§ 3.1-188.20. (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Definitions
The following terms when used in this article, except where the context otherwise requires, shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them in this section:
A. "Board". - The Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
B. "Commissioner". - The Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services or any other person to whom authority to act in his stead has been or hereafter may be delegated.
C. "Pest". - Insect, disease, parasitic plant, or other organism of any character whatever, in any living stage, vertebrate or invertebrate, causing or capable of causing injury or damage to any plant or part thereof or any processed, manufactured, or other product of plants, or otherwise creating a public nuisance.
D. "Host". - Any plant or plant product upon which a pest is dependent for completion of any portion of its life cycle.
E. "Infested". - Actually infested or infected with a pest or so exposed to infestation that it would be reasonable to believe that an infestation exists.
F. "Person". - Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, society, or association, or other business entity.
G. "Move". - To ship, offer for shipment, receive for transportation, carry, or otherwise transport, move or allow to be moved.
H. "Regulated article". - Any article of any character carrying or capable of carrying the pest against which the quarantine is directed.
I. "Certificate". - A document issued or authorized by the Commissioner indicating that a regulated article is not contaminated with a pest.
J. "Permit". - A document issued or authorized by the Commissioner to provide for the movement of regulated articles to restricted destinations for limited handling, utilization, or processing.
(1975, c. 29; 1980, c. 291.)
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