Minn. Stat. § 18H.02 - DEFINITIONS

• Cite as: Minn. Stat. § 18H.02

Subdivision 1. Scope.

The definitions in this section apply to this chapter.

Subd. 2. Agent.

"Agent" means a person who, on behalf of another person, receives on consignment, contracts for, or solicits for sale on commission, a plant product from a producer of the product or negotiates the consignment or purchase of a plant product on behalf of another person.

Subd. 3. Annual.

"Annual" means a plant growing in Minnesota with a life cycle of less than one year.

Subd. 4. Certificate.

"Certificate" means a document authorized or prepared by a federal or state regulatory official that affirms, declares, or verifies that a plant, product, shipment, or other officially regulated item meets phytosanitary, nursery inspection, pest freedom, plant registration or certification, or other legal requirements.

Subd. 5. Certification.

"Certification" means a regulatory official's act of affirming, declaring, or verifying compliance with phytosanitary, nursery inspection, pest freedom, plant registration or certification, or other legal requirements.

Subd. 6. Certified nursery stock.

"Certified nursery stock" means nursery stock which has been officially inspected by the commissioner and found apparently free of quarantine and regulated nonquarantine pests or significant dangerous or potentially damaging plant pests.

Subd. 7. Commissioner.

"Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture or the commissioner's designated employee, representative, or agent.

Subd. 8. Consignee.

"Consignee" means a person to whom a plant, nursery stock, horticultural product, or plant product is shipped for handling, planting, sale, resale, or any other purpose.

Subd. 9. Consignor.

"Consignor" means a person who ships or delivers to a consignee a plant, nursery stock, horticultural product, or plant product for handling, planting, sale, resale, or any other purpose.

Subd. 10. Container-grown.

"Container-grown" means a plant that was produced from a liner or cutting in a container.

Subd. 11. Department.

"Department" means the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.

Subd. 12. Distribute.

"Distribute" means offer for sale, sell, barter, ship, deliver for shipment, receive and deliver, offer to deliver, receive on consignment, contract for, solicit for sale on commission, or negotiate the consignment or purchase in this state.

Subd. 12a. Dormant.

"Dormant" means nursery stock without etiolated growth.

Subd. 12b. Etiolated growth.

"Etiolated growth" means bleached and unnatural growth resulting from the exclusion of sunlight.