PERMANENT RULES
CONTROL BOARD
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: This rule-making order amends chapter 16-750 WAC by modifying the definition of control. Chapter 16-750 WAC, Washington state noxious weed list and schedule of monetary penalties, provides the basis for noxious weed control efforts for county and district weed control boards and other entities. It also provides guidelines for the state noxious weed control board.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 16-750-003.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapter 17.10 RCW.
Other Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 09-24-095 on December 1, 2009.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: The proposed change to the schedule of monetary penalties (WAC 16-750-020) was voted down and is therefore not included in the adopted version.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: January 12, 2010.
Virgil Butch Klaveano
Chair
OTS-2862.2
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 99-24-029, filed 11/23/99,
effective 1/3/00)
WAC 16-750-003
Definitions.
(1) The definitions in this
section shall apply throughout this chapter, unless the
context plainly requires otherwise:
(a) "Action" means the transaction of the official business of the Washington state noxious weed control board including but not limited to receipt of public testimony, deliberations, discussions, considerations, reviews, and final actions.
(b) "Board" means the Washington state noxious weed control board, or a duly authorized representative.
(c) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture, or the director's appointed representative.
(d) "Executive secretary" means the executive secretary of the Washington state noxious weed control board.
(e) "Department" means the department of agriculture of this state.
(f) "Final action" means a collective positive or negative decision, or an actual vote by a majority of board members when sitting as a body or entity, upon a motion, proposal, resolution, or order.
(g) "Meeting" means meetings at which action is taken.
(h) "Regular meetings" means recurring meetings held in accordance with a periodic schedule in compliance with applicable statute or rule.
(2) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this chapter, chapter 17.10 RCW, and any rules adopted thereunder unless the context plainly requires otherwise:
(a) "Control" of noxious weeds means to prevent all seed
production and to prevent the dispersal of ((the following
propagules of aquatic noxious weeds - turions, fragments,
tubers, and nutlets)) all propagative parts capable of forming
new plants.
(b) "Contain" means to confine a noxious weed and its propagules to an identified area of infestation.
(c) "Eradicate" means to eliminate a noxious weed within an area of infestation.
(d) "Prevent the spread of noxious weeds" means to contain noxious weeds.
(e) Class A noxious weeds are those noxious weeds not native to the state that are of limited distribution or are unrecorded in the state and that pose a serious threat to the state.
(f) Class B noxious weeds are those noxious weeds not native to the state that are of limited distribution or are unrecorded in a region of the state and that pose a serious threat to that region.
(g) "Class B designate" means those Class B noxious weeds whose populations in a region or area are such that all seed production can be prevented within a calendar year.
(h) Class C are any other noxious weeds.
(3) Any county noxious weed control board may enhance the clarity of any definition contained in subsection (2) of this section, making that definition more specific, but shall not change its general meaning.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 17.10 RCW. 99-24-029, § 16-750-003, filed 11/23/99, effective 1/3/00; 97-06-108, § 16-750-003, filed 3/5/97, effective 4/5/97; 93-01-004, § 16-750-003, filed 12/2/92, effective 1/2/93; 91-24-072, § 16-750-003, filed 12/2/91, effective 1/2/92; 91-01-016, § 16-750-003, filed 12/7/90, effective 1/7/91; 90-01-004, § 16-750-003, filed 12/7/89, effective 1/7/90; 88-18-001 (Order 24, Resolution No. 24), § 16-750-003, filed 8/25/88.]