§150A-6.1 Plant import. (a) The board shall maintain a list of restricted plants that require a permit for entry into the State. Restricted plants or any portion thereof shall not be imported into the State without a permit issued pursuant to rules.
(b) The department shall designate, by rule, as restricted plants, specific plants that may be detrimental or potentially harmful to agriculture, horticulture, the environment, or animal or public health, or that spread or may be likely to spread an infestation or infection of an insect, pest, or disease that is detrimental or potentially harmful to agriculture, horticulture, the environment, or animal or public health. In addition, plant species designated by rule as noxious weeds are designated as restricted plants.
(c) The department may regulate or prohibit the sale of specific plants on the list of restricted plants by rule.
(d) Noxious weeds may be imported only for research, by permit, and shall not be offered for sale or sold in the State.
(e) No person shall import, offer for sale, or sell within the State any plant or propagative portion of Salvinia molesta or Salvinia minima and Pistia stratiotes. [L 2000, c 211, pt of §1; am L 2003, c 85, §9; am L 2004, c 10, §16; am L 2008, c 40, §2]
Case Notes
Cited: 111 F. Supp. 3d 1088 (2015).
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 11. Agriculture and Animals
150A. Plant and Non-Domestic Animal Quarantine and Microorganism Import
150A-4 Effect on department of land and natural resources and the department of health.
150A-4.5 Pest inspection, quarantine, and eradication fund.
150A-5 Conditions of importation.
150A-5.3 Inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee and charge.
150A-5.4 Failure to pay or remit the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee; fines.
150A-5.5 What constitutes importation.
150A-5.6 Exceptions to the right to import.
150A-6 Soil, plants, animals, etc., importation or possession prohibited.
150A-6.3 Microorganism import.
150A-6.4 Permit and other import document issuance; requirements.
150A-6.5 Animals; prohibition against possession, etc.; exception.
150A-6.6 Import lists amendment.
150A-7.6 Processing fees for importation and possession requests.
150A-10 Advisory committee on plants and animals.
150A-11.5 Entry of private property for enforcement.
150A-13 Administration of oath.
150A-15 Failure to obey summons.
150A-21 Certification for shipment.
150A-22 Responsibility for treatment.
150A-23 Nursery stock certificate.
150A-31 Certificate for shipment.
150A-43 Suspension or revocation of certificate.
150A-45 Emergency remediation.
150A-46 Conditions of importation under certification.
150A-51 Biosecurity program; establishment.
150A-52 Objectives of biosecurity program.
150A-53 General actions to achieve objectives.
150A-54 Biosecurity program; charges; costs.
150A-55 Federal and other funds.
150A-56 Schedule of appropriations and expenditures for program.