Section R3-4-101. Definitions

In addition to the definitions provided in A.R.S. §§ 3-201, 3-231, 3- 441, and 3-481, the following definitions apply to this Chapter:

“Appliance” means any box, tray, container, ladder, tent, vehi- cle, implement, or any article or thing that is or may be used in growing, harvesting, handling, packing, or transporting any agricultural commodity.

“Aquatic” means living or growing in or on water.

“Bulk container” means a container used solely for transport- ing a commodity in bulk quantities.

“Carrier” means any plant or thing that can transport or harbor a plant pest.

“Certificate” means an original document issued by the Department, the United States Department of Agriculture, or authorized officer of the state of origin, stating name, quantity, and nature of the regulated commodity, and the information required by a specific regulation.

“Commodity” means any plant, produce, soil, material, or thing that may be subject to federal and state laws and rules.

“Container” means any box, crate, lug, chest, basket, carton, barrel, keg, drum, can, sack, or other receptacle for a commod- ity.

“Cotton lint” means the remnant produced when cottonseed is processed in a gin.

“Cotton plant” means all parts of Gossypium spp. whether wild or domesticated, except manufactured cotton products.

“Cotton products” include seed cotton, cotton lint, cotton lint- ers, motes, cotton waste, gin trash, cottonseed, and cotton hulls.

“Cotton stubble” means the basal part of a cotton plant that remains attached to the soil after harvest.

“Cotton waste” includes all waste products from the process- ing of cotton at gins and cottonseed-oil mills, in any form or under any trade designation.

“Defoliate” means to remove the leaves from a plant.

“Diseased” means an abnormal condition of a plant resulting from an infection.

“Gin trash” means organic waste or materials resulting from ginning cotton.

“Head leaves” means all leaves that enfold the compact por- tion of a head of lettuce or cabbage.

“Host” means a plant on or in which a pest can live or repro- duce, or both.

“Husk” means the membranous outer envelope of many seeds and fruit, such as an ear of corn or a nut.

“Infested” means any plant or other material on or in which a pest is found.

“Inspector” means an employee of the Department or other governmental agency who enforces any law or rule of the Department.

“Label” means all tags and other written, printed, or graphic representations in any form, accompanying or pertaining to a plant or other commodity.

“Lot” means any one group of plants or things, whether or not containerized that is set apart or is separate from any other group.

“Nursery” means real property or other premises on or in which nursery stock is propagated, grown, or cultivated or from which source nursery stock is offered for distribution or sale. (A.R.S. § 3-201(5))

“Permit” means an official document authorizing the move- ment of a host plant and carrier.

“Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, asso- ciation, governmental subdivision or unit of a governmental subdivision, a public or private organization of any character, or another agency.

“Plant” or “crop” includes every kind of vegetation, wild or domesticated, and any part thereof, as well as seed, fruit or other natural product of such vegetation. (A.R.S. § 3-201(8))

“Reshipment” means the shipment of a commodity after receipt from another shipping point.

“Sell” means to exchange for money or its equivalent includ- ing to offer, expose, or possess a commodity for sale or to oth- erwise exchange, barter, or trade.

“Serious damage” means any injury or defect rising from any circumstance, natural or mechanical, that affects the appear- ance or the edible or shipping quality of a commodity, or lot.

“Soil” means any non-liquid combination of organic, or organic and inorganic material in which plants can grow.

“Stub or soca cotton” means cotton stalks of a previous crop that begin to show signs of growth.

“Subcontainer”  means  any  container   being  used  within another container.

“Transport”  means  moving   an  article  from  one  point  to another.

“Treatment” means an application of a substance as either a spray, mist, dust, granule, or fumigant; or a process in which a substance or procedure is used to control or eradicate a plant pest.

“Vector” means an organism (usually an insect) that may carry a pathogen from one host plant to another.

“Vehicle” means an automotive device, such as a car, bus, truck, or private or recreational vehicle.

“Volunteer cotton” means a sprout from seed of a previous crop.

“Wrapper leaves” means all leaves that do not closely enfold the compact portion of the head of lettuce or cabbage.

Historical Note

Former Rule 1; Amended effective June 16, 1977 (Supp. 77-3). Section R3-1-01 renumbered to R3-4-101 (Supp. 91-4). Repealed effective April 11, 1994 (Supp. 94-2). New Section R3-4-101 renumbered from R3-4-102 with- out change, effective October 8, 1998 (Supp. 98-4).

Amended by final rulemaking at 5 A.A.R. 2521, effective July 15, 1999 (Supp. 99-3). Amended by final rulemak-

ing at 19 A.A.R. 3860, effective January 4, 2014 (Supp.

13-4).