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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>81688</law_id><section_number>3.2-700</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-2403</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions; Protection and Promotion of Agriculture</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Tree and Crop Pests</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Pests</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Certificate</span>&#x201D; means a document issued or authorized by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> indicating that a <span class="dictionary">regulated article</span> is not contaminated with a <span class="dictionary">pest</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Host</span>&#x201D; means any plant or plant product upon which a <span class="dictionary">pest</span> is dependent for completion of any portion of its life cycle.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Infested</span>&#x201D; means actually <span class="dictionary">infested</span> or infected with a <span class="dictionary">pest</span> or so exposed to infestation that it would be reasonable to believe that an infestation exists.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Move</span>&#x201D; means to ship, offer for shipment, receive for transportation, carry, or otherwise transport, <span class="dictionary">move</span> or allow to be moved.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Permit</span>&#x201D; means a document issued or authorized by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> to provide for the movement of <span class="dictionary">regulated articles</span> to restricted destinations for limited handling, utilization, or processing.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Person</span>&#x201D; means the term as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Person" href="/1-230/">1-230</a>. The term also means any society.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Pest</span>&#x201D; means an insect, disease, parasitic plant, or other organism of any character whatever, in any living stage, vertebrate or invertebrate, causing or capable of causing injury or damage to any plant or part thereof or any processed, manufactured, or other product of plants, or otherwise creating a public nuisance.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Regulated article</span>&#x201D; means any article of any character carrying or capable of carrying the <span class="dictionary">pest</span> against which the quarantine is directed.</p></section></text><history>1975, c. 29, &#xA7; 3.1-188.20; 1980, c. 291; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
