Virginia Administrative Code › Title 2 - AGRICULTURE › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › Chapter 440 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR ENFORCEMENT OF THE VIRGINIA PEST LAW - COTTON BOLL WEEVIL QUARANTINE › Section 2VAC5-440-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall
				  have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Authorized inspector" means any person employed by a state
				  or federal regulatory plant pest agency and trained to inspect for and identify
				  boll weevil in any living stage.
"Board" means the Board of the Virginia Department of
				  Agriculture and Consumer Services.
"Boll weevil" means the live insect, "Anthonomus grandis
				  grandis" Boheman, in any stage of development.
"Boll Weevil Eradication and Exclusion Program" or "program"
				  means the program conducted by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and
				  Consumer Services and the Southeastern Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation,
				  Inc., to eradicate the boll weevil and subsequently prevent its reintroduction
				  into areas where it has been eradicated.
"Certificate" means a document issued or authorized by an
				  inspector to be issued under this chapter to allow the movement of regulated
				  articles to any destination.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Virginia
				  Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services or his designee.
"Compliance agreement" means a written agreement between a
				  grower, dealer, or mover of regulated articles, and the Virginia Department of
				  Agriculture and Consumer Services, United States Department of Agriculture, or
				  both, wherein the former agrees to comply with the requirements of the
				  compliance agreement.
"Cotton" means parts and products of plants of the genus
				  "Gossypium," before processing.
"Cottonseed" means cottonseed from which the lint has been
				  removed.
"Department" means the Virginia Department of Agriculture and
				  Consumer Services.
"FSA" means the United States Department of Agriculture, Farm
				  Service Agency.
"Gin trash" means all of the material produced during the
				  cleaning and ginning of seed cotton, bollies, or snapped cotton, except for the
				  lint, cottonseed, and gin waste.
"Grower" means a farm operator or producer, whether the owner
				  of the land or not.
"Infestation" means the presence of the boll weevil, or the
				  existence of circumstances that make it reasonable to believe that boll weevil
				  is present.
"Inspector" means any employee of the Virginia Department of
				  Agriculture and Consumer Services, or other person authorized by the
				  commissioner to enforce the provisions of the quarantine and
				  regulations.
"Limited permit" means a document issued by an inspector to
				  allow the movement of noncertifiable regulated articles to a specified
				  destination for limited handling, use, processing, or treatment.
"Lint" means all forms of raw ginned cotton, either baled or
				  unbaled, except linters and waste.
"Move," "moved," or "movement" means shipped; offered for
				  shipment to a common carrier; received for transportation or transported by a
				  common carrier; or carried, transported, moved, or allowed to be moved by any
				  means.
"NASS" means the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National
				  Agricultural Statistics Service.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, company, society,
				  or association or other organized group.
"Regulated area" means any state or country in which the boll
				  weevil is known to exist or areas where circumstances make it reasonable to
				  believe that the boll weevil is present.
"Scientific permit" means a document issued by the Virginia
				  Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to authorize movement of
				  regulated articles to a specified destination for scientific purposes.
"Seed cotton" means cotton as it comes from the field prior
				  to ginning.
"Used cotton harvesting equipment" means equipment previously
				  used to harvest, strip, transport or destroy cotton.
"Waybill" means a document containing the details of a
				  shipment of goods.
Statutory Authority: § 3.2-703 of the Code of
					 Virginia.