Florida Administrative Code › 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › 5B - Division of Plant Industry › Chapter 5B-52 - PESTS OF COTTON › Section 5B-52.001 - Definitions and Purpose

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) For the purpose
				of this rule chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) Agent. Any person selling or distributing
				cotton or other regulated articles under the partial or full control of a
				commercial cotton grower.
(b)
				Authorized representative. Any designated employee, inspector, or collaborator
				of the division or the United States Department of Agriculture.
(c) Boll weevil. The insect known as boll
				weevil,
Anthonomus grandis
(Bohman), is a Plant pest of
				cotton, classified in the order Coleoptera, family Curculionidae, and all of
				its life stages.
(d) Boll weevil
				certificate. An official document issued or approved by the Department
				stipulating compliance with the requirements of this rule.
(e) Commercial cotton grower. A person who is
				engaged in and has an economic risk in the business of producing, or causing to
				be produced, cotton for market.
(f)
				Cotton. All members of the genus Gossypium in the family Malvaceae, including
				any parts thereof.
(g) Department.
				The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
(h) Division. The Division of Plant
				Industry.
(i) Eradication zone. A
				geographical area designated by the department for the purpose of eradicating
				boll weevil.
(j) Exposed. Subject
				to Plant pests of cotton because of location to or contact with Plant pests of
				cotton.
(k) Foundation. A nonprofit
				organization comprised of Florida cotton growers known as the Boll Weevil
				Eradication Foundation of Florida, Inc. (BWEFF) which was established to
				provide guidance and assist in policy decisions during an eradication
				program.
(l) Infested. Actually
				harboring Plant pests of cotton.
(m) Interstate movement. Movement from
				Florida to another state or from another state to Florida.
(n) Intrastate movement. Movement within the
				state of Florida.
(o) Kenaf. The
				plant known as African Hibiscus,
Hibiscus cannabinus
and
				including any parts thereof.
(p)
				Limited permit. An official document allowing the movement of specific
				regulated articles to a specific location for treatment, special handling, or
				utilization.
(q) Noncommercial or
				volunteer cotton. Cotton intended for purposes other than processing.
(r) Pink Bollworm. The insect known as pink
				bollworm,
Pectinophora gossypiella
(Saunders), is a Plant pest
				of cotton, classified in the order Lepidoptera, family Gelechiidae, and all of
				its life stages.
(s) Plant pest of
				cotton. Any living stage of any insects, mites, nematodes, slugs, snails,
				protozoa, or other invertebrate animals, bacteria, fungi, other parasitic
				plants or their reproductive parts, or viruses, or any organisms similar to or
				allied with any of the foregoing, including any genetically engineered
				organisms, or any infectious substances which can directly or indirectly injure
				or cause disease or damage in any Cotton or Kenaf plants or their plant
				parts.
(t) Regulated area. Florida
				or any portion thereof including any county, precinct, city, and other minor
				civil division designated by order of the Department as an area regulated due
				to the presence of Plant pests of cotton.
(u) Regulated articles. Any article including
				but not limited to cotton plants, Kenaf plants, seed cotton, gin trash, and
				equipment capable of transporting or harboring Plant pests of cotton.
(v) Shipment or shipments. The products to be
				transferred or moved, or the act or process of transferring or moving products
				from one point to another.
(w)
				Southeastern Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, Inc. A nonprofit organization
				comprised of cotton growers and state plant regulatory officials representing
				all cotton-growing states in the Southeastern United States. The Southeastern
				Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, Inc. was established to provide guidance to
				the state foundations and conduct the eradication of the Boll weevil throughout
				the cotton-growing areas of the Southeastern United States.
(x) Suppressive area. An area where an
				attempt is being made to contain and control Plant pests of
				cotton.