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Title 2 - Agriculture and CommercePart 1 - Rules of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and CommerceSubpart 3 - Bureau of Plant IndustryChapter 01 - Plant Diseases, Insects and Weed
Phony Peach Disease Quarantine
Section 2-1-3-01-128

2 Miss. Code. R. 1-3-01-128

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Section 2-1-3-01-128

Under provisions of Miss. Code Ann. §§ 69-25-7, 69-25-15, 69-25-17, 69-25-19, and 69-25-35, in order to prevent the further introduction and spread within Mississippi of the virus disease known as the phony peach disease, the Bureau of Plant Industry, Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce, does hereby declare and give public notice of the establishment of a quarantine on the following states in which the disease has been found:

ALABAMA MISSISSIPPI
ARKANSAS MISSOURI
FLORIDA SOUTH CAROLINA
GEORGIA TENNESSEE
LOUISIANA TEXAS

The transportation by any means whatever of peach trees, peach roots, plum trees, plum roots, almond trees, apricots, nectarine trees, nectarine roots, or any tree or shrub budded on peach or nectarine roots from the infected areas heretofore listed into, within, or from the State of Mississippi is permitted only when accompanied by a valid nursery inspection certificate of the state of origin and when in addition, the authorized plant inspection official of the state of origin has certified in advance of each shipping season that all nurseries receiving inspection have met the following requirements:

1. That each nursery in the phony peach infected areas producing the regulated products has applied to the State quarantine official for approval of the proposed nursery-growing site on or before August 15, of each year.
2. That selected nursery sites are a least 300 yards from species of wild or domesticated prunus, one-half mile from phony infected commercial orchards, and one-half mile from urban areas.
3. That the one-half mile environs of the nursery site have been inspected prior to October 1, and all phony infected trees found within such environs removed prior to November 1.
4. That all budding has been restricted to the slip-bud method.
5. That none of the stock has been propagated by means of rooted cuttings.

2 Miss. Code. R. 1-3-01-128

Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-7.
Amended April 3, 1991.