North Dakota § 4.1-23-01 Definitions

North Dakota Statutes

§ 4.1-23-01 — Definitions

North Dakota § 4.1-23-01

Title 4.1Agriculture

Ch. 4.1-23Plant Pests

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N.D. Cent. Code § 4.1-23-01 (2026).

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In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:

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 iss

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In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
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.