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All persons buying wild ginseng or otherwise accepting this plant or part thereof for resale shall be licensed to do so and shall acquire wild ginseng or parts thereof in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the regulations adopted hereunder. The wild ginseng harvest season shall be set by the Board. If any person takes wild ginseng, other than from his own land, on any other date it shall be deemed a violation of this chapter.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":286163,"text":"The indigenous plant, Panax quinquefolius L., of the Araliaceae family, commonly referred to as ginseng, is hereby declared a threatened plant species when it occurs in the wild. All persons buying wild ginseng or otherwise accepting this plant or part thereof for resale shall be licensed to do so and shall acquire wild ginseng or parts thereof in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the regulations adopted hereunder. The wild ginseng harvest season shall be set by the Board. 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This law was first created in 1979. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 372 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1979 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1983, chapter 121; in 2008, chapter 860<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":194049,"object_type":"law","relational_id":79893,"identifier":"3.2-1007","token":"3.2\/I\/10\/3.2-1007","url":"\/3.2-1007\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/3.2-1007\/","token":"3.2\/I\/10\/3.2-1007","dublin_core":{"Title":"Wild ginseng declared threatened plant species","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 3.2-1007","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The indigenous plant<\/span>, Panax quinquefolius L., of the Araliaceae family, commonly referred to as ginseng, is hereby declared a threatened plant<\/span> species<\/span> when it occurs in the wild. All persons buying wild ginseng or otherwise accepting this plant<\/span> or part thereof for resale shall be licensed to do so and shall acquire wild ginseng or parts thereof in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the regulations adopted hereunder. The wild ginseng harvest season shall be set by the Board<\/span>. If any person takes wild ginseng, other than from his own land, on any other date it shall be deemed a violation of this chapter.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nWILD GINSENG DECLARED THREATENED PLANT SPECIES (\u00a7 3.2-1007)\n\nThe indigenous plant, Panax quinquefolius L., of the Araliaceae family, commonly\nreferred to as ginseng, is hereby declared a threatened plant species when it\noccurs in the wild. All persons buying wild ginseng or otherwise accepting this\nplant or part thereof for resale shall be licensed to do so and shall acquire\nwild ginseng or parts thereof in accordance with the provisions of this chapter\nand the regulations adopted hereunder. The wild ginseng harvest season shall be\nset by the Board. If any person takes wild ginseng, other than from his own\nland, on any other date it shall be deemed a violation of this chapter.\n\nHISTORY: 1979, c. 372, \u00a7 3.1-1027; 1983, c. 121; 2008, c. 860.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}