80051-80064

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE
SECTION 80051-80064




80051.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions of
this chapter govern the construction of this division.



80052.  "Landowner" includes the public agency administering any
public lands within the areas subject to this division.



80053.  "Harvest" means to remove or cut and remove from the place
where grown.



80054.  "Harvester" means a person who harvests a native plant.



80055.  "Director" means the Director of Food and Agriculture.



80056.  "Department" means the Department of Food and Agriculture.



80057.  "Tag" means a paper or cloth label that can be attached to a
native plant or a commercial load by means of a string and a seal,
which tag specifies, among other things, a serial number, type of
plant, fee required, location of origin, date of removal, witnessing
authority, applicant, destination, and proposed use, including, but
not limited to, commercial processing or landscaping.



80058.  "Seal" means a metal, tamperproof clamp used to permanently
affix the tag to a native plant.



80059.  "Resale" means native plants harvested, possessed, or
transported with the intent to sell the plants for the ultimate
purpose of landscaping or decoration, or both.



80060.  "Resale load" means native plants harvested, possessed, or
transported for resale purposes.



80061.  "Native plant" means any tree, shrub, bulb, or plant or part
thereof, except its fruit, named in this division as being subject
to this division or added by the director pursuant to Section 80074,
which is growing wild. "Native plant" includes any part of any tree
of the following species, whether living or dead:
   (a) Olneya tesota (desert ironwood).
   (b) All species of the genus Prosopis (mesquites).
   (c) All species of the genus Cercidium (palos verdes).



80062.  "Commercial harvesting" means harvesting native plants for
an ultimate use other than as landscaping or decorative material and
with the plants' tops or branches, or both, boughs, or limbs removed.



80063.  "Permit" means an application form to harvest native plants
that has been filled out by the applicant and approved and officially
endorsed by the commissioner or sheriff of the county wherein the
native plants covered by the application are located.



80064.  "Wood receipt" means a receipt that is to accompany one or
more cords of wood harvested under this division. The wood receipt
shall contain information which specifies, among other things, a
serial number, species of wood, fee required, location of origin,
date of removal, witnessing authority, applicant, destination, and
proposed use, including, but not limited to, commercial processing
landscaping.