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Texas Agriculture Code - Section 74.102. Definitions

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§ 74.102. DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:                                 
		(1)  "Board" means the board of directors of the Texas 
Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, Inc.
		(2)  "Boll weevil" has the meaning assigned by Section 
74.002.              
		(3)  "Commissioner" means commissioner of agriculture.                        
		(4)  "Cotton" means:                                                          
			(A)  a cotton plant;                                                         
			(B)  a part of a cotton plant, including bolls, 
stalks, flowers, roots, and leaves;  or
			(C)  cotton products, including seed cotton, 
cottonseed, and hulls.        
		(5)  "Cotton grower" means a person who grows cotton 
and receives income from the sale of cotton.  The term includes an 
individual who as owner, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper is 
entitled to share in the cotton grown and available for marketing 
from a farm or to share in the proceeds from the sale of the cotton 
from the farm.
		(6)  "Eradication" means elimination of boll weevils or 
pink bollworms to the extent that the commissioner does not 
consider further elimination of boll weevils or pink bollworms 
necessary to prevent economic loss to cotton growers.  Eradication 
includes diapause activities.
		(7)  "Eradication zone" means a geographic area:                              
			(A)  established under Section 74.1021;  or                                  
			(B)  designated by the commissioner in accordance 
with Section 74.105 in which cotton growers by referendum approve 
their participation in a boll weevil or pink bollworm eradication 
program.
		(8)  "Foundation" means the Texas Boll Weevil 
Eradication Foundation, Inc., a Texas nonprofit corporation.
		(9)"Host" means a plant or plant product in which the 
boll weevil or pink bollworm is capable of completing any portion of 
its life cycle.
		(10)  "Infested" means the presence of the boll weevil 
or pink bollworm in any life stage or the existence of generally 
accepted entomological evidence from which it may be concluded with 
reasonable certainty that the boll weevil or pink bollworm is 
present.
		(11)  "Integrated pest management" is the coordinated 
use of pest and environmental information with available pest 
control methods, including pesticides, natural predator controls, 
cultural farming practices, and climatic conditions, to prevent 
unacceptable levels of pest damage by the most economical means and 
with the least possible hazard to people, property, and the 
environment.
		(12)  "Pink bollworm" has the meaning assigned by 
Section 74.002.           
		(13)  "Regulated article" means an article carrying or 
capable of carrying the boll weevil or pink bollworm, including 
cotton plants, seed cotton, gin trash, other hosts, or mechanical 
cotton harvesters.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 8, § 1, eff. June 1, 1993.  
Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 227, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 
1995;  Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 463, § 1.03, eff. May 30, 1997.

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