80-7-105. Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise, in this chapter, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Firm" means an individual, company, partnership, association, or corporation.
     (2) "Nursery" means the business or location where nursery stock is grown or offered for sale or resale or as part of a landscape service.
     (3) "Nursery stock" means botanically classified plants or parts of plants. The following plants and plant materials may not be considered nursery stock:
     (a) aquatic plants used for aquarium purposes;
     (b) field crop plants and seeds;
     (c) pasture grasses;
     (d) cut plants not for propagation;
     (e) corms, tubers, and bulbs;
     (f) fruits or vegetables for human or animal consumption;
     (g) cut trees and products for processing; and
     (h) plant debris for disposal or processing.
     (4) "Nursery stock certification" means the process by which the nursery stock or other plants have been inspected and found to meet certification standards established by department rule.
     (5) "Plant inspection certificate" means a document issued by the department or the plant pest regulatory agency of another state that declares that the nursery stock, plants, or plant material grown by the firm named on the certificate is apparently free of injurious plant pests.
     (6) "Plant pest" means an insect, fungus, virus, bacteria, or other organism that can directly or indirectly injure or cause damage in a plant or a product of a plant and that meets the criteria as a pest established by department rule. For purposes of this chapter, noxious weeds, as defined in 7-22-2101(8)(a)(i), or other exotic weeds are defined as plant pests.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 551, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 407, L. 2001.