Mont. Admin. R. 4.12.1301 - DEFINITIONS
(1) "Article" is any item subject to a
quarantine.
(2) "Department" means
the Department of Agriculture.
(3)
"Accredited Certifying Official (ACO)" is a federal, state, or county official
accredited to perform phytosanitary inspections and sign phytosanitary
certificates for commodities meeting phytosanitary requirements.
(4) "Fomite" is any inanimate object or
substance capable of carrying an organism, functions to transfer an organism,
or in any other way acts as a nonliving vector of a pest.
(5) "Location" is any place where quarantine
pests, quarantine articles, plants, plant propagative material, plant products,
and other associated items or materials are. This includes, but is not limited
to, businesses; fields; gardens; production areas; propagation areas;
greenhouses; processing facilities; places where regulated articles or plants
are kept, sold, traded, bartered, used, given away, or distributed; and all
conveyances.
(6) "Long-term
quarantine" is a quarantine that lasts over 12 months.
(7) "Permit" is a written authorization
issued by the department, another state, or the federal government and is
approved by the department for the movement of any prohibited or restricted
plant pests or quarantined articles.
(8) "Phytosanitary documentation" is legal
paperwork certifying that visual inspections have been completed by a state or
federal official and that all other requirements such as, but not limited to,
surveys, laboratory tests, and treatments, have been met.
(9) "Phytosanitary inspection" is an
inspection conducted by an individual trained and certified to determine if
prohibited materials or organisms are present or to take official samples to be
examined by a qualified individual or an accredited laboratory
elsewhere.
(10) "Phytosanitary
measure" is an action taken to assure that prohibited materials and/or
organisms are not present in or on plants or plant materials.
(11) "Plant matter" is any plant species that
includes, but is not limited to, agricultural, forest, range, nursery, or
ornamental species; soil; fruit, vegetables, seeds, or nuts; any other plant
part or propagative material; or plant product. This includes house,
greenhouse, hothouse, potted (regardless of planting medium), bareroot,
aquarium, pond or other water related, and windbreak plants.
(12) "Plant pest" is any organism that can
directly or indirectly injure or cause damage in or to a plant, plant
propagative material, or a plant product including, but not limited to, an
insect, weed, fungus, virus, bacteria, parasite, pathogen, nematode, vector or
other organism that meets the criteria as a pest established by department
rule.
(13) "Proper documents" is a
copy of the original invoice listing the origin of the articles, quantity and
value of articles, location where the articles are destined to arrive,
anticipated date of arrival, and/or other requirements specified under a
quarantine.
(14) "Quarantine" is a
rule, order, or other legal instrument duly imposed or enacted by the
department on regulated areas or articles.
(15) "Quarantined article" is anything
covered by a quarantine order in ARM
4.12.1302,
4.12.1303, or an emergency declared
by the director of the Department of Agriculture.
(16) "Regulated area" is an area into which,
within which, and/or from which plants, plant products, and other regulated
articles are subject to phytosanitary measures or a quarantine to prevent the
introduction and/or spread of quarantine pests.
(17) "Regulated article" is any plant, plant
matter, propagative plant parts, plant products, associated plant material,
container, conveyance, or any other object or material capable of harboring or
spreading plant pests, and that is subject to phytosanitary measures or a
quarantine.
(18) "Short-term
quarantine" is a quarantine that lasts 12 months or less.
(19) "Vector" is an organism that transmits a
pathogen.
Notes
80-7-402, MCA; IMP, 80-7-402, MCA;
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