Section 286.202 - Definitions. - Michigan Statutes

THE INSECT PEST AND PLANT DISEASE ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 189 of 1931

286.202 Definitions.

Sec. 2.

As used in this act:

(a) “Insect pests” means insects or other invertebrates injurious to plants and plant products.

(b) “Plant diseases” means fungi, bacteria, nematodes, and viruses, injurious to plants and plant products, and the pathological condition in plants and plant products caused by fungi, bacteria, nematodes, and viruses.

(c) “Plants” and “plant products” means trees, shrubs, vines, fruit, forage and cereal plants and all other plants, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds and all other parts of plants; and fruit, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, wood, lumber and all other plant products.

(d) “Nursery stock” means all botanically classified hardy perennial or biennial trees, shrubs, vines, and plants, either domesticated or wild, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, bulbs, rhizomes, or roots thereof, fruit pits; also other such plants and plant parts for, or capable of, propagation, excepting field, vegetable and flower seeds, corms and tubers.

(e) “Nursery” means any grounds or premises on or in which nursery stock is propagated, grown or cultivated for the purpose of distributing or selling same as a business.

(f) “Nurseryman” means any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation owning, leasing, managing, or in charge of a nursery.

(g) “Plant grower” or “plant dealer” means any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation growing or offering for sale herbaceous perennials, or biennial nursery stock, small fruit plants, or asparagus or rhubarb roots.

(h) “Nursery dealer” means any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation not a grower or an original producer of nursery stock in this state, who buys nursery stock for the purpose of reselling or reshipping independently of the control of any nurseryman, nursery dealer or who is engaged with a nurseryman or dealer in handling nursery stock on a consignment basis.

(i) “Agent” means any person who solicits, takes orders, or sells nursery stock in this state for a nurseryman, dealer, or grower of nursery stock, but not on the premises or place of business.

(j) “Places” means vessels, cars and other vehicles, buildings, docks, nurseries, orchards and other premises where plants and plant products are grown, kept, or handled.

(k) “Property” means real estate, personal property, and any thing or substance connected therewith, with or without value.

(l) “Commissioner of agriculture” or “director” means the director of the department of agriculture.

History: 1931, Act 189, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- Am. 1933, Act 246, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1933 ;-- Am. 1939, Act 332, Eff. Sept. 29, 1939 ;-- CL 1948, 286.202 ;-- Am. 1955, Act 255, Eff. Oct. 14, 1955 ;-- Am. 1956, Act 172, Imd. Eff. Apr. 16, 1956 ;-- Am. 1961, Act 239, Eff. Sept. 8, 1961 ;-- Am. 1962, Act 114, Eff. Mar. 28, 1963 ;-- Am. 1976, Act 235, Imd. Eff. Aug. 4, 1976