The director may treat, spray, control, suppress or eradicate noxious weeds, crop pests or diseases through a countywide, area-wide or statewide program or programs that have been approved or authorized by the department. If such countywide, area-wide or statewide program or programs affect cotton, the program or programs must also be approved by the cotton research and protection council. The director may take whatever actions that are necessary to assist, support or enforce such programs including entering any fields to treat, spray, control, suppress or eradicate noxious weeds, crop pests or diseases under these authorized or approved programs.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 3-205.01

  • crop: includes every kind of vegetation, wild or domesticated, and any part thereof, as well as seed, fruit or other natural product of such vegetation. See Arizona Laws 3-201
  • Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
  • Diseases: includes any fungus, bacterium, virus or other organism of any kind and any unknown cause that is or may be found to be injurious, or likely to be or to become injurious to any domesticated or cultivated plant, or to the product of any such plant. See Arizona Laws 3-201
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Pests: includes all noxious weeds, insects, diseases, mites, spiders, nematodes and other animal or plant organisms found injurious, or likely to be or to become injurious, to any domesticated, cultivated, native or wild plant, or to the product of any such plant. See Arizona Laws 3-201

 

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