TITLE 8: AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
CHAPTER I: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
SUBCHAPTER h: PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES
PART 240 INSECT PEST AND PLANT DISEASE ACT
SECTION 240.250 SCOPE


 

Section 240.250  Scope

 

To prevent the spread of dangerous plants or dangerous plant pests or dangerous disease throughout the State, the Director shall implement a plant or plant pest quarantine when he/she has determined that a dangerous plant or dangerous plant insect or plant disease has been found within the State and presents a significant risk to the production of agricultural or horticultural crops or to other plants which are essential to maintaining the ecosystem and the asthetic enjoyment thereof.

 

(Source:  Amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 3041, effective March 5, 1982)