3 Del. Admin. Code § 804-3.0
The following words and terms, when used in this regulation, have the following meaning unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Control (of a pest)" means to curb or hold in check and includes, but is not limited to, abatement, containment, eradication, extermination or suppression.
"Dangerously injurious plant pest" means a plant pest that constitutes a significant threat to the agricultural, forest or horticultural interests of this State, or the State's general environmental quality.
"Department" means the State of Delaware Department of Agriculture and includes, but is not limited to, its officers, inspectors, employees, agents, or representatives.
"Designated employee" means the owner, manager, supervisor, or other person with authority to bind the entity and train other employees.
"Designee" means the person designated by the Plant Industries Administrator to act on their behalf.
"Eradicate" means the elimination or removal of a pest from a defined geographic area.
"Living Life Stage" means the entire life stage of the Spotted Lanternfly, including, but not limited to, adults, nymphs, or viable egg mass of Spotted Lanternfly.
"Person" means any individual, family, group, firm, association, business, company, corporation, entity or organization.
"Pest" means any biotic agent that is known to cause damage or harm to agriculture or the environment.
"Plant" means all plant parts, including whole plants, roots, scions, seeds and/or cuttings.
"Plant Pest" means, but is not limited to, any pest of plants, agricultural commodities, crop seed, farm products, horticultural products, nursery stock or noncultivated plants. This includes, but is not limited to, insects, snails, nematodes, fungi, viruses, bacterium, microorganisms, mycoplasma-like organisms, weeds, plants or parasitic higher plants.
"Regulated Articles" means the plant pest Spotted Lanternfly, along with any material or object that may carry or spread the Spotted Lanternfly as provided in subsection 5.1 of these regulations.
"Spotted Lanternfly" means the invasive insect having scientific nameLycorma delicatula.
3 Del. Admin. Code § 804-3.0