SECTIONS 6401-6405 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 6401-6405

6401. It is unlawful for any person to transport, receive, or
import into the state any plant or any thing against which a
quarantine has been established, or any plant, unless he does both of
the following:
(a) Notifies the director or the commissioner of the county in
which the plant or thing is received, of the arrival of the plant or
thing immediately after its arrival.
(b) Holds the plant, or thing for immediate inspection by the
director or commissioner, without unnecessarily moving it, or placing
it where it may be harmful.

6402. If there is no commissioner in the county where the plant or
thing is received, the person that transports, receives, or imports
the plant or thing into the state shall notify the director, who
shall make immediate arrangements for its inspection.

6403. The officer who makes the inspection may enter at any time
into any conveyance or place within the state where the plant or
thing is located to ascertain whether it is, or is liable to be,
infested or infected with any pest.

6404. The secretary may enter into agreements with regulatory
officials of other states and the United States Department of
Agriculture to provide for the use of various pest risk mitigation
measures at the place of origin of the shipment of the plants. The
agreement may designate the plants or varieties of plants to which
those measures are applied as being commodities that may be released
upon arrival at ports of entry or terminals in this state without
being held and inspected for compliance with standards and quarantine
requirements.

6405. (a) Any certificate that has been altered, defaced, or
improperly completed or changed is void.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to do any of the
following:
(1) Alter, deface, or otherwise falsify or change, a certificate
that is attached to any plant shipment or other thing entering the
state.
(2) Use, or have in his or her possession, any certificate that
has been altered, defaced, or otherwise falsified or changed.
(3) Transport, receive, or possess any plant material represented
by a certificate.
(c) For purposes of this section, "certificate" means a
certificate issued pursuant to a quarantine regulation.