Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80051. Section 80051.
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions of this chapter govern the construction of this division.
CHAPTER 2. Definitions [80051. - 80064.]
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC 2.
in effectCal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80052. Section 80052.
“Landowner” includes the public agency administering any public lands within the areas subject to this division.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80053. Section 80053.
“Harvest” means to remove or cut and remove from the place where grown.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80054. Section 80054.
“Harvester” means a person who harvests a native plant.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80055. Section 80055.
“Director” means the Director of Food and Agriculture.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80056. Section 80056.
“Department” means the Department of Food and Agriculture.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80057. Section 80057.
“Tag” means a paper or cloth label that can be attached to a native plant or a commercial load by means of a string and a seal, which tag specifies, among other things, a serial number, type of plant, fee required, location of origin, date of removal, witnessing authority, applicant, destination, and proposed use, including, but not limited to, commercial processing or landscaping.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80058. Section 80058.
“Seal” means a metal, tamperproof clamp used to permanently affix the tag to a native plant.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80059. Section 80059.
“Resale” means native plants harvested, possessed, or transported with the intent to sell the plants for the ultimate purpose of landscaping or decoration, or both.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80060. Section 80060.
“Resale load” means native plants harvested, possessed, or transported for resale purposes.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80061. Section 80061.
“Native plant” means any tree, shrub, bulb, or plant or part thereof, except its fruit, named in this division as being subject to this division or added by the director pursuant to Section 80074, which is growing wild. “Native plant” includes any part of any tree of the following species, whether living or dead:
(a)
Olneya tesota (desert ironwood).
(b)
All species of the genus Prosopis (mesquites).
(c)
All species of the genus Cercidium (palos verdes).
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80062. Section 80062.
“Commercial harvesting” means harvesting native plants for an ultimate use other than as landscaping or decorative material and with the plants’ tops or branches, or both, boughs, or limbs removed.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80063. Section 80063.
“Permit” means an application form to harvest native plants that has been filled out by the applicant and approved and officially endorsed by the commissioner or sheriff of the county wherein the native plants covered by the application are located.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 80064. Section 80064.
“Wood receipt” means a receipt that is to accompany one or more cords of wood harvested under this division. The wood receipt shall contain information which specifies, among other things, a serial number, species of wood, fee required, location of origin, date of removal, witnessing authority, applicant, destination, and proposed use, including, but not limited to, commercial processing landscaping.
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