PSD Rules and Regulations

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 terms apply to this Chapter:
1. "Air plant (Epiphyte)" means a plant that grows on another plant or object but does not require the other plant or object as a source of nutrients.
2. "Appliance" means any box, tray, container, ladder, tent, vehicle, implement, or any article or thing that is or may be used in growing, harvesting, handling, packing, or transporting any agricultural commodity.
3. "Aquatic" means living or growing in or on water.
4. "Bulk container" means a package used solely for transporting a commodity in bulk quantities.
5. "Carrier" means any plant or thing that can transport or harbor a crop pest.
6. "Certificate" means an original document issued by an inspector of 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.
7. "Commodity" means any plant, appliance, soil, material, or thing that is subject to federal and state laws and rules.
8. "Common carrier" means any person transporting a commodity for compensation or commercial purpose.
9. "Consumer container" means a package that is produced or distributed for retail sale or for consumption by an individual.
10. "Container" means any box, crate, lug, chest, basket, carton, barrel, keg, drum, can, sack, or other receptacle for a commodity.
11. "Cotton harvesting machine" means any machine used to pick or harvest raw cotton in a field.
12. "Cotton lint" means the remnant produced when cottonseed is processed in a gin.
13. "Cotton plant" means all parts of Gossypium spp. whether wild or domesticated, except manufactured cotton products.
14. "Cotton products" include seed cotton, cotton lint, cotton linters, motes, cotton waste, gin trash, cottonseed, and cotton hulls.
15. "Cotton waste" includes all waste products from the processing of cotton at gins and cottonseed-oil mills, in any form or under any trade designation.
16. "Defoliate" means to remove the leaves from a plant.
17. "Diseased" means an abnormal condition of a plant resulting from an infection.
18. "Fumigate" means to apply a gaseous substance to a commodity in a closed area to eradicate a pest.
19. "Gin trash" means organic waste or materials resulting from ginning cotton.
20. "Head leaves" means all leaves that enfold the compact portion of a head of lettuce or cabbage.
21. "Host" means a plant on or in which a pest can live or reproduce, or both.
22. "Hull" means the dry outer covering of a seed or nut.
23. "Husk" means the membranous outer envelope of many seeds and fruit, such as an ear of corn or a nut.
24. "Infected" means any plant or other material on or in which a disease is found.
25. "Infested" means any plant or other material on or in which a pest is found.
26. "Inspector" means an employee of the Department or other governmental agency who enforces any law or rule of the Department.
27. "Label" means all tags and other written, printed, or graphic representations in any form, accompanying or pertaining to a plant or other commodity.
28. "Lot" means any one group of plants or things, whether or not containerized that is set apart or is separate from any other group.
29. "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(6))
30. "Permit" means an official document authorizing the movement of a host plant and carrier.
31. "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision or unit of a governmental subdivision, a public or private organization of any character, or another agency.
32. "Plant" 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))
33. "Private carrier" means any person transporting a commodity for a noncommercial purpose.
34. "Quarantine holding area" means a site approved by the Department to hold plant material originating from an area infested with imported fire ants or nematode pests.
35. "Reshipment" means the shipment of a commodity after receipt from another shipping point.
36. "Sell" means to exchange for money or its equivalent including to offer, expose, or possess a commodity for sale or to otherwise exchange, barter, or trade.
37. "Serious damage" means any injury or defect rising from any circumstance, natural or mechanical, that affects the appearance or the edible or shipping quality of a commodity, or lot.
38. "Soil" means any non-liquid combination of organic, or organic and inorganic material in which plants can grow.
39. "Standard container" means a receptacle used to pack a specific commodity.
40. "Stub or soca cotton" means cotton stalks of a previous crop that begin to show signs of growing by displaying buds, which swell or send out shoots of plant growth, either white or green.
41. "Subcontainer" means any container being used within another container.
42. "Transport" means moving an article from one point to another.
43. "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 crop pest.
44. "Warning-Hold for Agricultural Inspection" means an official Department notice given to a common carrier or private carrier to place a commodity under quarantine.
45. "Vector" means an organism (usually an insect) that may carry a pathogen from one host plant to another.
46. "Vehicle" means an automotive device, such as a car, bus, truck, or private or recreational vehicle.
47. "Volunteer cotton" means a sprout from seed of a previous crop.
48. "Wrapper leaves" means all leaves that do not closely enfold the compact portion of the head of lettuce or cabbage.