The commissioner shall have power to establish and maintain quarantines and to adopt other orders and rules and regulations concerning the planting, exposing, sale and transportation of all plants or plant products and regulated articles capable of carrying plant pests of a highly injurious nature in any living stage within this state. The commissioner shall also have the power to prescribe like rules and regulations pertaining to all plants or plant products entering this state. The commissioner shall have the authority to rescind quarantines and other orders when he determines the need or practicability no longer exists.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 12. Insect Pests, Plant Diseases and Noxious Weeds
§19-12-3. Commissioner to Enforce Article; Powers and Duties Generally
§19-12-4. Detection and Abundance Surveys; Findings of Commissioner; Eradication and Suppression
§19-12-6. Quarantines and Other Orders; Plants or Plant Products Entering State
§19-12-7. Infected or Infested Nursery Stock, Articles or Materials Subject to Seizure, etc.
§19-12-8. Right of Entry on Premises
§19-12-11. Nursery Stock Brought Into State to Carry Inspection Certificate
§19-12-12. Disposition of Fees Collected
§19-12-14. Permit Required to Sell, Transport, etc., Plant Pests or Noxious Weeds
§19-12-15. Information to Be Furnished and Inspection Allowed Upon Request of Commissioner
§19-12-16. Criminal Penalties; Civil Penalties; Duties of the Prosecuting Attorney