Wash. Admin. Code § 16-470-710 - Regulated articles

The following are declared to be hosts or possible carriers of Japanese beetle and are regulated articles under the Japanese beetle quarantine:

(1) The upper eight inches of topsoil containing vegetative material from all properties including, but not limited to, residential, agricultural, and commercial properties (including construction sites);

(2) Humus and compost (except when produced commercially), growing media (except when commercially packaged), and soil samples;

(3) Yard debris, meaning plant material commonly created in the course of maintaining yards and gardens and through horticulture, gardening, landscaping, or similar activities. Yard debris includes, but is not limited to, grass clippings, leaves, branches, brush, weeds, flowers, roots, windfall fruit, and vegetable garden debris;

(4) Plants for planting and propagation, except when dormant and bareroot and free from soil or growing media, including:

(a) All plants with roots;

(b) Plant crowns or roots;

(c) Bulbs;

(d) Corms;

(e) Tubers; and

(f) Rhizomes;

(5) Turfgrass (sod);

(6) Hop bines and unshucked corn ears harvested during the Japanese beetle adult flight season (May 15th through October 15th);

(7) Cut flowers for decorative purposes, including those exposed to open air environments during their harvest, transportation, or trade; and

(8) Any other plant, plant part, article, or means of conveyance when it is determined by the director to present a hazard of spreading live Japanese beetle due to either infestation, or exposure to infestation.

Notes

Wash. Admin. Code § 16-470-710

Amended by WSR 22-17-068, Filed 8/15/2022, effective 9/15/2022 Amended by WSR 24-17-053, Filed 8/15/2024, effective 9/15/2024

Statutory Authority: Chapter 17.24 RCW. 00-23-098, § 16-470-710, filed 11/21/00, effective 12/22/00; 90-15-042 (Order 2049), § 16-470-710, filed 7/16/90, effective 8/16/90.