Bill No.: SF0064                  Drafter:  MRW

LSO No.:  07LSO-0164              Effective Date:  7/1/2007

Enrolled Act No.:  SEA0043

Chapter No.:

Prime Sponsor:     Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Interim Committee

Catch Title:       Nursery stock.

Subject:  Nursery stock.

Summary/Major Elements:

• Creates provisions for cease and desist orders, quarantine, confiscation, destruction or removal of nursery stock violations and provides for due process.

• Modifies and adds definitions.

• Eliminates transportation of nursery stock from licensing requirements.

• Allows licensing if the nursery stock is substantially free from injurious insects, plant diseases or other pests and free of prohibited, restricted, regulated or designated noxious weeds.

• Provides exemptions for charitable and educational institutions from licensing requirements.

• Requires a plant inspection or health certificate for nursery stock to be sold, offered for sale or distributed into Wyoming.

• Limits nursery stock sales if the nursery stock is not substantially free or apparently free of any injurious insects, plant diseases, other pests or prohibited, restricted, regulated or designates weeds.

• Increases penalties and provides for reimbursement to the state for cost of any treatments, control actions, quarantine, confiscation, destruction or removal of any nursery stock from the state resulting from the violation.

• Repeals certain nonresident licensing requirements.