Phony peach disease quarantine
Arkansas Code § 2-16-207; Arkansas Code § 2-16-308; Arkansas Code § 2-21-106
(a)
- (1) Standard State Quarantine Order No. 2, as revised June 13, 1951.
- (2) Effective on and after July 2, 1951.
- (3) Disease. Phony peach, a virus disease of peach and certain other stone fruits.
(b) States and counties currently affected by phony peach:
- (1) Alabama, entire state;
- (2) Florida, entire state;
- (3) Georgia, entire state;
- (4) Louisiana, entire state;
- (5) Mississippi, entire state;
(6)
- (A) Arkansas.
- (B) Counties of:
(i) Arkansas;
(ii) Ashley;
(iii) Bradley;
- (iv) Chicot;
- (v) Columbia;
- (vi) Crittenden;
- (vii) Cross;
- (viii) Desha;
- (ix) Drew;
- (x) Hempstead;
- (xi) Howard;
- (xii) Jefferson;
- (xiii) Lafayette;
- (xiv) Lee;
- (xv) Lincoln;
- (xvi) Little River;
- (xvii) Miller; (xviii) Monroe;
- (xix) Nevada;
- (xx) Phillips;
- (xxi) Pike;
- (xxii) Poinsett; (xxiii) St. Francis;
- (xiv) Sevier;
- (xv) Union; and
- (xvi) Woodruff;
- (7) Missouri, county of Dunklin;
(8)
- (A) North Carolina.
(B) Counties of:
- (i) Anson;
- (ii) Cumberland;
- (iii) Gaston;
- (iv) Hoke;
- (v) Polk; and
- (vi) Rutherford;
(9)
- (A) South Carolina.
(B) Counties of:
- (i) Aiken;
- (ii) Allendale;
- (iii) Bamberg;
- (iv) Barnwell;
- (v) Cherokee;
- (vi) Chesterfield;
- (vii) Edgefield;
- (viii) Greenville;
- (ix) Lancaster;
- (x) Laurens;
- (xi) Lexington;
- (xii) Marlboro;
- (xiii) Orangeburg;
- (xiv) Richland;
- (xv) Saluda;
- (xvi) Spartanburg;
- (xvii) Sumter; and (xviii) York;
(10)
- (A) Tennessee.
(B) Counties of:
- (i) Chester;
- (ii) Crockett;
- (iii) Dyer;
- (iv) Fayette;
- (v) Hardeman;
- (vi) Hardin;
- (vii) Lake;
- (viii) Lauderdale;
- (ix) McNaily;
- (x) Madison; and
- (xi) Weakley; and
(11)
- (A) Texas.
(B) Counties of:
- (i) Anderson;
- (ii) Bexar;
- (iii) Brazos;
- (iv) Camp;
- (v) Cherokee;
- (vi) Freestone;
- (vii) Limestone;
- (viii) McLennan;
- (ix) Milam;
- (x) Rusk;
- (xi) San Augustine;
- (xii) Smith; and
- (xiii) Upshur.
- (c) Regulated products. All peach, plum, apricot, nectarine, and almond nursery stock.
- (d) Conditions governing shipment. Transportation by any means whatsoever of the regulated products from any regulated area either into, or within, or from the State of Arkansas, is permitted only when there is securely attached to the outside of each shipment a valid nursery inspection certificate issued by an authorized official of the state of origin and bearing the name and address of the consignor of the regulated articles contained therein.
(e) Requirements for certification. Certifications or permits shall be issued only on the following conditions:
- (1) That each nursery in the phony peach infested areas producing the regulated products shall apply to the state quarantine official for approval of the proposed nursery-growing site on or before August 15 of each year;
(2) Selected nursery sites shall be at least:
- (A) Three hundred yards (300 yds.) from wild or domesticated plum;
- (B) One-half (1/2) mile from phony-infested commercial orchards; and
- (C) One-half (1/2) mile from an urban area;
- (3) The one-half (1/2) environs of the nursery site shall be inspected prior to October 1, and all phony trees found within such environs removed prior to November 1; and
- (4)
(4) All budding shall be restricted to the slip-bud method.
- (f) Removal of areas from rules. When satisfactory evidence has been presented that no phony peach disease has been found for a period of three (3) years in any county or state affected by this quarantine, said county or state shall be removed from this section.
- (g) Shipment of regulated products for scientific purposes.
Rules of this quarantine do not apply to shipments of regulated products to the United States Department of Agriculture or to other recognized institutions for scientific purposes except that a special permit must be secured for the entry into or movement within the State of Arkansas of such products.