Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 15.08 - Horticultural pests and diseases

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Commercial area: means a district where any horticultural product is being produced to the extent that a producer is dependent thereon, in whole or in part, for his or her livelihood. See Washington Code 15.08.010
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of agriculture. See Washington Code 15.04.010
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of agriculture. See Washington Code 15.04.010
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Horticultural premises: includes orchards, vineyards, nurseries, berry farms, vegetable farms, cultivated cranberry marshes, packing houses, dryhouses, warehouses, depots, docks, cars, vessels and other places where nursery stock, fruits, vegetables and other horticultural products are grown, stored, packed, shipped, held for shipment or delivery, sold or otherwise disposed of. See Washington Code 15.08.010
• infection: means affected by or infested with pests or diseases as above defined. See Washington Code 15.08.010
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Nuisance: means any plant, produce or property found in any commercial area upon which is found any pest or disease that is or may be a source of infestation of other properties. See Washington Code 15.08.010
• Nursery stock: includes , but is not limited to, any horticultural, floricultural, viticultural, and vegetable plant, for planting, propagation or ornamentation, growing or otherwise, including cut plant material. See Washington Code 15.08.010
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pests and diseases: means , but is not limited to, any living stage of any insect, mite, nematode, slug, snail, protozoa, or other invertebrate animal, bacteria, fungus, other parasitic plant, weed, or reproductive part thereof, virus or any organism similar to or allied with any of the foregoing, or any infectious substance, which can directly or indirectly injure or cause disease or damage in or to any plant or parts thereof, or any processed, manufactured, or other products of plants. See Washington Code 15.08.010
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervisor: means an assistant director known as the supervisor of plant industry. See Washington Code 15.08.010
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.