North Dakota Code 4.1-23-01 – Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 4.1-23-01
- Commissioner: means the agriculture commissioner or the designee or authorized representative of the commissioner. See North Dakota Code 4.1-01-01
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
1. “Certificate” means a document issued or authorized by the commissioner indicating a regulated article is not contaminated with a pest.
2. “Commissioner” means the agriculture commissioner or the commissioner’s authorized representative.
3. “Host” means any plant or plant product upon which a pest is dependent for completion of any portion of its life cycle.
4. “Infested” means infected with a quantity of pests or so exposed to a quantity of pests that it would be reasonable to believe that potential for harm or threat to the health of the host exists.
5. “Move” means to ship, offer for shipment, receive for transportation, carry, or otherwise transport, or allow to be transported.
6. “Permit” means a document issued or authorized by the commissioner to provide for the movement of regulated articles to restricted destinations for limited handling, utilization, or processing.
7. “Person” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, company, society, or association, or other business entity.
8. “Pest” means any invertebrate animal, pathogen, parasitic plant, or similar organism that can cause damage to a plant or part of a plant or any processed, manufactured, or other product of plants.
9. “Phytosanitary certificate” means an international document issued or authorized by the commissioner stating that a plant or plant product is considered free from quarantine pests and practically free from injurious pests and that the plant or plant product is considered to conform with the current phytosanitary regulations of the importing country.
10. “Plant” means any part of a plant, tree, aquatic plant, plant product, plant material, shrub, vine, fruit, rhizome, vegetable, seed, bulb, stolon, tuber, corm, pip, cutting, scion, bud, graft, fruit pit, or agricultural commodity.
11. “Regulated article” means any article of any character as described in a quarantine carrying or capable of carrying the plant pest against which the quarantine is directed.