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TITLE 4AGRICULTURE
PART 1TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 19QUARANTINES AND NOXIOUS AND INVASIVE PLANTS
SUBCHAPTER JRED IMPORTED FIRE ANT QUARANTINE
RULE §19.102Quarantined Articles

(a) Quarantined articles are:

  (1) the red imported fire ant in any living state of development;

  (2) soil, compost, decomposed manure, humus, muck, and peat, separately or with other things;

  (3) plants with roots with soil attached;

  (4) grass sod;

  (5) baled hay and baled straw stored in direct contact with the ground;

  (6) logs, pulpwood, and stumpwood; and

  (7) used mechanized soil-moving equipment.

(b) Any other products, articles, or means of conveyance of any character whatsoever, not covered by subsection (a) of this section, are quarantined articles when it is determined that they present a hazard of spread of red imported fire ants and the person in possession thereof has been so notified.


Source Note: The provisions of this §19.102 adopted to be effective September 2, 1996, 21 TexReg 7805.

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