New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 2 - AGRICULTURE › Chapter 71 - GRADES AND STANDARDS › Subchapter 7 - "JERSEY GROWN" LOGO › Section 2:71-7.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
For the purposes of this subchapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Agriculture" means the production of plants and animals useful to man, including all forms of farm products and farm production.
"Certificate" means a document authorized or prepared by a duly authorized Federal or State regulatory official that affirms, declares, or verifies that an article, nursery stock, plant, product, shipment or any other officially regulated article meets phytosanitary (quarantine), nursery inspection, pest freedom, plant registration or certification, or other set of legal requirements (4:7-15 et seq.).
"Certification" means the act, by a duly authorized regulatory official of the Department, of affirming, declaring, or verifying compliance with nursery inspection, pest freedom, plant registration or certification, or any other set of legal requirements.
"Cut Christmas tree" means sheared stock of the coniferous species which are normally cut and marketed as Christmas trees or holiday trees and include the following species:
1. Leyland Cypress (
Cupressocyparis Leylandii
);
2. Douglas Fir (
Pseudotsuga Menziesii
);
3. Balsam Fir (
Abies Balsamea
);
4. Canaan Fir (
Abies Balsamea var. Phanerolepis
);
5. Red Fir (
Abies Magnifica
);
6. White Fir (
Abies Concolor
);
7. Fraser Fir (
Abies Fraseri
);
8. Grand Fir (
Abies Grandis
);
9. Noble Fir (
Abies Procera
);
10. White Spruce (
Picea Glauca
);
11. Blue Spruce (
Picea Pungens
);
12. Norway Spruce (
Picea Abies
);
13. Eastern Red Cedar (
Juniperus Virginiana
);
14. Red Pine (
Pinus Resinosa
);
15. White Pine (
Pinus Strobus
);
16. Southwestern White Pine (
Pinus Strobiformis
);
17. Virginia Pine (
Pinus Virginiana
); and
18. Scotch Pine (
Pinus Sylvestris
).
"Grower" means, but is not limited to, any person who raises, grows or propagates cut Christmas trees or turfgrass sod, whether for profit or other reasons, or whether outdoors or indoors.
"Nursery" means any location where nursery stock is grown, propagated, stored, or sold; or any location from which nursery stock is distributed direct to a customer.
"Nursery Certificate" is a document issued by the Department indicating that the nursery stock was inspected pursuant to 4:7-15 et seq. and certified to be apparently free of dangerously injurious insects, highly invasive weed plants and plant diseases. The certificate is valid for one calendar year or until a subsequent inspection finds infestation of dangerously injurious plant pests or diseases.
"Nursery stock" means all plants, trees, shrubs, and vines grown for sale, as well as grafts, cuttings, and buds and other parts of plants that may be sold for propagation, whether cultivated or wild; but shall not include herbaceous annuals or plants, flowers, vines or cuttings grown under glass and commonly known as florists' stock.
"Ornamental annual plant material" means annuals or bedding plants not to include any fruit or vegetable plants.
"Plant material" includes any part of a plant, tree, aquatic plant, plant product, shrub, vine, fruit, rhizome, vegetable, seed, bulb, stolon, tuber, corm, pip, cutting, scion, bud, graft, or fruit pit.
"Plant material" includes any part of a plant, tree, aquatic plant, plant product, plant material, shrub, vine, fruit, rhizome, vegetable, seed, bulb, stolon, tuber, corm, pip, cutting, scion, bud, graft, or fruit pit.
"Plant pest" includes, but is not limited to: any pest of plants, agricultural commodities, crop seed, farm products, horticultural products, nursery stock, or non-cultivated plants. This includes, but is not limited to: insects, snails, nematodes, fungi, viruses, bacterium, microorganisms, mycoplasma like organisms, weeds, plants, or parasitic higher plants.
"Producer" means a farmer who raises, grows, propagates or maintains, for profit or other reasons, outdoors or indoors, any horticultural product, plant material or nursery stock in New Jersey.
"Secretary" means the Secretary of the State of New Jersey Department of Agriculture or his or her designee.
"Sell" means an offer for sale, expose for sale, possess for sale, exchange, barter, or trade.