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HOUSE BILL NO. 448 – Plant Pest Act

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H0448...............................................by AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS
PLANT PEST ACT - Repeals and adds to existing law to create the Idaho Plant
Pest Act of 2002; to provide for administration of the act by the
Department of Agriculture; to provide for collection of fees and penalties;
to authorize inspections; to provide procedures upon discovery of pests; to
require reporting of plant pests; to provide for liens and cost recovery;
to provide for compensation for the loss or destruction of infested or
infected plants; to provide for quarantines; to authorize rulemaking; to
prohibit shipment, introduction or release of certain pests; to provide for
permits and export certification and compliance agreements; to provide for
crop management areas; to authorize research and investigation of plant
pest problems and control; to provide for payment of costs; and to
authorize cooperation with landowners in pest control projects.
                                                                        
01/17    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/18    Rpt prt - to Agric Aff
02/13    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/14    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/18    3rd rdg - PASSED - 45-18-7
      AYES -- Aikele, Bell, Black, Block, Boe, Bolz, Bradford, Campbell,
      Collins, Cuddy, Deal, Denney, Ellis, Ellsworth, Eskridge, Field(13),
      Field(20), Gould, Higgins, Jaquet, Jones, Kellogg, Kunz, Lake,
      Langford, Martinez, Meyer, Montgomery, Mortensen, Moyle, Pearce,
      Pischner, Pomeroy, Raybould, Robison, Schaefer, Sellman, Shepherd,
      Smith(33), Smith(23), Smylie, Stevenson, Stone, Trail, Young
      NAYS -- Barraclough, Barrett, Bedke, Bruneel, Callister, Hammond,
      Harwood, Hornbeck, Kendell, Loertscher, Mader, McKague, Roberts,
      Sali, Tilman, Wheeler, Wood, Mr. Speaker
      Absent and excused -- Bieter, Clark, Crow, Gagner, Hadley, Henbest,
      Ridinger
    Floor Sponsor - Bolz
    Title apvd - to Senate
02/19    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Agric Aff
03/04    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/05    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/12    3rd rdg - PASSED - 35-0-0
      AYES -- Andreason, Boatright, Branch(Bartlett), Brandt, Bunderson,
      Burtenshaw, Cameron, Darrington, Davis, Deide, Dunklin, Frasure,
      Geddes, Goedde, Hawkins, Hill, Ingram, Ipsen, Keough, King-Barrutia,
      Little, Lodge, Marley, Noh, Richardson, Risch, Sandy, Schroeder,
      Sims, Sorensen, Stegner, Stennett, Thorne, Wheeler, Williams
      NAYS -- None
      Absent and excused -- None
    Floor Sponsor - Little
    Title apvd - to House
03/12    To enrol
03/13    Rpt enrol - Sp signed
    Pres signed
03/14    To Governor
03/19    Governor signed
         Session Law Chapter 89
         Effective: 07/01/02

Bill Text


                                                                        
                                                                        
  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-sixth Legislature                  Second Regular Session - 2002
                                                                        
                                                                        
                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                                                        
                                     HOUSE BILL NO. 448
                                                                        
                             BY AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE;  REPEALING CHAPTERS 10, 19,  20,  21
  3        AND  44,  TITLE  22, IDAHO CODE; AND AMENDING TITLE 22, IDAHO CODE, BY THE
  4        ADDITION OF A NEW CHAPTER 20, TITLE 22, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE A TITLE, TO
  5        PROVIDE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CHAPTER BY THE IDAHO  STATE  DEPART-
  6        MENT  OF  AGRICULTURE, TO PROVIDE A STATEMENT OF PURPOSE, TO AUTHORIZE THE
  7        DEPARTMENT TO ASSUME CERTAIN DUTIES, TO DEFINE  TERMS,  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE
  8        DIRECTOR  OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO PROMULGATE CERTAIN RULES AND
  9        TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION AND DEPOSIT OF FEES AND PENALTIES, TO AUTHO-
 10        RIZE THE DIRECTOR TO CONDUCT INSPECTIONS AND TO ENTER UPON  CERTAIN  LAND,
 11        TO  PROVIDE  A PROCEDURE UPON THE DISCOVERY OF CERTAIN PESTS, TO AUTHORIZE
 12        MARKING OF INFESTED OR INFECTED ARTICLES AND TO REQUIRE REPORTING  OF  THE
 13        DETECTION  OF  PLANT  PESTS,  TO PROVIDE FOR HOLD ORDERS OR STOP SALES, TO
 14        PROVIDE FOR CONTROL ORDERS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONTROL OF NUISANCES AND TO
 15        PROVIDE FOR LIENS AND COST RECOVERY, TO PROVIDE FOR COMPENSATION  FOR  THE
 16        LOSS  OR  DESTRUCTION  OF  INFESTED  OR INFECTED PLANTS, PLANT PRODUCTS OR
 17        OTHER ARTICLES, TO PROVIDE FOR  QUARANTINES,  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  QUARANTINE
 18        RULES, TO PROVIDE FOR REGULATED AREAS AND ARTICLES AND TO PROVIDE FOR TEM-
 19        PORARY  RULES, TO PROVIDE FOR REPEAL OF QUARANTINES, TO AUTHORIZE RULEMAK-
 20        ING FOR THE LISTING OF REGULATED NONQUARANTINE PESTS  AND  RESTRICTION  OF
 21        CERTAIN  PLANT PESTS, TO PROHIBIT THE SHIPMENT, INTRODUCTION OR RELEASE OF
 22        CERTAIN PESTS, AGENTS, PLANTS OR ORGANISMS, TO  PROVIDE  FOR  PERMITS,  TO
 23        PROVIDE  FOR EXPORT CERTIFICATION AND COMPLIANCE AGREEMENTS AND TO PROVIDE
 24        FOR NONINDIGENOUS PLANT PEST  SPECIES,  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  CROP  MANAGEMENT
 25        AREAS,  TO AUTHORIZE RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION OF PLANT PEST PROBLEMS AND
 26        CONTROL, TO PROVIDE A PROCEDURE RELATING TO INFESTATIONS OF CERTAIN PESTS,
 27        TO PROVIDE FOR PAYMENT OF COSTS RELATING TO PEST CONTROL, TO  PROVIDE  FOR
 28        DEFICIENCY  WARRANTS AND TO AUTHORIZE THE DIRECTOR TO COOPERATE WITH OTHER
 29        LANDOWNERS IN PEST CONTROL PROJECTS, TO PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR  VIOLATIONS,
 30        TO PROVIDE FOR COOPERATION WITH OTHER JURISDICTIONS, TO PROVIDE FOR SEVER-
 31        ABILITY  AND TO CLARIFY THE EFFECT OF THE CHAPTER ON CERTAIN EXISTING LIA-
 32        BILITY.
                                                                        
 33    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
 34        SECTION 1.  That Chapters 10, 19, 20, 21 and 44, Title 22, Idaho Code, be,
 35    and the same are hereby repealed.
                                                                        
 36        SECTION 2.  That Title 22, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby amended,
 37    by the addition thereto of a NEW CHAPTER, to be known and designated as  Chap-
 38    ter 20, Title 22, Idaho Code, and to read as follows:
                                                                        
 39                                      CHAPTER 20
 40                             IDAHO PLANT PEST ACT OF 2002
                                                                        
 41        22-2001.  TITLE.  This chapter shall be known as the "Idaho Plant Pest Act
                                                                        
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  1    of 2002."
                                                                        
  2        22-2002.  ADMINISTRATION. This chapter shall be administered by the  Idaho
  3    state department of agriculture.
                                                                        
  4        22-2003.  STATEMENT  OF PURPOSE. The purpose of this chapter is to prevent
  5    the introduction and  subsequent  dissemination  of  plant  pests  into  Idaho
  6    through  the  movement  of  nursery stock and other plants and plant products.
  7    This chapter provides for the regulation of plant  material  and  plant  pests
  8    moving  into  Idaho and establishes provisions under which such plant material
  9    and products may legally enter the state. This chapter also establishes provi-
 10    sions for the  establishment  of  interstate  and  intrastate  quarantines  to
 11    restrict the movement of nursery stock, plant pests and plant products.
                                                                        
 12        22-2004.  DUTIES  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT. The department may control and pre-
 13    vent, by such means as shall be prescribed and provided by law,  rule,  or  by
 14    order  of  the department, all contagious, infectious and plant pests destruc-
 15    tive to the state's agricultural, forestry or horticultural  interests  or  to
 16    the state's general environmental quality.
                                                                        
 17        22-2005.  DEFINITIONS. When used in this chapter:
 18        (1)  "Acceptable  level"  means  the probable level of harm that is so low
 19    that the imposition of phytosanitary requirements  is  not  required;  or  the
 20    probable  level of harm that the trade partners agree to achieve through or by
 21    the imposition of pest risk mitigation measures or strategies and  accept  for
 22    continued  trade  when  confirmed  by phytosanitary certification of specified
 23    host commodities.
 24        (2)  "Agent" means any person who on behalf of any other  person  receives
 25    on  consignment,  contracts for, or solicits for sale on commission, any plant
 26    product from a producer of such product, or who negotiates the consignment  or
 27    purchase of any plant product on behalf of any other person.
 28        (3)  "Agricultural  commodities" means plant products including any horti-
 29    cultural product.
 30        (4)  "Agriculture" means the production of plants.
 31        (5)  "Appliance" means any box, tray,  container,  ladder,  tent  vehicle,
 32    implement  or  other  article which is, or may be, used in connection with the
 33    growing, harvesting, handling or transportation of any agricultural commodity.
 34        (6)  "Area" means any political division or subdivision or any  officially
 35    defined  area  including  adjacent  parts of contiguous political divisions or
 36    subdivisions. Political divisions include  nations  and  states  or  provinces
 37    within  nations  and states. Political subdivisions include counties, parishes
 38    and cities or municipalities. Officially defined areas also  may  include  any
 39    other  clearly  defined and identifiable area including a specific property or
 40    facility.
 41        (7)  "Certificate" means a document  authorized  or  prepared  by  a  duly
 42    authorized federal or state regulatory official that affirms, declares or ver-
 43    ifies  that  an  article,  nursery stock, plant product, shipment or any other
 44    officially regulated article meets phytosanitary, quarantine, nursery  inspec-
 45    tion, pest freedom, plant registration or certification, or other set of legal
 46    requirements.   Such  documents  are  known  by  their  purpose  of  issuance:
 47    phytosanitary certificate,  for  the  purpose  of  verifying  compliance  with
 48    phytosanitary  or  quarantine requirements; nursery stock certificate, for the
 49    purpose of verifying compliance with nursery inspection and pest freedom stan-
 50    dards; registration or certification tags and seals, for the purpose of  veri-
 51    fying compliance with registration or certification requirements.
                                                                        
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  1        (8)  "Certification"  means  the  official  act of affirming, declaring or
  2    verifying compliance with phytosanitary, quarantine, nursery inspection,  pest
  3    freedom, plant registration or any other set of legal requirements.
  4        (9)  "Compliance  agreement"  means any written agreement between a person
  5    and a duly authorized regulatory agency to achieve compliance with any set  of
  6    requirements being enforced by the agency.
  7        (10) "Control" means abatement, suppression, containment or eradication of
  8    a pest population.
  9        (11) "Control order" means a written directive from the director requiring
 10    the control of a pest.
 11        (12) "Conveyance" means a method of transportation.
 12        (13) "Crop  management  area"  means  that area in which certain specified
 13    crop management practices are required.
 14        (14) "Crop seed" means the seed or seedlike fruit of grain,  beans,  flax,
 15    beets,  onions  or  any  other crop whether or not it is intended for planting
 16    purposes.
 17        (15) "Department" means the Idaho state department of agriculture.
 18        (16) "Director" means the director of the Idaho state department of  agri-
 19    culture or his duly authorized representative.
 20        (17) "Economic  impacts" means significant damage or harm in terms of well
 21    documented:
 22        (a)  Plant or crop destruction or injury;
 23        (b)  Increased cultural or pest control costs;
 24        (c)  Disruption of existing pest control  strategies  such  as  biological
 25        control,  integrated pest management, sustainable agriculture or forestry,
 26        and cropping patterns or loss of a high value crop without replacement  by
 27        an equally valuable and marketable crop;
 28        (d)  Social adversities such as interference with home or urban gardening,
 29        human health, worker safety, food safety or jobs; or
 30        (e)  Environmental  quality  including  added  pesticide  use,  scenic and
 31        watershed damage, destruction of ecosystems and food chain interference.
 32        (18) "Economically unacceptable impact" means that level of  adverse  eco-
 33    nomic impact which is identified and defined for plants for planting by a duly
 34    authorized federal or state plant protection organization.
 35        (19) "Endangered  area"  means  continent, region, country, state, county,
 36    province, municipality or any other delineated political or otherwise lawfully
 37    constituted geographic area which has been officially identified  for  protec-
 38    tion from injurious pests not already present.
 39        (20) "Eradication" means elimination of a pest based on absence determined
 40    by a negative, mutually agreed upon verification survey for the target pest.
 41        (21) "Farm  product"  includes, but is not limited to, every agricultural,
 42    horticultural, viticultural, apicultural, floricultural and vegetable product,
 43    including honey bees.
 44        (22) "Free from" means that either a valid detection survey has been  per-
 45    formed  or  there is no published record showing that a specific pest is pres-
 46    ent; or that the article, nursery stock, plant, plant  product  or  any  other
 47    regulated  article  has  been  visually inspected or tested in accordance with
 48    specified requirements and that no live life stage of  the  regulated  pest(s)
 49    was found.
 50        (23) "Grain" means any crop seed intended for human or animal consumption.
 51        (24) "Hold  order or stop sale" means any written directive issued  by the
 52    director to a person who owns or  controls  any  appliance,  article,  nursery
 53    stock,  plant,  plant product or any other article that has been determined to
 54    be, or likely to be, infested with regulated pest(s) or otherwise not in  com-
 55    pliance with this chapter or rules promulgated hereunder, prohibiting movement
                                                                        
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  1    from one location to another, except as otherwise prescribed in the directive.
  2        (25) "Host" means any appliance, article, commodity, nursery stock, plant,
  3    plant  product or any other item which may or may not be capable of transport-
  4    ing a pest from one place to another.
  5        (26) "Infected" means a plant that has been determined by  the  department
  6    to  be  contaminated  with  an  infectious, transmissible, or contagious plant
  7    pest, or so exposed to the aforementioned that contamination can reasonably be
  8    expected to exist. This includes disease conditions, regardless of their  mode
  9    of  transmission,  or  any  disorder  of plants which manifest symptoms which,
 10    after investigation, are determined by a federal  or  state  plant  protection
 11    organization  to  be  characteristic  of  an infectious, transmissible or con-
 12    tagious disease.
 13        (27) "Infested" means a plant that has been determined by  the  department
 14    to  be  contaminated by a plant pest, or so exposed to the aforementioned that
 15    contamination can reasonably be expected to exist.
 16        (28) "Investigator" means any person duly authorized by  the  director  to
 17    perform any required regulatory activity.
 18        (29) "Limited  distribution" means a pest known to occur in the state, but
 19    with a limited distribution to a single small geographic area or a  few  small
 20    geographic areas which are widely separated within the state.
 21        (30) "Management  area"  means  that  area in which certain specified crop
 22    management practices are required.
 23        (31) "Mark" means, for  purposes  of  identification  or  separation,  the
 24    department  may affix a conspicuous official indicator to, on, around or near,
 25    plants or plant material known, or suspected to be, infected or infested  with
 26    a  plant  pest.  This  includes,  but is not limited to: paint, markers, tags,
 27    seals, stickers, tape, signs or placards.
 28        (32) "Move" means to ship, offer  for  shipment,  receive  for  transport,
 29    carry  or,  in  any  manner  whatsoever, relocate a regulated article from one
 30    place to another.
 31        (33) "Nursery stock" means all plants or any part thereof, such as aquatic
 32    or herbaceous plants, bulbs, sod, buds, corms, culms, roots,  scions,  grafts,
 33    cuttings, fruit pits, seeds of fruits, forest and ornamental trees and shrubs,
 34    berry  plants,  and all trees, shrubs, vines, and plants collected in the wild
 35    that are grown or kept for propagation or sale.  The  term  does  not  include
 36    field  and  forage crops, seeds of grasses, cereal grains, vegetable crops and
 37    flower crops, bulbs and tubers of vegetable crops, vegetable crops, vegetables
 38    or fruit used for food or feed, cut trees or cut flowers unless stems or other
 39    portions thereof are intended for propagation.
 40        (34) "Official" means authorized, implemented and directed,  or  performed
 41    by a government plant protection organization.
 42        (35) "Officially  controlled" means the conduct, by an official government
 43    plant protection organization, of eradication or intensive suppression  activ-
 44    ity  including various treatments, quarantine and other measures with the goal
 45    of eliminating an isolated infestation or prevention of further spread  within
 46    the  endangered  area. It does not include private general agricultural, urban
 47    forestry or home garden pest control measures  conducted  by  persons  against
 48    pests permanently established in an endangered area.
 49        (36) "Owner" means the person, with the legal right of possession, propri-
 50    etorship of, or responsibility for the property or place where any of the reg-
 51    ulated  articles as defined in this chapter are to be found, or the person who
 52    is in possession of, in proprietorship of, or has responsibility for the regu-
 53    lated articles.
 54        (37) "Pathway" means any natural or artificial means or avenue that allows
 55    for the movement of a pest from one area to another.
                                                                        
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  1        (38) "Permit" means any official document that allows the movement of  any
  2    regulated  article  from  one location to another in accordance with specified
  3    conditions or requirements and for a specified purpose.
  4        (39) "Person" means, but is not limited to, any  individual,  partnership,
  5    corporation,  company,  firm,  society,  association, organization, government
  6    agency or any other entity.
  7        (40) "Pest" means any insect, snail, rodent, nematode, fungus, virus, bac-
  8    terium, microorganism, mycoplasma-like organism,  weed,  plant,  or  parasitic
  9    higher  plant  and  any  other pest as defined by rule or any of the following
 10    that is known to cause damage or harm to agriculture or the environment:
 11        (a)  Any infectious, transmissible or contagious disease of any plant;  or
 12        any  disorder  of  any  plant  which manifests symptoms or behavior which,
 13        after investigation and hearing, is found and determined by a duly consti-
 14        tuted federal, state or local plant protection organization, to be charac-
 15        teristic of an infectious, transmissible or contagious disease;
 16        (b)  Any form of invertebrate animal life;
 17        (c)  Any form of plant life.
 18        (41) "Pest-free area" means an area kept free from a specific pest.
 19        (42) "Pest risk analysis" means characterizing the nature of  pest  hazard
 20    or  harm; identifying the degree of probability or likelihood of harm; analyz-
 21    ing the degree to which risk mitigation measures or strategies can reduce  the
 22    probability of harm to an acceptable level; and recommending pest risk mitiga-
 23    tion measures or strategies.
 24        (43) "Phytosanitary" means plant health.
 25        (44) "Phytosanitary  measures"  means  any  growing  season or postharvest
 26    treatment or any other method (tactic) or strategy (combination of methods  or
 27    tactics) specified in a quarantine to reduce pest risk to an acceptable level.
 28        (45) "Plant"  means  any part of a plant, tree, aquatic plant, plant prod-
 29    uct, plant material, shrub, vine, fruit, rhizome, sod, vegetable, seed,  bulb,
 30    stolon,  tuber,  corm,  pip,  cutting,  scion,  bud,  graft or fruit pit, also
 31    including:
 32        (a)  Agricultural commodities;
 33        (b)  Noncultivated or feral plants gathered from the environment;
 34        (c)  Plants produced by tissue culture, cloning or from stem cell cultures
 35        or other prepared media culture.
 36        (46) "Plants for planting" means any part of a plant that is  intended  to
 37    be planted.
 38        (47) "Preclearance"  means  an  agreement  between quarantine officials of
 39    exporting and importing states or countries to pass plants through  quarantine
 40    by  allowing the exporting state or country to inspect the plants preshipment,
 41    rather than the importing state or country inspecting the shipment upon  arri-
 42    val.
 43        (48) "Public nuisance" means any premises, plant, appliance, conveyance or
 44    article  which is infected or infested with any plant pest that may cause sig-
 45    nificant damage or harm, or premises where any plant pest is found.
 46        (49) "Quarantine" means a restriction imposed by a duly  authorized  plant
 47    regulatory  agency whereby the production, movement or existence of plants, or
 48    any other article or material, or the normal activity of persons,  is  brought
 49    under  regulation,  in  order that the introduction or spread of a pest may be
 50    prevented or limited, or in order that a pest already introduced may  be  con-
 51    trolled  or  eradicated, thereby reducing or avoiding losses that would other-
 52    wise occur through damage done by the pest or through continuing cost of  con-
 53    trol measures.
 54        (50) "Quarantine pest" means a pest of economically unacceptable impact to
 55    the  area  endangered  thereby  and  not yet present there, or present but not
                                                                        
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  1    widely distributed and being officially controlled.
  2        (51) "Registration" means the official recording of  a  growing  location,
  3    person,  plant,  sales location or any other item or place as one that has met
  4    specified requirements and therefore eligible for a particular activity, oper-
  5    ation or purpose.
  6        (52) "Regulated article" means any item the movement of which is  governed
  7    by a quarantine or any other rule.
  8        (53) "Regulated nonquarantine pest" means a nonquarantine pest whose pres-
  9    ence  affects  the  intended  use  of plants with an economically unacceptable
 10    impact.
 11        (54) "Regulated pest" means quarantine  pest  or  regulated  nonquarantine
 12    pest.
 13        (55) "Regulated  or  restricted  area"  means a geographical area in which
 14    special restrictions on the management of certain plant materials are imposed.
 15        (56) "Regulatory incident" means the detection of  a  pest  under  circum-
 16    stances which indicate the absence of establishment.
 17        (57) "Restrictive  measure"  means  a  phytosanitary measure allowing only
 18    specified actions that are subject to certain requirements.
 19        (58) "Shipment" means anything which is, may be, or has  been  transported
 20    from one place to another.
 21        (59) "Significant damage or harm" means that level of economic impact that
 22    results  in damage, injury or loss that exceeds the cost of control for a par-
 23    ticular crop.
 24        (60) "State plant regulatory official" means the employee(s) designated to
 25    enforce the provisions of a state's plant pest laws, quarantines and rules.
 26        (61) "State quarantine" means a rule promulgated pursuant to state author-
 27    ity that identifies a pest or pests and imposes requirements for certification
 28    of regulated articles as being in compliance with  specified  restrictions  or
 29    requirements for pest freedom.
 30        (62) "Suppressive   area"   means   a   plant  pest  infested  area  where
 31    phytosanitary measures are being applied to reduce the plant  pest  population
 32    and thereby limit the spread of the pest.
 33        (63) "Survey"  means  the  systematic  search for pests in accordance with
 34    mutually agreed upon methods designed to assure confidence  in  their  meaning
 35    and  accuracy  for  pest  prevention purposes such as control, verification of
 36    pest-free areas, identification of possible harm, evaluation of probability of
 37    harm, and taking appropriate actions to prevent  predicted  significant  harm.
 38    Surveys  may be performed for the purposes of detection, delimitation or veri-
 39    fication.
 40        (64) "Undesirable plant" means any plant species which is  detrimental  to
 41    the quality of the product of that crop, by competition, cross-pollination, or
 42    any other means to the production of the crop for which a crop management area
 43    was established.
                                                                        
 44        22-2006.  PROMULGATION OF RULES -- COLLECTION AND DEPOSIT OF FEES AND PEN-
 45    ALTIES. (1) The director is hereby authorized to promulgate rules:
 46        (a)  Necessary  for  the  efficient  enforcement of the provisions of this
 47        chapter including, but not limited to: setting of  quarantine  boundaries,
 48        requirements  for importing and exporting plant materials, planting, test-
 49        ing, sampling, inspection, certification, compliance  verification  proce-
 50        dures,  recordkeeping  procedures,  and  setting of a schedule of fees for
 51        services performed by the department in the administration of  this  chap-
 52        ter.
 53        (b)  To  implement  and  carry out the purposes of this chapter to control
 54        and prevent the spread of plant pests within the state and from within the
                                                                        
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  1        state to points outside the state.
  2        (c)  To regulate nonquarantine species, exempt species and federally quar-
  3        antined species.
  4        (2)  All revenues from fees and penalties collected  as  authorized  under
  5    this chapter shall be deposited to the agricultural department inspection fund
  6    created pursuant to section 22-105, Idaho Code.
                                                                        
  7        22-2007.  AUTHORITY  TO  CONDUCT  INSPECTIONS  -- ENTRY ON LANDS. (1)  The
  8    director may enter into each county of the state for the purpose  of  inspect-
  9    ing, examining and determining thereby the healthfulness and general condition
 10    of the environmental, horticultural, forestry and agricultural interests.
 11        (2)  In order to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, the director may
 12    enter upon and inspect any public or private premises, lands, or means of con-
 13    veyance,  or  article  of  any  person  within  this state, for the purpose of
 14    inspecting, surveying, treating, controlling or destroying any plant or  plant
 15    pest.
                                                                        
 16        22-2008.  DISCOVERY  OF  PLANT  PESTS  --  OFFICIAL MARKING OF INFESTED OR
 17    INFECTED ARTICLES -- REPORTING THE DETECTION OF PLANT PESTS. (1)  Upon  knowl-
 18    edge of the existence of a regulated pest or a pest that may cause significant
 19    damage or harm within the state, the department is authorized to conspicuously
 20    mark  all  plants, materials and articles known or suspected to be infected or
 21    infested with the pest. The department shall notify the person, owner  or  the
 22    tenant  in  possession of the premises or area in question of the existence of
 23    the pest and of the prescribed control  measures.  The  aforementioned  person
 24    shall,  within  the  prescribed  time  limit,  implement the conditions of the
 25    department's hold order or stop sale or be subject to civil penalties.
 26        (2)  The state plant regulatory  official  shall  immediately  report  the
 27    detection  of new plant pests within the state to the director and to the U.S.
 28    department of agriculture. Other state plant  regulatory  officials  shall  be
 29    notified as deemed necessary.
                                                                        
 30        22-2009.  HOLD  ORDER  OR STOP SALE. The director may issue hold orders or
 31    stop sales to take prompt regulatory action in plant pest emergencies  on  any
 32    plant,  article, or commodity entering this state in violation of this chapter
 33    or rules promulgated hereunder.
                                                                        
 34        22-2010.  CONTROL ORDERS -- CONTROL OF NUISANCES -- LIENS AND COST  RECOV-
 35    ERY. (1)  If upon any complaint or inspection, there is found any pest injuri-
 36    ous  to  plants, or an imminent potential threat of any pests injurious to any
 37    plants, the director shall notify the owner or the person in charge or in pos-
 38    session of such places, fields, plants or other articles. The  director  shall
 39    issue a control order requiring such owner or person to control said injurious
 40    pests  or to take such steps as may be necessary to remove the imminent poten-
 41    tial threat of pests within a reasonable time to  be  specified.  The  control
 42    order shall be served in person or in writing, or it may be served in the same
 43    manner  as  a  summons  in a civil action, on the owner or person owning or in
 44    charge or in possession of such  infested  places,  rights-of-way,  fields  or
 45    plants.
 46        (2)  If  the  owner or person in charge of any property on which there are
 47    plants or other articles infested with any pest thereof, or any article  known
 48    to  be  a  host of a pest, after having been issued a control order to control
 49    such pests or articles, shall fail, neglect or refuse to do so, then all  such
 50    property,  plants  and articles are declared to be a public nuisance and shall
 51    be proceeded against as such. When such nuisance shall exist on  any  property
                                                                        
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  1    within the state, the department shall cause such nuisance to be controlled at
  2    once by disinfecting or destroying the infested articles or host material. The
  3    expense of such proceedings shall be paid for by the state pursuant to section
  4    22-2019,  Idaho Code, subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this sec-
  5    tion.
  6        (3)  All sums so paid for carrying out the  provisions  of   this  section
  7    shall  be  a  legal charge against such property and if not paid within thirty
  8    (30)  days from the time when demand therefor is first made upon the owner  of
  9    such  property by the department controlling such nuisance, shall be certified
 10    by the said department to the tax collector of the county wherein the property
 11    is situated and thereafter shall constitute a lien upon such property and such
 12    sum shall be added by said tax collector to the general taxes assessed against
 13    said property which becomes due the next year thereafter  and  shall  be  col-
 14    lected  by  him  in  the same manner and with the same penalties as such other
 15    taxes. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to require  satis-
 16    faction  of the obligation imposed hereby in whole or in part from the sale of
 17    property or to bar the application of any other or additional remedy otherwise
 18    available. Amounts collected under this subsection  shall  be  paid  into  the
 19    state treasury and credited to the general fund.
                                                                        
 20        22-2011.  COMPENSATION FOR THE LOSS OR DESTRUCTION OF INFESTED OR INFECTED
 21    PLANTS,  PLANT  PRODUCTS OR OTHER ARTICLES. No damages shall be awarded to the
 22    owner for the loss or destruction of infested or infected plants, plant  prod-
 23    ucts, or other articles, or any reimbursement made for expenses incurred inci-
 24    dent  to  the  application  of the prescribed preventive or remedial measures,
 25    unless specifically appropriated by the Idaho  state  legislature.  Under  the
 26    provisions  of this chapter the infected or infested plants, plant products or
 27    articles are considered to be a public nuisance.
                                                                        
 28        22-2012.  QUARANTINES. The director, by and with the approval of the  gov-
 29    ernor,  may, after investigations or hearings, establish, maintain and enforce
 30    quarantines as the director deems necessary to  protect  any  and  all  plants
 31    against  infestation  or infection by any plant pest, new to or not heretofore
 32    widely prevalent or distributed within or throughout the state of Idaho. Quar-
 33    antine rules issued under this chapter shall be promulgated in accordance with
 34    chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code.
                                                                        
 35        22-2013.  QUARANTINE RULES -- REGULATED AREAS AND  ARTICLES  --  TEMPORARY
 36    RULES.  The  director may promulgate quarantine rules, whereby the production,
 37    movement or existence of plants, or any other article or material, or the nor-
 38    mal activity of persons, is brought under rules, in order that  the  introduc-
 39    tion or spread of a plant pest may be prevented or limited, or in order that a
 40    plant  pest  already introduced may be officially controlled, thereby reducing
 41    or avoiding an economic impact that would otherwise occur through damage  done
 42    by the pest or through continuing cost of control measures.
 43        (1)  Federal  quarantine. The department may enter into cooperative agree-
 44    ments with the U.S. department of agriculture, and other federal, state,  city
 45    or  county  agencies  to assist in the enforcement of federal quarantines. The
 46    department may establish a quarantine and promulgate a rule  against  a  plant
 47    pest or an area not covered by a federal quarantine. The department may seize,
 48    destroy or require treatment of products moved from a federally regulated area
 49    if  they were not moved in accordance with the federal quarantine rules or, if
 50    certified, they were found to be infested with the plant pest.
 51        (2)  State plant quarantines:
 52        (a)  State interior quarantine. The department may establish a  quarantine
                                                                        
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  1        against  a  plant  pest  that  is  not of quarantine significance to other
  2        states, to prevent the spread of the plant pest  within  its  borders;  or
  3        establish  a  quarantine against a plant pest of regional or national sig-
  4        nificance when no federal quarantine has been established.
  5        (b)  Parallel state interior quarantine. The department  may  establish  a
  6        parallel  state  interior quarantine against a plant pest which is of lim-
  7        ited distribution in the state and is the subject of a federal quarantine.
  8        The quarantine  regulates  intrastate  movement  between  quarantined  and
  9        nonquarantined  areas  of the state. This quarantine action is required if
 10        the federal quarantine is to apply only to the  infested  portion  of  the
 11        state.
 12        (c)  Uniform  state  quarantine.  The  department  may establish a uniform
 13        state quarantine with  other  infested  states  which  are  parallel  with
 14        respect  to their basic quarantine requirements. The regulated area in the
 15        uniform state quarantine shall describe the  area  to  be  regulated.  The
 16        quarantine  shall  include  a  reference  to  regulated  areas  of all the
 17        infested states under the uniform state quarantine. When a plant  pest  of
 18        regional  or  national  significance  occurs  only in limited areas of the
 19        state and no federal quarantine is established, a state  interior  quaran-
 20        tine shall be established.
 21        (d)  Standard  state  exterior  quarantine. The department may establish a
 22        standard state exterior quarantine if the plant pest is not established in
 23        the state but is established in other states and no federal quarantine has
 24        been established. The department may require controls at origin or  desti-
 25        nation  as  are  necessary to provide protection for Idaho industries, the
 26        public and the environment.
 27        (3)  Regulated areas. The regulated area to  be  described  in  quarantine
 28    rules  may involve the entire state, portion of the state (areas) or a list of
 29    locations of infested properties:
 30        (a)  Regulated areas may be  subdivided  into  suppressive  and  generally
 31        infested  areas  where  it  is desirable to augment control measures being
 32        applied in certain areas, and it is believed necessary to control movement
 33        into such areas from generally infested areas.
 34        (b)  Provisions in the quarantine rules may be made for adding to the reg-
 35        ulated area any other area known to be infested, or which is found  to  be
 36        infested  after  establishment  of the quarantine, when so declared by the
 37        director.
 38        (c)  When an infestation in a certain regulated area has  been  eliminated
 39        through the application of treatments, to the extent that movements of the
 40        regulated  articles  therefrom  would  no  longer present a pest risk, the
 41        quarantine may be lifted. Provided, a hold order shall be issued  to  each
 42        owner  of  any remaining infested property in the aforementioned regulated
 43        area.
 44        (4)  Movement of regulated articles:
 45        (a)  Interstate shipments:
 46             (i)   Any regulated article that is prohibited interstate movement or
 47             is required to be certified, if moved interstate from an  area  regu-
 48             lated  by  a state or federal quarantine, shall be refused entry into
 49             the state.
 50             (ii)  The owner or carrier of regulated articles that are  reportedly
 51             originating in nonregulated areas of a quarantined state must provide
 52             proof of origin of the regulated articles through an invoice, waybill
 53             or other shipping document.
 54             (iii) If  only a portion of a state is under a state or federal quar-
 55             antine, the shipment will not be refused nor a  certificate  required
                                                                        
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  1             if  the  article  originates from a nonregulated area of the shipping
  2             state, unless the article is found to be infested or prohibited.
  3        (b)  Intrastate shipments:
  4             (i)   Certificates or  permits  are  required  for  the  movement  of
  5             nonexempted regulated articles when:
  6                  1.  Moving from a regulated area to any point outside thereof.
  7                  2.  Moving  from  a  generally  infested area into a suppressive
  8                  area.
  9                  3.  Moving within a suppressive area  where  such  control  over
 10                  this movement is desirable.
 11             (ii)  Certificates  or  permits  should not be required for any regu-
 12             lated article originating outside  of  a  regulated  area  moving  to
 13             another nonregulated area, or moving through or reshipped from a reg-
 14             ulated  area when the point of origin of the article is clearly indi-
 15             cated on a waybill, bill of lading, shipper's invoice or other  simi-
 16             lar  document  accompanying  the  shipment,  provided  that shipments
 17             moving through or being reshipped from a regulated area must be safe-
 18             guarded against infestation while within the regulated area in a man-
 19             ner satisfactory to an investigator.
 20             (iii) Certificates should not be issued unless  provisions  of  other
 21             applicable quarantines have been met and the regulated articles:
 22                  1.  Originate in a noninfested portion of the regulated area and
 23                  have  not been exposed to infestation while within the regulated
 24                  area; or
 25                  2.  Have been examined and found to be free of infestation; or
 26                  3.  Have been treated in accordance with procedures approved  by
 27                  the director; or
 28                  4.  Have  been  grown, produced, manufactured, stored or handled
 29                  in such a manner that, in the judgment of the  investigator,  no
 30                  infestation would be transmitted thereby.
 31             (iv)  Limited  permits  may  be issued to allow the movement of regu-
 32             lated articles to a specified destination for limited handling,  uti-
 33             lization,  or  processing,  provided  the investigator has determined
 34             that such movement will not result in the  spread  of  the  pest  and
 35             requirements of other quarantines have been met.
 36             (v)   Control  over  the movement of regulated articles from infested
 37             areas to noninfested areas within a regulated area  may  be  provided
 38             for  when  such  control  over  movement  within  a regulated area is
 39             desired to prevent the spread of plant pests. This provision  usually
 40             will  be  applicable  only  when officially controlled treatments are
 41             being applied and would be handled through a direct written notice to
 42             the property owner concerned.
 43             (vi)  Compliance agreements should be required as  a  basis  for  the
 44             issuance  of  certificates  or  permits in bulk to industry for their
 45             issuance, and they are desirable to explain the  main  provisions  of
 46             the quarantine for that particular concern.
 47        (5)  Temporary rules. The department may promulgate temporary rules pursu-
 48    ant to chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code, in order to take immediate regulatory
 49    action to prevent the introduction or establishment of a plant pest.
                                                                        
 50        22-2014.  REPEAL OF QUARANTINES. The director, by and with the approval of
 51    the  governor,  may  repeal  a  quarantine  when its purposes have been accom-
 52    plished, or if the progress of events has clearly proved that the desired  end
 53    is not possible to attain by the restrictions adopted. The quarantine shall be
 54    promptly  reconsidered,  either with a review or repeal or with intent of sub-
                                                                        
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  1    stituting other measures.  Before any such repeal of a quarantine shall become
  2    effective, the same shall be approved by the governor and shall be  signed  in
  3    duplicate  by  him,  and one (1)  copy thereof shall be filed in the office of
  4    the secretary of state and the other in the office of the director. Quarantine
  5    rules issued under this chapter must be repealed in  accordance  with  chapter
  6    52, title 67, Idaho Code.
                                                                        
  7        22-2015.  LISTING  OF  REGULATED  NONQUARANTINE  PESTS AND RESTRICTIONS BY
  8    RULES. The director may promulgate rules listing regulated nonquarantine pests
  9    and specify restrictions for specific plant pests with  a  specified  economi-
 10    cally unacceptable impact to Idaho agriculture.
                                                                        
 11        22-2016.   PROHIBITED ACTIVITY -- PERMITS -- EXPORT CERTIFICATION AND COM-
 12    PLIANCE  AGREEMENTS  --  NONINDIGENOUS  PLANT  PEST SPECIES. (1) The shipment,
 13    introduction into or release within this state of any plant  pest,  biocontrol
 14    agent,  or  genetically  engineered plant or plant pest, or any other organism
 15    which may directly or indirectly affect the plant life of  this  state  as  an
 16    injurious  pest, parasite or predator of other organisms, or any arthropod, is
 17    prohibited, except under permit issued by the department, or  as  exempted  by
 18    rule.
 19        (2)  Permits:
 20        (a)  Permits  for  shipment  of plant pests. No person may sell, offer for
 21        sale, move, convey, transport, deliver, ship or offer  for  shipment,  any
 22        plant  pest or biological control agent, without an application and permit
 23        to move live plant pests and noxious  weeds,  PPQ  Form  526,  supplements
 24        thereto, published by the U.S. department of agriculture, animal and plant
 25        health  inspection service, plant protection and quarantine, or any publi-
 26        cation revising or superseding the aforementioned, or  its  state  equiva-
 27        lent.  Permits  may  be issued only after the director determines that the
 28        proposed shipment or use will not create a  hazard  to  the  agricultural,
 29        forest  or horticultural interests of this state or to the state's general
 30        environmental quality. The permit shall be affixed  conspicuously  and  on
 31        the  exterior  of  each  shipping  container,  box, package, appliance, or
 32        accompany each shipping container,  box,  package  or  appliance,  as  the
 33        director requires.
 34        (b)  Biotechnology permits. The director may enter into cooperative agree-
 35        ments  with  the  U.S.  department of agriculture to provide oversight and
 36        regulation of genetically engineered plants or any organism that may be  a
 37        plant  pest.  This  includes  reviewing  U.S.  department  of  agriculture
 38        biotechnology notifications and permits, inspection of facilities conduct-
 39        ing agricultural biotechnology and field release sites.
 40        (c)  Interstate  origin  inspection  and  preclearance permits (compliance
 41        agreements). The director may issue  permits  for  interstate  origin  and
 42        preclearance  of quarantine articles based on pest risk mitigation tactics
 43        or strategies that can be enforced at the point of origin of the shipment.
 44        Interstate origin inspection programs can be developed to achieve  compli-
 45        ance  with  quarantine restrictions, regulated nonquarantine pest restric-
 46        tions and product quality standards.
 47        (3)  Export certification and compliance agreements. The director has  the
 48    authority  to  enter  into compliance agreements for the purpose of certifying
 49    articles as pest free for export certification.
 50        (4)  A nonindigenous plant pest species known or not known to occur in the
 51    state of Idaho may not be granted entry into the state unless issued a written
 52    permit by the director. Permits shall contain such conditions and measures  as
 53    the  director  may see fit to prevent the species from becoming established or
                                                                        
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  1    further established within the state.
                                                                        
  2        22-2017.  CROP MANAGEMENT AREAS. The legislature recognizes the fact  that
  3    in  order to produce crops that are free from plant pests, and to control such
  4    plant pests, it is frequently necessary to apply certain crop management prac-
  5    tices over an area which may include several  farms,  orchards,  nurseries  or
  6    other crop producing entities. Such practices may include, but are not limited
  7    to,  use  of clean seed, destruction of infested or undesirable plants, use of
  8    chemicals and prohibiting introduction of host materials. The legislature fur-
  9    ther recognizes that it is in the public interest that the director be  autho-
 10    rized  to  designate  certain  areas as crop management areas and to stipulate
 11    those practices which shall be followed in the management area insofar as they
 12    affect the particular crop.
 13        (1)  The director may provide for establishment of a crop management  area
 14    after  presentation  of  a  petition  signed  by  not  less  than  twenty-five
 15    (25)  registered  electors  residing  within the confines of the proposed crop
 16    management area. The petitioners shall give the petition to the  county  clerk
 17    of  the  county  or  counties who shall examine the signatures and certify the
 18    number of valid signatures of electors residing within  the  confines  of  the
 19    proposed  crop  management area and transmit the petition to the director. The
 20    director may establish a crop management area within the boundaries  specified
 21    in  the petition. The director may make and enforce rules to maintain the man-
 22    agement area. Rules may include, but shall not be limited to:
 23        (a)  Specification of the kind and quality of seed  or  other  propagative
 24        material which may be planted in the area;
 25        (b)  Specification  of  treatments,  chemical or otherwise, which shall be
 26        used to control pests or undesirable plants in the area;
 27        (c)  Transportation of vegetative material into,  within  or  out  of  the
 28        area;
 29        (d)  Disposition  of  infested crops, undesirable plants or other material
 30        which may include destruction of the crops, plants or other material;
 31        (e)  Disposition of vegetative material planted in violation of the rules.
 32        (2)  Disposition of infested or violative material in  a  crop  management
 33    area shall be at the expense of the owner thereof.
                                                                        
 34        22-2018.  RESEARCH  AND  INVESTIGATION OF PLANT PEST PROBLEMS AND CONTROL.
 35    As deemed necessary, the director may fund research to prevent  the  introduc-
 36    tion or spread of plant pests causing or having the potential to cause signif-
 37    icant damage or harm in the state, and to investigate the feasibility of their
 38    control.
                                                                        
 39        22-2019.  INFESTATIONS  --  PEST  CONTROL  COSTS -- DEFICIENCY WARRANTS --
 40    COOPERATION WITH OTHER LANDOWNERS. Whenever the director determines that there
 41    exists the threat of an infestation of grasshoppers, crickets or  other  plant
 42    pests  on  state-owned land, private, range or agricultural land, and that the
 43    infestation is of such a character as to be a menace to state, private,  range
 44    or  agricultural  land,  the director may declare the existence of an infesta-
 45    tion.  Thereupon, the director shall have the power to go upon the state-owned
 46    land, private, range or agricultural land within the infested area, and  shall
 47    cause  the  pest  infestation  to be controlled, using such funds as have been
 48    appropriated or may hereafter be made available for  such  purposes.  Provided
 49    however,  that whenever the cost of control of grasshoppers, crickets or other
 50    plant pests on state-owned land, private, range or agricultural  land  exceeds
 51    the  funds  appropriated  or  otherwise  available for that purpose, the state
 52    board of examiners may authorize the issuance of deficiency  warrants  against
                                                                        
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  1    the general fund account for up to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) in
  2    any  one (1) year for such survey, detection and control. The director in exe-
  3    cuting the provisions of this chapter insofar as  it  relates  to  state-owned
  4    land, private, range or agricultural land, shall have the authority to cooper-
  5    ate with federal, state, county, municipal and private landowners in pest con-
  6    trol  projects;  provided,  that the state funds shall only be used to pay the
  7    state's pro rata share based on acreage of state-owned land, private, range or
  8    agricultural land treated. Such moneys as the state shall thus  become  liable
  9    for shall be paid out of appropriations which shall be made by the legislature
 10    for that purpose.
                                                                        
 11        22-2020.  PENALTIES  FOR VIOLATIONS. (1)  Any person who violates any pro-
 12    vision of this chapter, or of the rules promulgated hereunder for carrying out
 13    the provisions of this chapter, or who fails or refuses  to  comply  with  any
 14    requirements  herein  specified,  or  who  interferes with the department, its
 15    agents or employees, in the execution, or on account of the execution  of  its
 16    or  their  duties  under this chapter or rules promulgated hereunder, shall be
 17    guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined  not  more
 18    than  three  thousand  dollars ($3,000)  or be imprisoned in a county jail for
 19    not more than twelve (12)  months or be subject to both such fine and  impris-
 20    onment.
 21        (2)  Any person who violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions
 22    of  this  chapter  or  any rules promulgated hereunder may be assessed a civil
 23    penalty by the department or its duly authorized agent of not  more  than  ten
 24    thousand  dollars  ($10,000)  for each offense and shall be liable for reason-
 25    able attorney's fees.
 26        (a)  Assessment of a civil penalty may be made  in  conjunction  with  any
 27        other department administrative action.
 28        (b)  No  civil penalty may be assessed unless the person charged was given
 29        notice and opportunity for a hearing pursuant to the Idaho  administrative
 30        procedure act.
 31        (c)  If  the department is unable to collect such penalty or if any person
 32        fails to pay all or a set portion of the civil penalty  as  determined  by
 33        the  department,  it  may recover such amount by action in the appropriate
 34        district court.
 35        (d)  Any person against whom the department has assessed a  civil  penalty
 36        under  the provisions of this section may, within thirty (30)  days of the
 37        final action by the agency making the assessment, appeal the assessment to
 38        the district court of the county in which the violation is alleged by  the
 39        department to have occurred.
 40        (e)  All  civil  penalties  collected  pursuant  to  this section shall be
 41        remitted to the agricultural department inspection fund.
 42        (3)  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the  director
 43    to  report  minor  violations for prosecution when he believes that the public
 44    interest will be best served by  suitable  warnings  or  other  administrative
 45    action.
                                                                        
 46        22-2021.  COOPERATION  WITH  OTHER  JURISDICTIONS. (1)  The department may
 47    enter into cooperative agreements with organizations including, but  not  lim-
 48    ited to: persons, civic groups, or governmental agencies, to adopt and execute
 49    plans  to detect and control areas infested or infected with plant pests. Such
 50    cooperative agreements may include provisions of joint funding of any  control
 51    treatment.
 52        (2)  If  a  plant pest occurs and cannot be adequately controlled by indi-
 53    vidual person(s), owner(s),  tenant(s)  or  local  units  of  government,  the
                                                                        
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  1    department  may  conduct  the necessary control measures independently or on a
  2    cooperative basis with federal or other units of government.
                                                                        
  3        22-2022.  SEVERABILITY. If any section, sentence, clause, phrase, or other
  4    portion of this chapter is for any reason held  to  be  unconstitutional,  the
  5    decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof.
                                                                        
  6        22-2023.  NO  EFFECT  ON EXISTING LIABILITY. The enactment of this chapter
  7    does not terminate or modify any civil or criminal liability relating to plant
  8    pests which exists prior to the effective date of this chapter.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact


                          STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

                              RS 11481C1

This legislation will repeal five plant pest regulatory laws in an 
effort to eliminate duplication and inconsistencies and to combine 
the common provisions of those laws into one comprehensive Plant Pest 
Law which is modeled after the Plant Pest Law developed by the 
National Plant Board.  The five laws to be repealed are: 

1. Title 22, Chapter 10. Crop Management Areas, Idaho Code
2. Title 22, Chapter 19. Horticultural and Nursery Inspection, Idaho 
Code 
3. Title 22, Chapter 20. Quarantines, Idaho Code 
4. Title 22, Chapter 21. Plant Pest Control and Research Commission, 
Idaho Code           
5. Title 22, Chapter 44. Green Peach Aphids Eradication, Idaho Code 
The authority, definitions, procedures and penalties differ, and in 
some instances, may even be in conflict between the five laws.  Some 
definitions are in conflict with those used by the USDA and 
International Plant Protection Convention.  A procedure for the 
establishment of quarantines is provided.  The five plant pest 
regulatory laws lack a blanket authority to keep exotic pests out of 
the state. Currently, to prevent the introduction of exotic plant 
pests,it is necessary to establish quarantine rules for each 
individual pest.  



                         FISCAL IMPACT

This is primarily a housekeeping measure.  There will be no new 
fiscal impact.  There are several existing budgeted programs under 
the existing code to be repealed that will continue unchanged under 
the new consolidated law.

CONTACT
Name:  Dr. Roger Vega, Administrator
Michael E. Cooper, Bureau Chief
Agency:     Agriculture, Dept. of
Phone: 332-8620

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