2006 New York Code - Definitions.

 
    § 161. Definitions.  As used in this article:
    1.  The  words  "nursery  stock" shall apply to and include all trees,
  shrubs, plants and vines and parts thereof.
    2. The words "insect pests" mean insects injurious to plant and  plant
  products.
    3.  The  words  "plant  and plant products" mean trees, shrubs, vines,
  annuals, biennials, perennials, vegetables,  fruit,  forage  and  cereal
  plants  and all other plant cuttings, grafts, scions, buds and all other
  parts of plants, and fruit, vegetables, roots, bulbs,  seeds,  wood  and
  lumber.
    4. The words "plant diseases" mean fungi, bacteria, nematodes, viruses
  and  plant  parasites  injurious  to  plants and plant products, and the
  pathological condition in plants and plant  products  caused  by  fungi,
  bacteria, nematodes, viruses and plant parasites.
    5.  The  word  "nursery"  means  the  grounds and premises, private or
  public, on or in which nursery stock is propagated, grown or  cultivated
  for  the  purpose  of distribution or selling the same as a business and
  shall include grounds or premises owned, leased or managed by the  state
  or any agency of the state government, and the owner or operator of such
  business  shall  be a "nursery grower"; provided, however, that the term
  "nursery grower" shall not include  persons  engaged  in  the  part-time
  production  of  plant  products  not  sold  in  the  regular channels of
  business.
    6. The words "nursery dealer"  mean  any  person,  firm,  partnership,
  association  or  corporation  not  a  grower  or an original producer of
  nursery stock in this state which or who buys, or acquires, or  receives
  on consignment nursery stock for the purpose of reselling, transporting,
  or otherwise disposing of the same.
    7.  The word "soil" means the commonly accepted medium or other medium
  in which plants are grown and which is or may be capable of harboring or
  transmitting insect pests and plant diseases.
    8. The words "indoor plants" mean plants which are used for decorative
  purposes because of their flowering, fruiting or foliar  characteristics
  and  which  cannot be grown and maintained throughout all seasons in the
  outdoor environment of this state.
    9. The words "noxious weeds" means any living stage (including but not
  limited to, seeds and reproductive parts)  of  any  parasitic  or  other
  plant  of  a kind, or subdivision of a kind, which is of foreign origin,
  is new to or not widely prevalent in this state,  and  can  directly  or
  indirectly  injure  crops, other useful plants, livestock, or poultry or
  other interests of agriculture, including irrigation.