Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection › ATCP 20-54 - Agricultural Resource Management › Chapter ATCP 21 - Plant Inspection And Pest Control › Section ATCP 21.01 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Africanized honeybee" means any African
				honeybee, any hybrid of an African honeybee, or any hybrid of that
				hybrid.
(2) "American foulbrood"
				means
Paenibacillus
larvae and related pathogens.
(2r) "Asian longhorned beetle" means the live
				insect,
Anoplophora glabripennis
(Motschulsky), family
				Cerambycidae, in any living stage of development.
(3) "Beehive" means a honeybee colony and any
				equipment used to house that colony. "Beehive" does not include a package or
				shipment consisting only of a queen, a queen and attendant honeybees, or adult
				honeybees.
(4) "Biological control
				agent" has the meaning specified in s.
				94.03 (2),
				Stats.
(5) "Colony" means a group
				of honeybees consisting of a queen, adult honeybees, and brood.
(6) "Department" means the state of Wisconsin
				department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.
(6p) "Firewood" means wood sold or
				distributed and used for burning for heat, or for recreational burning, and
				includes home heating and campfire wood.
(6r) "Firewood dealer" means a person who
				sells or distributes 20 or more cords of firewood each year in this state and
				whose primary business location is in Wisconsin.
(7) "Genetically engineered pest or
				biological control agent" means a pest or biological control agent produced in
				any part by recombinant DNA or recombinant RNA technology.
(8) "Spongy moth" means the live insect,
Lymantria dispar
, family Lymantriidae, in any life stage,
				including the egg, larva, pupa, or adult stage.
(8g) "Hemlock" means a tree or shrub of the
				genus
Tsuga
, including all cultivars.
(8r) "Hemlock woolly adelgid" means the live
				insect,
Adelges tsugae
, family Adelgidae, in any life
				stage.
(8w) "Infestation" means the
				presence of a regulated plant pest, or conditions that make it reasonable to
				believe that a regulated plant pest is present.
(9) "Person" means an individual,
				corporation, partnership, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, or
				other legal entity.
(10) "Pest" has
				the meaning specified in s.
				93.01 (10),
				Stats. "Pest" includes honeybee diseases, pests of honeybees, and undesirable
				honeybees.
(11) "Pest control
				official" means a federal, state, or provincial government official or agent
				who is accredited by the United States department of agriculture to certify
				that plants, honeybees, or other items are free of pests.
(12m) "Treated firewood" means firewood that
				a firewood dealer certified under s.
				ATCP
				21.20 (2) has treated, at a location
				identified in s.
				ATCP
				21.20 (2) (c) 3., according to the
				dealer's representations under s.
				ATCP
				21.20 (1) (b).
(13) "Undesirable honeybees" means either of
				the following:
(a) Africanized
				honeybees.
(b) Honeybee species
				which, because of their undesirable genetic traits, are declared by the
				department or the United States department of agriculture to be pests.
Note:
See ss.
				  93.01 (10) and
				  94.69 (1),
				  Stats., and s.
				  ATCP
				  29.02, Wis. Adm. Code.