for foundation or source trees.
(29) "Source tree" means a citrus tree that
				has met all requirements in these Rules for use as a source of budwood or
				propagative material, i.e., a scion tree, increase tree, or foundation
				tree.
(30) "State" means the
				District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, or any State,
				territory, or possession of the United States.
(31) "Test" means standardized laboratory,
				biological greenhouse, or field plot tests for certain graft-transmissible
				pathogens before trees are eligible for registration as source trees.
(32) "Tested Budwood" means budwood that does
				not originate from a foundation block, scion block or increase block but is
				eligible for use if the nursery is under a compliance agreement with the
				Department.
(33) "USDA-APHIS-PPQ"
				means United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health
				Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine.
O.C.G.A. §
											2-7-1 et. seq.