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 13 - Boll Weevil Containment/Maintenance Rule › Definitions › Section 2-1-3-13-101

Current through June 25, 2024
For the purpose of this Rule, the following definitions
						shall apply:
1. APHIS, United States
					 Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection
					 Service.
2. FSA, United States
					 Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency.
3. Assessment. The amount per acre to be
					 charged each cotton grower to finance, in whole or part, a boll weevil
					 suppression, pre-eradication, eradication or containment/maintenance program
					 within this state. Such assessments would be based on scientifically sound data
					 regarding the level of boll weevil infestation and the anticipated cost of
					 conducting the proposed program.
4.
					 Boll Weevil,
Anthonomus grandis
Boheman in any stage of
					 development.
5. Certified Cotton
					 Growers Organization. A cotton grower's organization certified by the Bureau of
					 Plant Industry for the purpose of entering into agreements with the state of
					 Mississippi, other states, federal agencies, and any other agency of
					 Mississippi or another state as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of
					 this Rule.
6. Bureau. The Bureau of
					 Plant Industry within the regulatory office of the Mississippi Department of
					 Agriculture and Commerce.
7.
					 Certificate. A document issued or authorized by the Commissioner indicating
					 that a regulated article is not contaminated with boll weevils. Such articles
					 may be moved to any destination.
8.
					 Commissioner. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce or his designated
					 representative.
9. Compliance
					 Agreement. A written agreement between the Mississippi Department of
					 Agriculture and Commerce and any person engaged in growing, dealing in, or
					 moving regulated articles where the latter agrees to comply with specified
					 provisions to prevent dissemination of the boll weevil.
10. Containment/maintenance. Means a
					 statewide program designed to monitor the level of boll weevil infestations to
					 eliminate any re-infestations of boll weevils.
11. Cotton. Any cotton plant or cotton plant
					 products upon which the boll weevil is dependent for completion of any portion
					 of its life cycle.
12. Department.
					 The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
13. Eradication Area. That portion of
					 Mississippi where eradication of the boll weevil is undertaken as an
					 objective.
14. Eradication Program.
					 Any unified regional or statewide program designed to eliminate the boll weevil
					 as an economic pest within the specified area.
15. Gin trash. All material produced during
					 the cleaning and ginning of seed cotton, bolls or snapped cotton except lint
					 and cottonseed.
16. Grower. Any
					 person who is responsible for production and sale of cotton on any
individual farm.
17. Host. Any plant or plant product upon
					 which the boll weevil is dependent for completion of any portion of its life
					 cycle.
18. Infested. Actually
					 infested with a boll weevil or so exposed to infestation that it would be
					 reasonable to believe that an infestation exists.
19. Non-Commercial cotton. Cotton intended
					 for purposes other than processing.
20. Permit. A document issued or authorized
					 by the Commissioner to provide for the movement of regulated articles to
					 restricted destination for limited handling, utilization, or
					 processing.
21. Person. Any
					 individual, corporation, company, society, association, or other business
					 entity.
22. Region. A specific
					 cotton growing area within the state as defined by the Technical Advisory
					 Committee of the Certified Cotton Growers Organization, as those regions
					 existed before July 1, 2010.
23.
					 Regulated Area. Any county, parish, township, city or other civil division or
					 part thereof in any state or territory listed in this Rule being placed under
					 quarantine, and such other areas as may become infested or deemed to present a
					 hazard of spread of the boll weevil.
24. Re-infestation. Re-infestation shall
					 occur when more than one boll weevil is trapped in any cycle or combination of
					 successive cycles or so exposed to infestation with a boll weevil that it would
					 be considered infested and reproduction is occurring according to criteria
					 established by program management and the Mississippi Boll Weevil Management
					 Corporation.
25. Seed Cotton.
					 Cotton as it comes from the field prior to ginning.
26. Used Cotton Equipment. Any cotton
					 equipment previously used to harvest, strip, transport, or process
					 cotton.
27. Waiver. A written
					 authorization which exempts an individual from compliance with one or more
					 specific requirements of this Rule.
Miss. Code Ann.
						§
												69-37-3
						(Rev. 2010). /