2013 Maryland Code
AGRICULTURE
§ 5-702 - Definitions


MD Agric Code § 5-702 (2013) What's This?

§5-702.

As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction:

(a) “State” means a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

(b) “Requesting state” means a state which invokes the procedures of the compact to secure the undertaking or intensification of measures to control or eradicate one or more pests within one or more other states.

(c) “Responding state” means a state requested to undertake or intensify the measures referred to in subdivision (b) of this section.

(d) “Pest” means any invertebrate animal, pathogen, parasitic plant or similar or allied organism which can cause disease or damage in any crops, trees, shrubs, grasses or other plants of substantial value.

(e) “Insurance Fund” means the Pest Control Insurance Fund established pursuant to this compact.

(f) “Governing board” means the administrators of this compact representing all of the party states when such administrators are acting as a body in pursuance of authority vested in them by this compact.

(g) “Executive committee” means the committee established pursuant to § 5-705(e) of this compact.

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