Terms Used In Michigan Laws 286.208

  • Nursery: means any grounds or premises on or in which nursery stock is propagated, grown, or cultivated for the purpose of distributing or selling nursery stock as a business. See Michigan Laws 286.202
  • Nursery stock: means all domesticated or wild botanically classified hardy perennial or biennial trees, shrubs, vines, and other plants; cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, bulbs, rhizomes, or roots of any of these; and fruit pits. See Michigan Laws 286.202
   Only sound, healthy nursery stock stored or displayed under conditions which will maintain its vigor shall be offered for sale. Offering for sale of dead nursery stock or of stock so seriously weakened by drying, excessive heat or cold, or any other condition that makes it unable to grow satisfactorily when given reasonable care, or the verbal or printed misrepresentation of any material fact, including but not limited to the size, grade, quality, condition or hardiness of nursery stock offered for sale or sold, shall be unlawful.