Colorado § 35-27.3-103 - Definitions.
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§ 35-27.3-103. Definitions.
As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Advisory committee" means the seed potato advisory committee created in section 35-27.3-107.
(2) "Certified" means certified by a certifying authority as meeting all applicable laws and rules for certification of seed potatoes.
(3) "Certifying authority" means the potato certification service of Colorado state university or the authorized seed potato certifying agency of another state, territory, or country.
(4) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture.
(5) "Community disease" means a disease or pest that can move from field to field during the potato growing season and is not confined to any single potato grower's operation. The term includes late blight and potato virus Y.
(6) "Cultivar" means unique variety.
(7) "Department" means the department of agriculture.
(8) "Distribute" means to offer for sale, sell, barter, deliver, supply, furnish, or otherwise provide seed potatoes.
(9) "Generation" means one full seasonal growth cycle, including planting, growing, harvesting, and storing.
(10) "Hundredweight" means a unit of weight equal to one hundred pounds.
(11) "Official control", with respect to a crop of potatoes, means that the seed potatoes used to produce the crop have been derived from certified seed, qualified seed, or tested, documented sources and found to be within the legal limits for all diseases and pests of concern.
(12) "Parent" means one prior generation removed.
(13) "Person" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, agency, or organized group of persons.
(14) "Progeny" means the offspring or daughter tubers of a potato plant.
(15) "Qualified", with respect to seed potatoes, means that the seed potatoes are derived from certified seed potatoes, have been inspected by a certifying authority and meet all applicable laws and rules for seed potato certification including official disease control standards, and are thus eligible for planting as seed.
(16) "Quarantine" means a quarantine imposed by the commissioner pursuant to section 35-4-110.
(17) "Seed potatoes" means vegetatively propagated tubers used or intended to be used for potato production.
(18) "State national harmonization program" means the state national harmonization program for seed potatoes developed by the plant protection and quarantine program of the animal and plant health inspection service in the United States department of agriculture.
Source: L. 2010: Entire article added, (SB 10-072), ch. 384, p. 1793, § 5, effective July 1.
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