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California Food and Agricultural Code - Division 4: Plant Quarantine and Pest Control - Part 2: Shipments - Chapter 1: Generally (secs. 6301 - 6344)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
California
Document type
Legislation
Date
1967 (2018)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Cultivated plants
Keyword
Integrated pest management-IPM/pest management strategies Pests/diseases Plant protection Internal trade International trade Procedural matters Quarantine Disinfection/disinfestation Hygiene/sanitary procedures Alien species Planting material/seeds Enforcement/compliance Processing/handling Risk assessment/management Transport/storage Plant production
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This Chapter of the California Food and Agricultural Code contains general provisions on pest control and transboundary shipments to and from California. It provides that if any article is found to have been transported into this state from any other country or state, or territory or district of the United States, in violation of any provision of a quarantine that is established by the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, the article is subject to seizure, destruction, or other disposition to the same extent and in the same manner as if the article had originated in this state and was in violation of a provision of the relevant division of the California Food and Agricultural Code. Further, it is unlawful for any person to import into, or transport thereafter within, the state any plant, fruit, or vegetable which is known to be, or may become, a host of any species of the fruit fly family Tephritidae from any territory, state, or district where such species of Tephritidae is known to exist except under permit and regulation of the Secretary of Food and Agriculture of California if the Secretary finds that the species is harmless to agriculture or that an effective treatment of the hosts eliminates fruit fly risk. Finally, if anything brought into any county or locality of the state from another county or locality within the state, or from any other state or foreign country, is found to be infested with the seed or propagule of any pest that is not of common occurrence in the county or locality into which the shipment is brought, the Secretary of Food and Agriculture of California or the county agricultural commissioner shall notify the owner or bailee of such shipment to return it to the point from which the shipment was made.

Full text
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Website
www.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov