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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57067</law_id><section_number>3.2-800</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>3.2-3931</reference><reference>58.1-3230</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="8">Noxious Weeds</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, 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">noxious weed</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Infested</span>&#x201D; means the establishment of a <span class="dictionary">noxious weed</span> or exposure to such weed, which would be reasonable cause to believe that establishment could occur.
		&#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, except for bona fide agricultural purposes including the management, tilling, planting, or harvesting of agricultural products.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Noxious weed</span>&#x201D; means any living plant, or part thereof, declared by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> through regulations under this chapter to be detrimental to crops, surface waters, including lakes, or other desirable plants, livestock, land, or other property, or to be injurious to public health, the environment, or the economy, except when in-state production of such living plant, or part thereof, is commercially viable or such living plant is commercially propagated in Virginia.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Permit</span>&#x201D; means a document issued or authorized by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> to provide for movement of <span class="dictionary">regulated articles</span> to restricted destinations for limited handling, utilization, processing, or for scientific purposes.
		&#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">Quarantine</span>&#x201D; means a legal declaration by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> that specifies: (i) the <span class="dictionary">noxious weed</span>; (ii) the articles to be regulated; (iii) conditions governing movement; and (iv) exemptions.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Regulated article</span>&#x201D; means any article of any character as described in this chapter or in the <span class="dictionary">quarantine</span> carrying or capable of carrying a <span class="dictionary">noxious weed</span> against which this chapter or the <span class="dictionary">quarantine</span> is directed.</p></section></text><history>1970, c. 175, &#xA7; 3.1-296.12; 1996, c. 266; 2008, c. 860; 2016, c. 171; 2023, c. 153.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
