Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 2 - Agriculture and Commerce › Part 1 - Rules of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce › Subpart 3 - Bureau of Plant Industry › Chapter 01 - Plant Diseases, Insects and Weeds › Terms › Section 2-1-3-01-103

Current through June 25, 2024
The Bureau of Plant Industry, Mississippi Department of
						Agriculture and Commerce, under provisions of
Miss. Code Ann
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						§§
											69-25-1 to
						69-25-47, and more especially
Miss. Code Ann
. §
											69-25-1 and §
											69-25-7, does declare the
						following words or terms to have the following meaning as used in this
						chapter:
1.
Balled and
					 burlapped stock
- means that nursery stock which has been removed
					 from the growing site with a ball of soil, containing the root system left
					 intact and encased in burlap or other similar material to hold the soil in
					 place.
2.
Bare-root
					 stock
- means that nursery stock which has been removed from the
					 growing site with the root system free of soil.
3.
Collector of native
					 plants
- means any person collecting native wild plants or plants
					 not nursery grown for the purpose of resale.
4.
Container stock
-
					 means that nursery stock which has been placed in a metal, clay, plastic or
					 other rigid container, in soil or other potting mixture capable of sustaining
					 normal plant growth remaining intact when removed from said
					 container.
5.
Nursery
- means any grounds or premises on or in which
					 nursery stock is propagated, grown, or procured for resale and held for sale
					 throughout the year.
6.
Nursery agent or salesman
- means any person who
					 solicits, takes orders, or sells nursery stock in this state for a nurseryman,
					 nursery dealer or grower of nursery stock, but not on the premises or place of
					 business.
7.
Nursery
					 dealer
- means any person, firm partnership, association,
					 corporation, or company other than a nurseryman who buys or collects nursery
					 stock for the purpose of reselling or reshipping or otherwise dealing in
					 nursery stock on a seasonal basis (usually three of four months each season),
					 independently of the control of any nurseryman or nursery - e.g., chain stores,
					 department stores, grocery stores, etc.
8.
Nurseryman
-
					 means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or company,
					 owning, leasing, managing or in charge of a nursery.
9.
Nursery stock
-
					 means all plants commonly known as nursery stock, whether field grown,
					 greenhouse grown, or collected native plants, consisting of palms and woody
					 perennial, trees, shrubs, seedlings, vines, roses, strawberry, blackberry and
					 other brambles, budwood, cuttings, grafts, scions, bulbs, corms, rhizomes, or
					 roots thereof; also other such plants and plant products grown or collected or
					 kept for propagation, sale or distribution; excepting field, vegetable and
					 flower seeds, cut flowers, cut ferns, cut foliage and other plant material not
					 intended for propagation and when apparently free from injurious insect pests
					 and plant diseases.
10.
Packaged stock
- means bare-root nursery stock either
					 in bundles or as single plant with the roots in peat, wood shavings, or other
					 moisture retaining material, not toxic to the plants, encased in plastic film
					 or other material designed to retard evaporation and hold the
					 moisture-retaining material in place.
11.
Place of
					 business
- means each separate nursery, store, stand, sales
					 ground, lot, or any location or vehicle from which nursery stock is being sold,
					 offered for sale, or distributed.
Miss. Code
						Ann. §
												69-25-7.