§ 2-16-2 - Definitions.
SECTION 2-16-2
§ 2-16-2 Definitions. – (a) For the purpose of this chapter:
(1) "Director" means the director of the department ofenvironmental management for the state of Rhode Island and his or herauthorized agents.
(2) "Person" means any individual, association, partnership,society, or combination of individuals, or any institution, park, or otherpublic agency administered by the state or by any city or town.
(3) "Plant parts and plant products" means all vegetative andpropagative structures constituting parts of the plant body or produced byplants, whether intact or subdivided, and whether or not still attached to theplant, when existing in a crude or natural state, or which have not beenprocessed in a manner adequate to free them of plant pests or to cause them tobe incapable of harboring, vectoring, being, transmitting, or transportingthose plant pests.
(4) "Plant pest" means any insect, nematode, protozoan,crustacean, or any other invertebrate animal, and any virus, bacterium, fungus,or other member of the plant kingdom, in any stage of development, known to beor suspected of being capable of causing serious injury or damage to, or ofinciting serious diseases in, plants or parts and products of plants, whetherin the field, in storage, or in markets and any animal, plant, plant part orproduct, or inanimate object constituting a source of danger to plants, plantparts and products, by reason of a capacity to constitute a vector, reservoir,alternate host, place of breeding, hibernation refuge, or vehicle ofdistribution, for any of the types of organisms mentioned in this subsection.
(5) "Viruses": All viruses shall be considered to be animate.
(b) Terms or words as used in this chapter are construed toimport either singular or plural form, and either masculine or feminine gender.