In addition to the definitions set out in the Texas Agriculture Code and in the Texas Administrative Code the following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

1. (1) Alternative method of destruction--Any means other than the specified method of cotton stalk destruction for a designated zone mentioned in §20.22 of this title (relating to Stalk Destruction Requirements).
2. (2) Certificate--A phytosanitary certificate issued by an inspector allowing the movement of plants or plant products, or a document issued by an inspector allowing the movement of equipment or vehicles.
3. (3) Certified Cotton Producer Organization--An organization approved and certified under the requirements established by the National Cotton Council.
4. (4) Cotton--All parts of cotton and wild cotton plants of the genera Gossypium and Thurberia, except cotton products.
5. (5) Cotton destruction date--The date established in this chapter for the destruction of cotton stalks.
6. (6) Cotton lint--All forms of raw ginned cotton except linters and gin waste.
7. (7) Cotton products--Seed cotton, cotton lint, linters, oil mill waste, gin waste, gin trash, cotton seed, cottonseed hulls, and all other forms of unmanufactured cotton fiber.
8. (8) Cotton seed--The seed of the cotton plant, separated from lint.
9. (9) Destroyed, or destruction--Killed by cutting or dislodging the roots, or by an alternative method which completely kills the leaves, stems, flowers, fruit, and roots of the plant. In zones with a shred and/or plow destruction requirement, shredded cotton will be considered destroyed.
10. (10) Eradicated area--An area declared by the commissioner of agriculture to be apparently free of either pink bollworm or boll weevil infestation. The commissioner may grant such a designation after a written recommendation is submitted to the department from the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, the Director of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, the Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, or the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which includes competent scientific documentation indicating the area is apparently free of infestation.
11. (11) Eradication area--A defined area in which an eradication program has been initiated.
12. (12) Gin motes--Short fragments of unmanufactured cotton fiber removed from lint cleaners after ginning cotton.
13. (13) Gin trash--All material produced during the cleaning and ginning of seed cotton, except lint, linters, cotton seed, and gin waste.
14. (14) Gin waste--All forms of unmanufactured waste cotton fiber resulting from the ginning of seed cotton, including gin motes.
15. (15) Inspector--An employee of the department, or the United States Department of Agriculture who is authorized to conduct inspections, or an individual designated by the commissioner of agriculture.
16. (16) Linters--Residual unmanufactured cotton fiber separated from cottonseed after the lint has been removed.
17. (17) Non-hostable cotton--Cotton that is free of fruiting structures such as buds, squares, flowers or bolls.
18. (18) No-till cotton field--A field in which the soil is left undisturbed from the time the cotton crop is harvested until the new crop is planted in narrow slots and weed control is accomplished using herbicides.
19. (19) Oil mill waste--Waste products, including linters, derived from the milling of cotton seed.
20. (20) Plow--To dislodge or sever the roots of plants in a manner which prevents further growth. Equipment used to accomplish this could include a stalk puller, any type of plow, or similar implement.
21. (21) Quarantined area--Any portion of the State of Texas which has been placed under quarantine by the department due to cotton pest(s) infestation.
22. (22) Quarantined articles--The following articles are quarantined: boll weevil; pink bollworm; cotton; cotton products; any means of transportation which have been used in conveying cotton products and any other item contaminated with cotton or cotton pests, including any equipment used in harvesting cotton. Baled cotton and manufactured cotton products are not quarantined articles.
23. (23) Regrowth cotton--Cotton that has not been completely destroyed in such a way as to absolutely prevent further growth.
24. (24) Seed cotton--All forms of unginned cotton from which the seed has not been separated.
25. (25) Stalk puller--An implement which dislodges the roots of cotton plants by pulling up the stalks.
26. (26) Standing stalks--Original, undestroyed cotton plants growing in a field before or after harvesting.
27. (27) Suppressed area--An area declared by the commissioner of agriculture in which the movement of quarantined articles presents a threat to the success of eradication of either pink bollworm or boll weevil. The commissioner may grant such a designation after a written recommendation is submitted to the department from the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, the Director of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, the Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, or the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which includes competent scientific documentation indicating that movement of quarantined articles into the area presents a threat to the success of eradication in an eradication area.
28. (28) Treatment--The act of eliminating possible cotton pest infestation(s) by means of cleaning, or fumigation in instances in which normal cleaning will not eliminate the infestation.
29. (29) Volunteer cotton--Cotton developing after the growing season from incidental seeds.

Source Note:The provisions of this §20.1 adopted to be effective September 2, 1996, 21 TexReg 7967; amended to be effective August 27, 2000, 25 TexReg 8023.