The following terms as used in this chapter shall mean:

(1) Commission: The State Crop Pest Commission, as designated by the Board of Trustees of Clemson University, or any officer or employee of the commission to whom authority to act in its stead has been or hereafter may be delegated.

(2) Pest: Anthonomus grandis Boheman, boll weevil in any stage of development.

(3) Host: Any plant or plant product upon which a pest is dependent for completion of any portion of its life cycle.

(4) Infested: Actually infested or infected with a pest or so exposed to infestation that it would be reasonable to believe that an infestation exists.

(5) Person: Any individual, corporation, company, society, association or other business entity.

(6) Move: To ship, offer for shipment, receive for transportation, carry or otherwise transport, move or allow to be moved.

(7) Regulated article: Any article of any character as described in the quarantine carrying or capable of carrying the plant pest against which the quarantine is directed.

(8) Certificate: A document issued or authorized by the commission indicating that a regulated article is not contaminated with a pest.

(9) Permit: A document issued or authorized by the commission to provide for the movement of regulated articles to restricted destinations for limited handling, utilization or processing.

(10) Commercial Cotton Producer: Any person who grew cotton and received direct income from the sale of the crop during the year preceding the referendum provided for in Section 46-10-120 as certified by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.

(11) Director: The Director, Division of Regulatory and Public Service Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences, Clemson University.

(12) Division: The Division of Regulatory and Public Service Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences, Clemson University.

HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 1; 1982 Act No. 281, Section 1; 1983 Act No. 36 Sections 1, 2.