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 › Brown Garden Snail Regulation › Section 2-1-3-01-133

Current through June 25, 2024
In order to prevent the introduction and spread within
						the state of Mississippi of the destructive plant eating brown garden snail
Helix aspersa
Muller which can
						seriously affect ornamental and various other types of nursery stock, as well
						as many other plants, and as it is not known to occur in the state of
						Mississippi, and in order to eradicate the brown garden snail were it to be
						introduced, the Bureau of Plant Industry, Mississippi Department of Agriculture
						and Commerce under the provisions of
Miss. Code Ann.
§69-
						25-7, §
											69-25-9,
						§
											69-25-17,
						§
											69-25-19,
						§
											69-25-23,
						§
											69-25-25,
						and §
											69-25-35,
						does declare and give public notice thereof that the movement of live forms of
						this pest into or within the state of Mississippi in any stage of development
						is hereby prohibited. The following paragraphs apply to the movement of the
						brown garden snail:
1.
Pest
- Brown Garden Snail
Helix
aspersa
Muller
2.
Quarantined Area
-
California The entire state and other states or
						territories hereinafter which may be found to be infested.
3.
Regulated
					 Articles
- Ornamentals, nursery stock, or any other plants, soil,
					 sand, peat, or other articles which may be responsible for movement of the
					 brown garden snail.
4.
Conditions Governing Shipment
-
a. Regulated articles from the quarantined
					 area will be prohibited entry into the State of Mississippi, unless each
					 shipment is accompanied by a certificate issued by and bearing the signature of
					 the quarantine official of the state where shipment originated, certifying that
					 it has been determined by competent, official survey that the regulated
					 articles contained in the shipment were inspected and found to be free of the
					 brown garden snail and that, further, the pest is not known to exist in the
					 nursery or site from which the shipment or regulated articles
					 originated.
b. Each shipment of
					 nursery stock from an infested nursery or other regulated articles from an
					 infested site must be accompanied by a standard Phytosanitary Export
					 Certificate issued by the plant quarantine official of the state of origin
					 where the shipment originated certifying that the shipment has been fumigated
					 in a gas tight chamber with methyl bromide at a rate of 2 ½ pounds per
					 1,000 cubic feet at 70° F. or above for 2 hours, or with HCN at a rate of
					 25cc per 100 cubic feet for 1 hour at 50° F. to 85° F.
c. A copy of the Phytosanitary Export
					 Certificate must accompany the shipment with the usual state of origin nursery
					 tag or certificate with one copy of the Phytosanitary Export Certificate being
					 mailed to the State Entomologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, P.O. Box 5207,
					 Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762.