Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 80. AGRICULTURE

CHAPTER 7. DISEASE, PEST, AND WEED CONTROL

Part 7. Weed Control

Regulation Of Importation Or Sale Of Noxious Weeds

80-7-701. Regulation of importation or sale of noxious weeds. (1) As used in this section:

(a) "native plant" means a plant indigenous to the state of Montana; and

(b) "native plant community" means an assemblage of native plants occurring in a natural habitat.

(2) The department may regulate or prohibit the importation or sale of grain, plants, seed, tubers, nursery stock, fruit, or other materials containing noxious weed seed or plants harmful to Montana's horticultural, agricultural, forestry, livestock, wildlife, or native plant communities.

History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 195, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 44, L. 1965; amd. Sec. 117, Ch. 218, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 16-1708; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 303, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 98, L. 2003.