Glenn County Municipal Code § 7.26 Verticillium Dahliae Control

• 7.26.080 Quarantine Area-Review Of Line

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Glenn County Verticillium Dahliae Control Ordinance. (Ord. 1046 § 1, 1994)

Verticillium dahliae is a serious olive and pistachio tree pest of limited occurrence in Glenn County. To protect the County's olive and pistachio industries, it is necessary to restrict the growing, ginning, processing, and maintaining of cotton plants and plant parts, including cotton seed, trash and debris, in the County. (Ord. 1046 § 1, 1994)

The following articles and commodities are declared as hosts for or possible carriers of verticillium dahliae:

1. Cotton, in both commercial and non-commercial production.

2. Cotton seed.

3. Cotton plant parts, including cotton trash and debris.

4. Equipment used in cotton production and harvesting. (Ord. 1046 § 1, 1994)

The following regulations apply outside the area bounded on the South by the Glenn-Colusa County line; on the West by the Tehama-Colusa Canal, from its intersection with the Glenn-Colusa County line to its intersection with State Highway 162; on the North, by State Highway 162, from its intersection with the TehamaColusa Canal east to its intersection with State Highway 45, then east along an extension of the centerline of State Highway 162 to the east bank of the Sacramento River, then north to the Glenn-Butte County line; and on the East by the Glenn-Butte County line lying between the northern and southern boundaries described herein:

1. Cotton shall not be grown, in either commercial or non-commercial production, and shall not be ginned, processed, stored or otherwise maintained for any purpose or in any manner.

2. Cotton plant parts, including cotton trash and debris, shall not be produced, processed, stored, maintained or be subjected to disposal by any means.

3. Cotton seed shall not be used, stored or processed in any manner. (Ord. 1081 §1, 1997; Ord. 1046 § 1, 1994)

Cotton may be grown, ginned, processed, and maintained in that portion of Glenn County not described in Section 7.26.040, provided that:

1. Cotton trash and debris generated from cleaning and processing operation is handled in a manner approved by Agricultural Commissioner, and sufficient to prevent the spreading of the verticillium dahliae;

2. Cotton field debris and residue is incorporated into the top six inches of the soil where the cotton is grown within 10 days of harvest; and

3. Both of the following restrictions on planting are followed:

   1. Cotton shall not be grown successively at the same location, unless an examination of stalks conducted by the Agricultural Commissioner determines that the level of mirosclerotia-infested stalks for the current and prior cotton crops produced at the location is less than ten percent (10%). The cost of each survey shall be established by Agricultural Commissioner, based on actual county costs, and shall be paid in advance by the grower or property owner.

   2. Prior to the replanting of cotton in an area previously planted with cotton, a nonsusceptible host as grown over the entire area for at least one cropping season. (Ord. 1235 § 2, 2012; 1203 § 2, 2008; Ord. 1046 § 1, 1994)

Whole cotton seed, when reasonably free of debris and used solely for livestock feed, is exempt from the restriction of subsection C of Section 7.26.040. (Ord. 1046 § 1, 1994)

Every person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 1060 § 37, 1995.)

The board of supervisors may from time to time review the location of the quarantine line established by Section 7.26.040 and may reset the line or establish other such lines as the board deems prudent to advance the purposes of this chapter. (Ord. 1081 § 2, 1997; Ord. 1046 § 1, 1994)