330 CMR, § 9.03 - Currant and Gooseberry Quarantine

(1) No person shall deliver within the Commonwealth from outside the Commonwealth any currant or gooseberry (Ribes spp.) plant, root, scion, seed or cutting unless a control area permit has been issued by the Department of Food and Agriculture.

(2) Control area permits will not be issued for any shipment with a destination in any of the following municipalities :

Acton	Duxbury	Lee	Plymouth
Alford	East Bridgewater	Lenox	Plympton
Amesbury	Easton	Leverett	Princeton
Andover	Egremont	Leyden	Raynham
Ashburnham	Erving	Littleton	Rochester
Ashby	Essex	Manchester	Rowley
Ashfield	Foxboro	Mansfield	Royalston
Athol	Freetown	Marshfield	Salisbury
Ayer	Gardner	Medfield	Sandisfield
Barre	Georgetown	Merrimac	Sharon
Becket	Gill	Methuen	Sheffield
Berkley	Gloucester	Middleboro	Shelburne
Bernardston	Gill	Middlefield	Shirley
Billerica	Goshen	Middleton	Shutesbury
Blandford	Granville	Millis	Southampton
Bolton	Great Barrington	Montague	Stockbridge
Boxboro	Greenfield	Monterey	Stoughton
Boxford	Groton	New Marlboro	Stow
Bridgewater	Grove land	New Salem	Sunderland
Buck land	Halifax	Newbury	Taunton
Canton	Hamilton	Newburyport	Templeton
Carlisle	Hanover	Norfolk	Tewksbury
Carver	Hanson	North Andover	Tolland
Charlemont	Hardwick	North Reading	Topsfield
Chelmsford	Harvard	Northfield	Towns end
Chester	Haverhill	Norton	Tyngsboro
Chesterfield	Hawley	Norwell	Tyringham
Colrain	Heath	Orange	Walpole
Conway	Hubbardston	Otis	Wareham
Cummingto n	Huntington	Pembroke	Warwick
Deerfield	Ipswich	Pepperell	Wendell
Dover	Kingston	Petersham	Wenham
Dracut	Lakeville	Phillipston	West Bridgewater
Dunstable	Lancaster	Plainfield	West Newbury
Stockbridge	Tolland	Warwick	Westminster
Stoughton	Topsfield	Wendell	Whately
Stow	Townsend	Wenham	Williamsburg
Sunderland	Tyngsboro	West Bridgewater	Wilmington
Taunton	Tyringham	West Newbury	Winchendon
Templeton	Walpole	Westford	Worthington
Tewksbury	Wareham	Westhampton	Wrentham
Westford	Whately	Winchendon	Wrentham
Westhampton	Williamsburg	Worthington
Westminster	Wilmington

(3) If necessary, the Department of Agricultural Resources, in its sole discretion, shall amend this list following a review, which at a minimum shall occur every ten years. This review shall include, but not be limited to: consultation with the Department of Conservation and Recreation to determine whether the impact to significant stands of white pine (Pinus strobus) has changed; any mutations or other changes in the white pine blister rust fungus (Cronartium ribicola) that infects both currants and white pine; availability of rust-resistant varieties, cultivars, or hybrids of currants (Ribes spp.).

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330 CMR, § 9.03

Amended by Mass Register Issue 1324, eff. 10/21/2016.