As used in this subarticle:

1. “Broker” means any person who negotiates the purchase or sale of any nursery stock. A broker may or may not handle the nursery stock or the proceeds of a sale;

2. “Certificate” means a document authorized or prepared by a duly authorized federal or state regulatory official that affirms, declares, or verifies that an article, nursery stock, plant, product, shipment, or any other officially regulated items meet phytosanitary, quarantine, nursery inspection, pest freedom, plant registration or certification, or any other set of legal requirements;

3. “Compliance agreement” means any written document between a person and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry or the United States Department of Agriculture to achieve compliance with any set of requirements being enforced by the Department;

4. “Cultivar” means a horticulturally, silviculturally, or agriculturally derived cultivated variety of a plant, as distinguished from a natural variety;

5. “Dealer" means any person who sells, brokers, or distributes nursery stock that was not grown from seeds, cuttings, liners, or similar propagative material by that person but was bought, received on consignment, or acquired and in the person’s possession for the purposes of resale;

6. “Facilities" means and includes all buildings, greenhouses, storage places, cellars, pits, trenches, bins, containers, packing materials, crates, packing rooms, display bins, refrigerators, ice boxes, and any other structures and materials used in storing, transporting, and distributing nursery stock. The nursery, dealer, or agent shall maintain the facilities as are necessary for the proper care and conservation of nursery stock;

7. “Grower” means any person who raises, grows, or propagates for profit or other reasons any nursery stock or plant;

8. “Heel yard” means any plant holding area;

9. "Horticulture" means the discipline of agriculture science relating to the cultivation of gardens or orchards, including, but not limited to the growing of vegetables, flowers, and ornamental trees and shrubs;

10. “Landscaper” means a person who purchases nursery stock and offers that stock for sale or planting through landscape services and typically does not hold and maintain plants in a heel yard or nursery;

11. “Native species” means a species that, other than due to an introduction, historically occurred or currently occurs in that ecosystem;

12. "Nursery” means and includes any field, ground, greenhouse, bin, pit, plot, or premise where nursery or floral stock is grown, propagated, or sold;

13. “Nursery operator” means the person who owns, leases, manages, or is in control of a nursery, and any person who is a grower of nursery stock;

14. “Nursery stock” means and includes, whether in field or container, all trees, shrubs, vines, rosebushes, turfgrass, cuttings, grafts, scions, fruit pits, herbaceous plants, evergreens and other ornamental trees, bushes, collected wild plants and trees, decorative plants, tropical plants, flowering plants, bedding plants, vegetable plants for transplanting, aquatic plants, roots, corms, rhizomes, bulbs, and ferns grown for propagation, all packing materials, and other things used in the handling, storing, crating, and shipping of nursery stock. “Nursery stock” does not include cut Christmas trees, wreaths, seeds, vegetables or fruits, agronomic crops, cut or dried flowers, and cut or dried herbs;

15. “Phytosanitary certificate” means a document issued by the Department indicating that the specified live plants or plant products comply with the legal requirements of the importing state or country. The document may be either a State Phytosanitary Certificate or Federal Phytosanitary Certificate;

16. “Place of business” means each separate store, stand, sales lot, or any other place at or from which nursery stock is being sold or offered for sale;

17. “Plant pest” means any pest known to cause damage or harm to plants, agricultural commodities, horticultural products, nursery stock, silvicultural interests, or the environment. Plant pest includes, but is not limited to, insects, snails, nematodes, fungi, viruses, bacterium, microorganisms, mycoplasma-like organisms, weeds, plants, or other parasitic higher plants;

18. “Sales location” means any principal business location where nursery stock is sold directly to a customer;

19. “Sell” means to offer for sale, expose for sale, possess for sale, exchange, barter, or trade;

20. "Silviculture" means the development and care of forests;

21. “Stop sale” means a legal document issued by the State Board of Agriculture that prevents the production of or sale of nursery stock due to an infestation of a plant pest; and

22. “Turfgrass sod” means a strip or section of one or more grasses or other plants acceptable for lawn plantings which, when severed from its growing site, contains sufficient plant roots to remain intact, and does not contain weeds in excess of the amount specified by the Board.

Added by Laws 2000, c. 367, § 1, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000. Amended by Laws 2007, c. 200, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2007.