Arizona Laws 3-209. Quarantines; notice to common carriers; duty to hold for inspection; certificate of release; inspection
A. When the director believes the importation from designated countries, states or localities of specified varieties of plants, fruits, vegetables, seeds, soil or agricultural or horticultural products is dangerous to this state or to the agricultural or horticultural industry of this state because of the likelihood of infestation with crop pests or diseases, the director may declare a quarantine against all varieties from those places. Common carriers shall be immediately notified of the declaration of quarantine and are prohibited from transporting quarantined products or pests and diseases associated with the quarantined products from the designated places into the state.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 3-209
- Associate director: means the associate director of the division. See Arizona Laws 3-201
- crop: includes every kind of vegetation, wild or domesticated, and any part thereof, as well as seed, fruit or other natural product of such vegetation. See Arizona Laws 3-201
- Diseases: includes any fungus, bacterium, virus or other organism of any kind and any unknown cause that is or may be found to be injurious, or likely to be or to become injurious to any domesticated or cultivated plant, or to the product of any such plant. See Arizona Laws 3-201
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Pests: includes all noxious weeds, insects, diseases, mites, spiders, nematodes and other animal or plant organisms found injurious, or likely to be or to become injurious, to any domesticated, cultivated, native or wild plant, or to the product of any such plant. See Arizona Laws 3-201
- Shipment: includes anything that is brought into the state or that is transported within the state and that may be the host or may contain or carry or may be susceptible of containing, carrying or having present on, in or about it any plant pest or plant disease. See Arizona Laws 3-201
B. Any person who brings or causes to be brought into the state plants, fruits, vegetables or agricultural or horticultural products is subject to either of the following procedures:
1. The inspector may issue a certificate of release to the person at a properly signed border inspection station.
2. The inspector may instruct the person, at a properly signed border inspection station, to hold the shipment at the place where it is to be received, without unnecessarily moving or placing it where it may be harmful, for immediate inspection of the inspector, and shall not deliver the shipment to the person entitled to it until furnished with a certificate of release by the inspector.
C. If a person does not obtain a certificate of release as prescribed by subsection B, the person shall, immediately after arrival in this state, notify the inspector of the place where the shipment will be received, and hold it, without unnecessarily moving or placing it where it may be harmful for immediate inspection of the inspector, and shall not deliver the shipment to the person entitled to it until furnished with a certificate of release by the inspector.
D. The director, the associate director or the inspector may enter into any place where the products are received, as described in subsection C, for the purpose of making the investigation or examination.