Or. Admin. R. 603-051-0821

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024

Section 603-051-0821 - Definitions

As used in these rules, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Applicant" means any person growing strawberry plants for sale in Oregon as certified stock.

(2) "Certification" means the issuance of a certificate verifying that the provisions of OAR 603-051-0823 have been met as to any particular quantity or lot of strawberry plants.

(3) "Certifying Agencies" means the school and the Department.

(4) "Certified Block" means a planting of strawberry plants for the production of Certified class of stock.

(5) "Certified Stock" means a class of strawberry plants that are first-year (Certified-1) or second-year propagation (Certified-2) from Registered stock.

(6) "Class" means a group of strawberry plants ranked together as possessing common characteristics or as having the same status.

(7) "Department" means the State Department of Agriculture.

(8) "Foundation Block" means a planting of strawberry plants for the production of Foundation class of stock.

(9) "Foundation Stock" means a class of strawberry plants that are first-year propagation from nuclear stock plants that have been approved on the basis of annual indexing.

(10) "Registered Block" means a planting of strawberry plants for the production of a Registered class of stock.

(11) "Index" means to test for systemic disease infection by making a graft with tissue from the plant to be tested to an indicator plant or by other means of inoculation.

(12) "Nuclear Stock" means strawberry plants of cultivars or clones approved by the Dean of the school which were originally indexed and their progeny, which have been regularly reindexed and continuously protected from systemic infection by Federal or State or Oregon agencies or plants from other states meeting standards established by the Dean of the school.

(13) "Off-Type" means any volunteer strawberry plant or any strawberry plant different from the variety as stated on the application for certification.

(14) "Oregon Certified Strawberry Nursery Stock" means progeny plants propagated from Foundation, Registered, or Certified stock, and certified in accordance with these regulations.

(15) "Registered Stock" means a class of strawberry plants that are first-year propagation from Foundation stock.

(16) "Systemically-Infected" means infected by a serious systemic pathogen or manifesting symptoms or behavior characteristic of a serious systemic disease.

(17) "School" means the School of Agriculture, Oregon State University.

Or. Admin. R. 603-051-0821

AD 965(3-72), f. 2-24-72, ef. 3-25-72; Renumbered from 603-051-0829.02

Stat. Auth.: ORS 561.190 & ORS 633.620 - ORS 633.660

Stats. Implemented: ORS 633.620 - ORS 633.660