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Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142)SEEDS AND PLANTING STOCK CERTIFICATIONChapter 16-301 - General seed regulationsPart 4 - QUARANTINES
Bean Seed Quarantine
Section 16-301-365 - Bean seed quarantine - Establishing quarantine

Wash. Admin. Code § 16-301-365

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Section 16-301-365 - Bean seed quarantine - Establishing quarantine

The production of edible beans and bean seed is an important industry in the state of Washington. The economic well-being of that industry is threatened by the introduction of bean seed contaminated with bean, bacterial, fungal and seed-borne viral pathogens. The director has determined that a quarantine is needed to protect the Washington dry bean industry and to provide the bean growers of this state a source of bean seed for planting purposes that is tested for the presence of these diseases.

Wash. Admin. Code § 16-301-365

Statutory Authority: RCW 15.49.310, 17.24.011, 17.24.041 and chapter 34.05 RCW. 04-08-043, § 16-301-365, filed 3/31/04, effective 5/1/04. Statutory Authority: RCW 15.49.005, 15.49.081, 15.49.310, 15.49.370(3) and chapter 17.24 RCW. 00-24-077, § 16-301-365, filed 12/4/00, effective 1/4/01.