3.2-714 - Definitions.
§ 3.2-714. Definitions.
As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Executive committee" means the committee established pursuant to § 3.2-719of this compact.
"Executive head" means the Governor.
"Governing board" means the administrators of this compact representing allof the party states when such administrators are acting as a body inpursuance of authority vested in them by this compact.
"Insurance fund" means the Pest Control Insurance Fund established pursuantto this compact.
"Pest" means any invertebrate animal, pathogen, parasitic plant, or similaror allied organism that can cause disease or damage in any crops, trees,shrubs, grasses, or other plants of substantial value.
"Requesting state" means a state that invokes the procedures of the compactto secure the undertaking or intensification of measures to control oreradicate one or more pests within one or more other states.
"Responding state" means a state requested to undertake or intensifymeasures to control or eradicate one or more pests.
(1970, c. 174, §§ 3.1-188.3, 3.1-188.18; 2008, c. 860.)