Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 4 - Agriculture › Chapter 34 - Plant Health And Quarantine › Article 4 - General Provisions › 11 AAC 34.400 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
The terms used in this chapter are construed to conform
					 insofar as possible with the terms used in the Federal Seed Act (7 U.S.C.
					 1551 et seq.) and the regulations issued
					 under that Act. Unless the context indicates otherwise, in this chapter
(1) "advertisement" means representation
				  other than on labels, disseminated in any manner or by any means relating to
				  seed within the scope of these regulations;
(2) "agricultural seeds" means the seeds of
				  all domesticated grasses and cereals, and of all legumes and other plants grown
				  as turf, cover crops, forage crops, fiber crops or field crops and mixtures of
				  the seeds;
(3) "appliance" means
				  box, tray, container, ladder, tent, vehicle, implement, or any other article
				  which is or may be used in connection with the planting, growing, harvesting,
				  handling, or transportation of an agricultural commodity;
(4) "bailee" means a person who, by warehouse
				  receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title, acknowledges possession of
				  goods and contracts to deliver them;
(5) "certified," as applied to bulblets,
				  tuber, or horticultural plants or to agricultural, vegetable, tree, shrub,
				  flower, or cereal grain seed, means inspected and labeled by and in accordance
				  with the standards and rules and regulations of the official certification
				  agency or in accordance with similar standards established by a similar
				  authority in another state, country, or territory;
(6) "certified seed potatoes" means potatoes
				  used for planting a crop, that have been officially certified as "foundation
				  seed" or "certified seed" by an authorized inspector, in a manner approved by
				  the director, or, in the case of seed imported into the state, meets the
				  certification standards of the Association of Official Seed Certifying
				  Agencies;
(7) "commercial
				  production" means products not grown exclusively for use or consumption by the
				  producer;
(8) "director" means the
				  director of the division of agriculture, Department of Natural Resources, or
				  the director's authorized agent;
(9) "flower seed" includes seed of herbaceous
				  plants grown for their blooms, ornamental foliage, or other ornamental parts
				  which is commonly sold under the name of flower seed in the state;
(10) "labeling" means all labels and other
				  written, printed, or graphic representations in any form whatsoever, whether
				  attached to, or accompanying and pertaining to any seed, whether in bulk or in
				  containers and includes invoices;
(11) "lot" means a definite quantity of seed
				  identified by a lot number or other mark, every portion of which is uniform
				  within the recognized tolerances for the factors which appear in the
				  labeling;
(12) "mixed agricultural
				  seeds" means any lot of seeds that contains five percent or more by weight of
				  each of two or more kinds of agricultural seeds;
(13) "noxious weed" means any species of
				  plants, either annual, biennial, or perennial, reproduced by seed, root,
				  underground stem, or bulblet, which when established is or may become
				  destructive and difficult to control by ordinary means of cultivation or other
				  farm practices; or seed of such weeds that is considered commercially
				  inseparable from agricultural or vegetable seed;
(14) "nursery stock" means any plant for
				  planting, propagation or ornamental use;
(15) "other crop seed" means that part of a
				  lot or sample of seed that consists of the seed of cereal grain and
				  agricultural and vegetable seeds other than those named on the label;
(16) "packer" means the person or firm
				  putting the seed into its final container in preparation for sale as
				  seed;
(17) "person" means a
				  individual, partnership, corporation, company, society, association, or
				  cooperative;
(18) "pest" means a
				  form of animal life, plant life, or infectious, transmissible, or contagious
				  disease of plants, that is or is liable to be dangerous or detrimental to the
				  agricultural industry of the state;
(19) "plant" means a whole or part of a
				  plant, tree, shrub, vine, fruit, vegetable, seed, bulb, stolon, tuber, corm,
				  pip, cutting, scion, bud, graft, or fruit pip, and includes an article made
				  from a plant;
(20) "pure seed,"
				  "germination," and other seed labeling and testing terms in common use are
				  defined as the terms are defined in the Rules for Seed Testing (Volume 6, #2,
				  1981) published by the Association of Official Seed Analysts, Stone Printing
				  Company, Lansing, Michigan, and in the Federal Seed Act (7 U.S.C.
				  1551 et seq.) and the regulations promulgated
				  under it (  7 C.F.R. 201  et seq.);
(21) "restricted noxious weed seed" means the
				  seed of weeds which are very objectionable in fields, lawns, and gardens of
				  this state, but which can be controlled by good cultural practices;
(22) "shipment" means an article or thing,
				  which may be, is being, or has been transported from one place to another
				  place;
(23) "tree and shrub seed"
				  means seed of woody plants commonly known and sold as tree and shrub seeds in
				  this state;
(24) "vegetable seeds"
				  means the seeds of all crops which are being grown or which may be grown in
				  gardens, privately or commercially, and which are generally known and sold
				  under the name of vegetable seeds; and
(25) "weed seed" means a restricted noxious
				  weed seed and any seed not included in the definition of agricultural seed when
				  it occurs incidentally in agricultural or vegetable seeds.
Authority:
AS
						03.05.010
AS 03.05.030
AS
						44.37.030