(a)  Nursery workers, dealers, or other persons residing or doing business in another state, desiring to sell or solicit orders for nursery stock in this state, are, upon complying with all other provisions of this chapter and all rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter, and upon payment of the fee of fifty dollars ($50.00), entitled to a dealer‘s license permitting those persons and/or their registered agents to sell or solicit orders for certified nursery stock within this state.

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-14

  • Dealer: means any person, not a grower or an original producer of nursery stock in this state, and who is independent of the control of any nursery worker or other dealer, who sells, offers to sell, solicits orders for or otherwise traffics in nursery stock from a supply at hand or which is obtained from a nursery or another dealer. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
  • Department: means the department of environmental management of the state of Rhode Island. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
  • Director: means the director of environmental management of the state of Rhode Island, and his or her authorized agents. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
  • Nursery: means any grounds or premises on or in which nursery stock is propagated, grown, or cultivated, or from which nursery stock is collected for sale purposes. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
  • Nursery stock: means all hardy, deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs, vines and other plants having a persistent woody stem, whether wild or cultivated, and plant parts, for and capable of propagation. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
  • Nursery worker: means the person who owns, leases, manages, or is in charge of a nursery. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
  • Person: means a corporation, company, society, association, partnership, governmental agency, and any individual or combination of individuals. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
  • Place of business: means each separate store, stand, sales ground, lot, truck, railway car, or other vehicle or any other place at or from which nursery stock is being sold or offered for sale where one or more sales persons are in attendance. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2

(b)  Notwithstanding subsection (a), the director may enter into reciprocal agreements with the responsible plant regulatory officials of other states for the recognition of official inspection certificates, under which certified nursery stock owned by nursery workers, dealers or other persons from those states may be sold and delivered in this state without the payment of a Rhode Island license fee, if like privileges are accorded to Rhode Island nursery workers and dealers in those other states, and the department finds that those other states, before issuing official inspection certificates require inspection equal to that required in Rhode Island, except that any nonresident nursery worker, dealer, or other person having a place of business in this state shall obtain a dealer’s license and pay all license fees as required in this chapter.

History of Section.
G.L. 1956, § 2-18.1-14, as assigned, P.L. 1962, ch. 132, § 1; P.L. 1998, ch. 131, § 1.