An article subject to the quarantine, or regulated article, is an item the handling of which is controlled, regulated, or restricted by Chapter 71 of the Texas Agriculture Code, this subchapter, and any department orders issued pursuant to these rules and Chapter 71, in order to prevent dissemination of the dangerous insect pest or plant disease to areas located outside a quarantined infested area or into a quarantined non-infested area. The following articles are subject to the quarantine. (1) The sapote fruit fly; (2) the fruit, at any stage of development, of all of the following plants, listed by common name with genus and species in parentheses, when grown, harvested, processed, or otherwise handled within or transported through the quarantined area: (A) Abiu (Pouteria caimito); (B) Apple (Malus domestica); (C) Avocado (Persea americana); (D) Black Sapote (Diospyros digyna); (E) Citrus (all species except those classified as limes or lemons); (F) Common Guava (Psidium guajava); (G) Egg-Fruit (Pouteria campechiana); (H) Green Sapote (Pouteria viridis); (I) Hog-Plum (Spondias mombin); (J) Ketembilla (Dovyalis hebecarpa); (K) Lucmo (Pouteria obovata); (L) Mammy-Apple (Mammea americana); (M) Mango (Mangifera indica); (N) Nance (Byrsonima crassifolia); (O) Panama Orange (Citrofortunella x mitis); (P) Peach (Prunus persica); (Q) Pear (Pyrus communis); (R) Pond-Apple (Annona glabra); (S) Quince (Cydonia oblonga); (T) Red Mombin (Spondias purpurea); (U) Sapodilla (Manilkara zapota); (V) Sapote (Pouteria sapota); (W) Star-Apple (Chrysophyllum cainito); (3) any other fruit capable of hosting, harboring, propagating, or disseminating the sapote fruit fly; (4) the producing plant if it has one or more fruits listed in paragraph (2) of this section attached to or growing from it; and (5) any article, item, conveyance, or thing on or in which the sapote fruit fly is actually found. |
