Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-3-50.3: Definitions

As used in the Boll Weevil Eradication Act:

1. "Board of directors" means the board of directors of the

Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication Organization elected pursuant to

the provisions of the Boll Weevil Eradication Act;

2. "Boll weevil" means the insect Anthonomus grandis Boheman,

in any stage of development, including the egg, larval, pupal and

adult stages;

3. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Oklahoma

Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry or designee;

4. "Cotton" means a cotton plant or any part of it including

bolls, stalk, flowers, root, or leaves or cotton products such as

seed cotton, cottonseed, and hulls;

5. "Eligible cotton grower" means any person actively engaged

in the production of cotton either currently or in any two (2) of

the three (3) years immediately preceding the calling of an election

or a referendum;

6. "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture,

Food, and Forestry;

7. “Eradicated area” means an area free of boll weevil;

8. "Host" means any plant or plant product in which the boll

weevil is capable of completing any portion of its life cycle;

9. "Infested" means the presence of the boll weevil in any life

stage or the existence of circumstances that make it reasonable to

believe that the boll weevil is present;

10. "Organization" means the Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication

Organization established pursuant to the provisions of the Boll

Weevil Eradication Act;

11. "Regulated article" means any article carrying or capable

of carrying the boll weevil, including but not limited to cotton

plants, seed cotton, gin trash, other hosts, or cotton harvesting

equipment; and

12. “Quarantined area” means any area or part of the state

designated as quarantined by the State Board of Agriculture at the

request of the Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication Organization.