§ 2-3-50.3 — Definitions.

As used in the Boll Weevil Eradication Act: 1. "Board of directors" means the board of directors of the Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication Organization elected pursuant to the provisions of the Boll Weevil Eradication Act; 2. "Boll weevil" means the insect Anthonomus grandis Boheman, in any stage of development, including the egg, larval, pupal and adult stages; 3. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry or designee; 4. "Cotton" means a cotton plant or any part of it including bolls, stalk, flowers, root, or leaves or cotton products such as seed cotton, cottonseed, and hulls; 5. "Eligible cotton grower" means any person actively engaged in the production of cotton either currently or in any two (2) of the three (3) years immediately preceding the calling of an election or a referendum; 6. "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry; 7. “Eradicated area” means an area free of boll weevil; 8. "Host" means any plant or plant product in which the boll weevil is capable of completing any portion of its life cycle; 9. "Infested" means the presence of the boll weevil in any life stage or the existence of circumstances that make it reasonable to believe that the boll weevil is present; 10. "Organization" means the Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication Organization established pursuant to the provisions of the Boll Weevil Eradication Act; 11. "Regulated article" means any article carrying or capable of carrying the boll weevil, including but not limited to cotton plants, seed cotton, gin trash, other hosts, or cotton harvesting equipment; and 12. “Quarantined area” means any area or part of the state designated as quarantined by the State Board of Agriculture at the request of the Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication Organization.

Legislative History

Added by Laws 1993, c. 198, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 211, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.