Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 3, § 3701 - Citrus Nursery Stock Pest Cleanliness Program

The following definitions apply to this section.

(a) "Applicant" means any person whose application has been submitted to but not yet accepted by the Department.

(b) "Authorized agent" means any person who has been granted authority by the Department to test plant and/or insect samples for the purposes of these regulations.

(c) "Breach" means any detectable opening of a size approximately 0.3 square millimeters inadvertently made in an insect-resistant structure.

(d) "Citrus" means "citrous" and any plants of the genera Citrus, Fortunella, Poncirus, and all hybrids having one or more of such as parents that could host any disease for which testing is required in Section 3701.6.

(e) "Citrus Clonal Protection Program" (CCPP) means the University of California at Riverside, Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology.

(f) "Citrus Clonal Protection Program Tag Number" or "CCPP Tag Number" means the unique identifying number assigned by CCPP to a tree.

(g) "Citrus tree" means a rooted citrus plant.

(h) "Department" means the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

(i) "Department registration number" means the unique identifying number assigned by the Department to each registered mother tree, mother line or seed tree.

(j) "Foundation stock" means propagative materials collected or taken from trees maintained by the CCPP.

(k) "Infected" means that the presence of a pathogen listed in these regulations was detected using the testing methods specified in Section 3701.6.

(l) "Micro-propagation" means vegetatively propagating plant material in vitro by means of nodal cuttings.

(m) "Official sample" means a sample collected by the Department.

(n) "Participant" means any person who agrees to fulfill the responsibilities of the participant described in Section 3701.2, who has submitted an application to the Department and whose application has been accepted by the Department.

(o) "Propagative materials" means seeds, cuttings, buds, budsticks, graft sticks or micro-propagated materials taken from a citrus tree.

(p) "Registered" means the Department has approved a citrus tree or propagative material that has been propagated, planted, inspected, tested, and documented in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.

(q) "Registered increase tree" means a citrus tree, propagated using propagative materials from CCPP, or a registered mother tree or mother line, for the purpose of rapidly producing budwood, and that the Department has determined to be in compliance with the inspection, testing and other requirements specified in these regulations.

(r) "Registered mother line" means in vitro material introduced into culture from nodal cuttings at a particular time and from a single tree, to be used as a source of vegetative propagating material; and that the Department has determined to be in compliance with the inspection, testing and other requirements specified in these regulations and to which the Department has assigned a tag bearing that line's departmentally assigned registration number.

(s) "Registered mother tree" means a citrus tree, used as a source of vegetative propagating material, that the Department has determined to be in compliance with the inspection, testing and other requirements specified in these regulations and to which the Department has attached a tag bearing that tree's departmentally assigned registration number.

(t) "Registered seed tree" means a citrus tree, used as a source of seed only, that the Department has determined to be in compliance with the inspection, testing and other requirements specified in these regulations and to which the Department has attached a tag bearing that tree's departmentally assigned registration number.

(u) "Resting" means that the Department has determined that additional samples will be collected and tested.

(v) "Target vector" means an insect vector of Tristeza or Huanglongbing.

(w) "Tested" means any test procedure using plant material or its extracts to determine the presence or absence of a disease or disease agent in or on the tested plant material. For the purposes of these regulations, testing will be in accordance with the procedures adopted by the Department for diseases and disease agents listed in Section 3701.6.

(x) "Topworking" means budding or grafting of another variety on top of existing stock.

Notes

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 3, § 3701

1. New section filed 5-17-2010 as an emergency; operative 5-17-2010 (Register 2010, No. 21). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 11-15-2010 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Repealed by operation of Government Code section 11346.1(g) (Register 2010, No. 48).
3. New section refiled 11-24-2010 as an emergency; operative 11-24-2010 (Register 2010, No. 48). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-22-2011 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4. Repealed by operation of Government Code section 11346.1(g) (Register 2011, No. 15).
5. New section refiled 4-14-2011 as an emergency; operative 4-14-2011 (Register 2011, No. 15). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 7-13-2011 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
6. Certificate of Compliance as to 4-14-2011 order, including amendment of section heading and section, transmitted to OAL 6-23-2011 and filed 7-5-2011 (Register 2011, No. 27).
7. Amendment of NOTE filed 2-20-2014; operative 4-1-2014 (Register 2014, No. 8).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 407, 5801, 5802 and 6946, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 407, 5801, 5802, 5803, 6940 and 6941, Food and Agricultural Code.

1. New section filed 5-17-2010 as an emergency; operative 5-17-2010 (Register 2010, No. 21). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 11-15-2010 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Repealed by operation of Government Code section 11346.1(g) (Register 2010, No. 48).
3. New section refiled 11-24-2010 as an emergency; operative 11-24-2010 (Register 2010, No. 48). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-22-2011 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4. Repealed by operation of Government Code section 11346.1(g) (Register 2011, No. 15).
5. New section refiled 4-14-2011 as an emergency; operative 4-14-2011 (Register 2011, No. 15). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 7-13-2011 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
6. Certificate of Compliance as to 4-14-2011 order, including amendment of section heading and section, transmitted to OAL 6-23-2011 and filed 7-5-2011 (Register 2011, No. 27).
7. Amendment of Note filed 2-20-2014; operative 4-1-2014 (Register 2014, No. 8).