1. (1) No person shall transport into or within the Commonwealth any currant or gooseberry (Ribes spp.) plant, root, scion, seed or cutting unless a control area permit has been issued by the Department of Agricultural Resources. This prohibition shall not apply to the transport, delivery, or possession of the fruit of any currant or gooseberry for the sole purpose of processing the fruit. In no event, however, shall the fruit of red currants or gooseberries be transported, delivered, or used for the purpose of extracting seed for planting without a control area permit.
2. (2) Control area permits will not be issued for any shipment with a destination in any of the following municipalities: Acton Cummington Haverhill Newburyport Alford Deerfield Hawley Norfolk Amesbury Dover Heath North Andover Andover Dracut Hubbardston North Reading Ashburnham Dunstable Huntington Northfield Ashby Duxbury Ipswich Norton Ashfield East Bridgewater Kingston Norwell Athol Easton Lakeville Orange Ayer Egremont Lancaster Otis Barre Erving Lee Pembroke Becket Essex Lenox Pepperell Berkley Foxboro Leverett Petersham Bernardston Freetown Leyden Phillipston Billerica Gardner Littleton Plainfield Blandford Georgetown Manchester Plymouth Bolton Gill Mansfield Plympton Boxboro Gloucester Marshfield Princeton Boxford Goshen Medfield Raynham Bridgewater Granville Merrimac Rochester Buckland Great Barrington Methuen Rowley Canton Greenfield Middleboro Royalston Carlisle Groton Middlefield Salisbury Carver Groveland Middleton Sandisfield Charlemont Halifax Millis Sharon Chelmsford Hamilton Montague Sheffield Chester Hanover Monterey Shelburne Chesterfield Hanson New Marlboro Shirley Colrain Hardwick New Salem Shutesbury Conway Harvard Newbury Southampton

Stockbridge Tolland Warwick Westminster Stoughton Topsfield Wendell Whately Stow Townsend Wenham Williamsburg Sunderland Tyngsboro West Bridgewater Wilmington Taunton Tyringham West Newbury Winchendon Templeton Walpole Westford Worthington Tewksbury Wareham Westhampton Wrentham

1. (3) If necessary, the Department of Agricultural Resources, in its sole discretion, shall amend this list following a review, which at a minimum shall occur every ten years. This review shall include, but not be limited to: consultation with the Department of Conservation and Recreation to determine whether the impact to significant stands of white pine (Pinus strobus) has changed; any mutations or other changes in the white pine blister rust fungus (Cronartium ribicola) that infects both currants and white pine; availability of rust-resistant varieties, cultivars, or hybrids of currants (Ribes spp.).