DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

PESTICIDE AND PLANT PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT DIVISION

REGULATION NO. 620. QUARANTINE

(By authority of section 23 of Act No. 189 of the Public Acts of 1931 and section 6 of

Act No. 72 of the Public Acts of 1945, being SS286.223 and 286.256 of the Michigan

Compiled Laws)

R 285.620.1 Quarantine; purpose.

Rule 1. (1) The director of agriculture when he shall find that there exists in any state,

territory, or district or part thereof any

infestation with reference to which the secretary of agriculture of the United States

has not established a quarantine may promulgate and enforce by this rule

dangerous insect pest or plant disease

a

quarantine prohibiting or restricting the transportation into, within, or through the state,

or any portion thereof, from such other state, territory, or district, of any class of

nursery stock, plant, fruit, seed, or other article of any character whatsoever,

capable of carrying such plant disease or insect infestation.

(2) A quarantine shall recite the following:

(a) The dangerous plant pest involved by common name or scientific name, or both.

(b) Definitions of the terms used.

(c) The quarantined or regulated area by naming the state, territory, or district, or

designated portions thereof, by recognized

description.

political subdivisions or legal land

(d) The classes or names of the nursery stock, plants, fruits, seeds, or other articles of

any character, the movement of which is prohibited or restricted into or within

Michigan.

(e) Any treatment, certification, or other action or condition that will permit the

movement of restricted articles into or within this state from the quarantined area.

(f) Conditions of seizure, treatment, or destruction of prohibited or restricted articles

moving into or within this state in violation of the quarantine or the return of such

articles to the quarantined area.

History: 1979 AC.

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