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Notice: 14489683

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES

Division:

Division of Plant Industry

Chapter:

CITRUS NURSERY STOCK CERTIFICATION PROGRAM

Overview

RULE:

5B-62.001	Definitions and Purpose
5B-62.002	Purpose (Repealed)
5B-62.003	Plant Pest Declaration
5B-62.004	Manuals
5B-62.005	Forms
5B-62.006	Citrus Budwood Technical Advisory Committee
5B-62.007	Citrus Nursery Stock Certification Program
5B-62.008	Requirements for Citrus Nursery Site Approval
5B-62.009	Requirements for Citrus Nursery Sanitation
5B-62.010	Requirements for Citrus Nursery Structure
5B-62.011	Requirements for Citrus Propagation
5B-62.012	Source Trees
5B-62.013	Parent Trees
5B-62.014	Foundation Trees
5B-62.015	Scion Trees
5B-62.016	Increase Trees
5B-62.017	Source Tree Registration Certificate
5B-62.018	Procedure for Identifying and Recording Commercial Citrus Nursery Stock
5B-62.019	Inter- or Intra-Nursery Movement of Plant Material
5B-62.020	Retail Sales
5B-62.021	Requirements for Soil Pit Approval
5B-62.022	Requirements for Utility and Road Construction
5B-62.023	Stop-Sale Notice and Hold Order
5B-62.024	Release from Quarantine or Withdrawal of Stop-Sale Notice and Hold Order
5B-62.025	Fees
5B-62.026	Citrus Produced for Research Purposes
5B-62.027	Exemptions
5B-62.028	Citrus Seed
5B-62.029	Micropropagation of Citrus Rootstocks and Plants

PURPOSE:

The purpose of these amendments is to clarify the requirements for the propagation and delivery of citrus and closely related plants that are produced for distribution.  The effect is to have up-to-date requirements that allow for the propagation of citrus and closely related genera that are free from pests and diseases and are of superior horticultural quality.

SUMMARY:

The requirements for Citrus Stock Certification Program participation are established in this chapter. It is intended that there shall be no propagation of citrus nursery stock except as provided in this chapter, and it shall be unlawful to plant citrus nursery stock in Florida unless that citrus nursery stock has been propagated pursuant to this chapter.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

570.07(23), 581.031(1), (3), (8), 581.1843(3), (4), F.S.

LAW:

570.07(2), (13), 570.0705, 581.031(1), (14), (17), (23), 581.1843(3), (4), FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

4/25/2014 Vol. 40/81

COMMENTS:

From 4/25/2014 To 5/16/2014 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

No reference(s).

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