(1)

(A) "Assessment" means the amount charged to each cotton grower to finance, in whole or part, a program to suppress or eradicate the boll weevil in this state.

(B) The grower's charge will be calculated on a per-acre basis;

(2) "Boll weevil" means Anthonomus grandis Boheman in any state of development;

(3) "Certificate" means a document issued or authorized by the State Plant Board indicating that a regulated article is not contaminated with boll weevils;

(4) "Cotton" means any cotton plant or cotton plant product upon which the boll weevil is dependent for completion of any portion of its life cycle;

(5) "Cotton grower" means any person, other than a cash rent landlord, who is engaged in or has an economic risk in the business of producing, or causing cotton to be produced, for market;

(6) "Host" means any plant or plant product upon which the boll weevil is dependent for completion of any portion of its life cycle;

(7) "Infested" means actually infested with a boll weevil or so exposed to infestation that it would be reasonable to believe that an infestation exists;

(8) "Permit" means a document issued or authorized by the board to provide for the movement of regulated articles to restricted designations for limited handling, utilization, or processing;

(9) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, company, society, or association, or other business entity;

(10) "Regulated article" means any article of any character carrying or capable of carrying the boll weevil, including, but not limited to, cotton plants, seed cotton, cottonseed, other hosts, gin trash, gin equipment, mechanical cotton pickers, and other equipment associated with cotton production, harvesting, or processing; and

(11) "State Plant Board" means the agricultural plant regulatory agency of the State of Arkansas.