- (a) The department may adopt the host-free period adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture for Mexican fruit fly quarantine in this state. During a host-free period, host fruits may not be produced or permitted to remain on trees within a quarantined area.
- (b) All old crop fruit shall be removed from premises in a quarantined area at the beginning of an annual host-free period.
(c) In addition to other fruits declared by the department to be host fruits, the following fruits are host fruits for the purpose of this chapter:
- (1) mangoes;
- (2) sapotas, including sapodillas, fruits of the family Sapotaceae and the genus Casimiroa, and all other fruits commonly called sapotas or sapotes;
- (3) peaches;
- (4) guavas;
- (5) apples;
- (6) pears;
- (7) plums;
- (8) quinces;
- (9) apricots;
- (10) mameys;
- (11) ciruelas; and
- (12) all citrus fruits, except lemons, sour limes, calamondin, and citrus fruit that, because of its stage of development during the host-free period, will mature during the period of the year not within the host-free period.
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1167, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.