2 Miss. Code. R. § 1-3-01-103
The Bureau of Plant Industry, Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce, under provisions of Miss. Code Ann. §§ 69-25-1 to 69-25-47, and more especially Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-1 and § 69-25-7, does declare the following words or terms to have the following meaning as used in this chapter:
1.
Balled
and burlapped stock means that nursery stock which has been
removed from the growing site with a ball of soil, containing the root system
left intact and encased in burlap or other similar material to hold the soil in
place.
2.
Bare-root
stock means that nursery stock which has been removed from the
growing site with the root system free of soil.
3.
Collector of native
plants means any person collecting native wild plants or plants
not nursery grown for the purpose of resale.
4.
Container stock
means that nursery stock which has been placed in a metal, clay, plastic or
other rigid container, in soil or other potting mixture capable of sustaining
normal plant growth remaining intact when removed from said
container.
5.
Nursery means any grounds or premises on or in which
nursery stock is propagated, grown, or procured for resale and held for sale
throughout the year.
6.
Nursery agent or salesman means any person who
solicits, takes orders, or sells nursery stock in this state for a nurseryman,
nursery dealer or grower of nursery stock, but not on the premises or place of
business.
7.
Nursery
dealer means any person, firm partnership, association,
corporation, or company other than a nurseryman who buys or collects nursery
stock for the purpose of reselling or reshipping or otherwise dealing in
nursery stock on a seasonal basis (usually three of four months each season),
independently of the control of any nurseryman or nursery e.g., chain stores,
department stores, grocery stores, etc.
8.
Nurseryman means
any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or company, owning,
leasing, managing or in charge of a nursery.
9.
Nursery stock
means all plants commonly known as nursery stock, whether field grown,
greenhouse grown, or collected native plants, consisting of palms and woody
perennial, trees, shrubs, seedlings, vines, roses, strawberry, blackberry and
other brambles, budwood, cuttings, grafts, scions, bulbs, corms, rhizomes, or
roots thereof; also other such plants and plant products grown or collected or
kept for propagation, sale or distribution; excepting field, vegetable and
flower seeds, cut flowers, cut ferns, cut foliage and other plant material not
intended for propagation and when apparently free from injurious insect pests
and plant diseases.
10.
Nursery stock peddler means any person, firm,
partnership, association, corporation or company, who by means of a car, truck,
wagon, or other vehicle, or other means of transportation, transports nursery
stock from place to place offering it for sale.
11.
Packaged stock
means bare-root nursery stock either in bundles or as single plant with the
roots in peat, wood shavings, or other moisture retaining material, not toxic
to the plants, encased in plastic film or other material designed to retard
evaporation and hold the moisture-retaining material in place.
12.
Place of
business means each separate nursery, store, stand, sales ground,
lot, or any location or vehicle from which nursery stock is being sold, offered
for sale, or distributed.
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