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18H.12 DAMAGED, DISEASED, INFESTED, OR MISREPRESENTED STOCK.
(a) No person may knowingly offer to distribute, advertise, or display nursery stock that is
infested or infected with quarantine or regulated nonquarantine pests or significant dangerous
or potentially damaging plant pests, including noxious weeds or nursery stock that is in a dying
condition, desiccated, frozen or damaged by freezing, or materially damaged in any way.
(b) No person may knowingly offer to distribute, advertise, or display nursery stock that may
result in the capacity and tendency or effect of deceiving any purchaser or prospective purchaser as
to the quantity, size, grade, kind, species name, age, variety, maturity, condition, vigor, hardiness,
number of times transplanted, growth ability, growth characteristics, rate of growth, time required
before flowering or fruiting, price, origin, place where grown, or any other material respect.
(c) Upon discovery or notification of damaged, diseased, infested, or misrepresented stock,
the commissioner may place a stop-sale and distribution order on the material. The order makes it
an illegal action to distribute, give away, destroy, alter, or tamper with the plants.
(d) The commissioner may conspicuously mark all plants, materials, and articles known or
suspected to be infected or infested with quarantine or regulated nonquarantine pests or significant
dangerous or potentially damaging plant pests. The commissioner shall notify the persons, owners,
or the tenants in possession of the premises or area in question of the existence of the plant pests.
(e) If the commissioner determines that this chapter has been violated, the commissioner may
order that the nuisance, infestation, infection, or plant pest be abated by whatever means necessary,
including, but not limited to, destruction, confiscation, treatment, return shipment, or quarantine.
(f) The plant owner is liable for all costs associated with a stop order or a quarantine,
treatment, or destruction of plants. The commissioner is not liable for any actual or incidental
costs incurred by a person due to authorized actions of the commissioner. The commissioner
must be reimbursed by the owner of plants for actual expenses incurred by the commissioner in
carrying out a stop order.
History: 2003 c 128 art 5 s 11

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