DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

PESTICIDE AND PLANT PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT DIVISION

REGULATION NO. 612. YELLOW RED VIROSIS

(By authority of Act No. 72 of the Public Acts of 1945, being S286.251 et seq. of the

Michigan Compiled Laws)

R 285.612.1 Chokecherries declared public nuisance.

Rule 1. (1) In order to prevent the further introduction and spread of peach "X"

disease (yellow red virosis) a serious contagious virus disease of chokecherries (Prunus

virginiana) and peach and cherry trees, it is hereby necessary to order and declare

chokecherries (Prunus virginiana) to be a public nuisance. Planting, possessing, growing,

propagating, selling, or offering for sale plants, roots, or cuttings of chokecherries

within distances of 500 feet of peach or cherry orchards and 1,000 feet of peach or

cherry nursery stock is hereby prohibited, and any such plants now growing within

the said distances must be eradicated.

(2) Any roots, cuttings, or plants now planted or growing within the said distances

of peach or cherry orchards and peach or cherry nursery stock may be ordered

destroyed by the director of agriculture or his inspectors.

History: 1979 AC.

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