(a)  No collected plants shall be transported within this state or placed in any nursery or in close proximity to any certified nursery stock unless they have first been inspected and found to be apparently free of injurious insects and plant disease. Inspection of collected plant stock shall be made after digging or removal from the native habitat, and shall be made in a place designated by the director.

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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-16

  • Collected plants: means plants and plant parts defined as nursery stock, which are dug or otherwise removed from fields, woodlots, or forest lands for sale or distribution which have not been grown under cultivation in a nursery for one year. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
  • Director: means the director of environmental management of the state of Rhode Island, and his or her authorized agents. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
  • Nursery: means any grounds or premises on or in which nursery stock is propagated, grown, or cultivated, or from which nursery stock is collected for sale purposes. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
  • Nursery stock: means all hardy, deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs, vines and other plants having a persistent woody stem, whether wild or cultivated, and plant parts, for and capable of propagation. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
  • Plant disease: means an injurious physiological activity of plants caused by the continued action of a chief causal factor and exhibited through abnormal cellular activity expressed in characteristic conditions, called symptoms, which symptoms are of three (3) types, nocrosis, hyperplasia, and hypoplasia. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2

(b)  The director may require that all collected stock be labelled as collected stock until the plants have been grown under cultivation in a nursery for one calendar year.

History of Section.
G.L. 1956, § 2-18.1-16, as assigned, P.L. 1962, ch. 132, § 1.