NAC554.930. Inspection by State Quarantine Officer or designee; fee; replanting of garlic bulbs; imported machinery and bins.

     1. The State Quarantine Officer or his or her designee will inspect onions or garlic or the planting areas for those plants during any time of the year which may be appropriate to determine the presence of any stem and bulb nematode or any white rot fungus.

     2. For each inspection of a commercial production conducted pursuant to subsection 1, the State Quarantine Officer will, in accordance with NRS 587.360, impose a fee of:

     (a) Fourteen dollars per acre for a field planted with any vegetative seed specified by the State Quarantine Officer; and

     (b) Five dollars per acre for a field planted with any true seed specified by the State Quarantine Officer.

     3. Garlic bulbs grown in Nevada may be replanted if they have been inspected by the State Quarantine Officer or his or her designee during the growing season and found apparently free from stem and bulb nematode and white rot fungus.

     4. All machinery and all bins and other equipment which have been used in handling, digging, planting, cultivating, harvesting or fertilizing an Allium crop must be free of any dirt, garlic, onions and other residue of the Allium species before being brought into Nevada.

     (Added to NAC by Dep’t of Agriculture, eff. 10-26-83; NAC A by St. Quarantine Officer by R089-11, 12-30-2011)