11-9-101. Definitions.
(a) As used in W.S. 11-9-101 through 11-9-109:
(i) "Nursery" means any ground, place or establishment where nursery stock is grown, offered for sale, sold, distributed or is offered as part of a landscape service;
(ii) "Nursery stock" means:
(A) All field-grown, greenhouse-grown or collected wild stock of woody plants such as fruit, forest, windbreak, shade and ornamental trees, shrubs or vines for fruit production, ornamental or protective plantings and herbaceous perennials used as ornamentals;
(B) All plants, rooted cuttings and plants with roots attached grown from bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes or other vegetative parts, whether produced out-of-doors or under glass and whether grown in open ground or in benches, boxes, pots or other containers;
(C) All bulbs, corms, pips, rhizomes, tubers, roots, cuttings, scions, grafts or other vegetative parts of plants; and
(D) All ground cover, including sod, plugs and vegetative mulches and compost.
(iii) "Nursery stock" shall not include prohibited, restricted, regulated or designated noxious weeds;
(iv) "Nursery stock dealers" means any person who obtains nursery stock to be offered for sale or distribution;
(v) "Nursery stock salesman" means any person selling, distributing or soliciting orders for delivery of nursery stock directly to the ultimate consumer from a supply on hand at a location other than a nursery stock dealer's place of business;
(vi) "Injurious insect" means any animal of the phylum Arthropoda known to be injurious to agricultural or horticultural plants;
(vii) "Other pest" means any animal of the phyla Mollusca or Nematoda or parasitic plant, plant parasite or other vector known to be injurious to agricultural or horticultural plants;
(viii) "Plant disease" means any fungi, bacteria, or virus injurious to plants and plant products;
(ix) "Plant inspection or health certificate" means a legal document issued by the department or the plant regulatory agency of another state declaring that the nursery stock being sold or distributed is apparently free of injurious insects, plant diseases, other pests and prohibited, restricted, regulated or designated noxious weeds;
(x) "Vector" means an insect, plant or other organism that transmits an insect, fungus, virus, bacterium or other infection;
(xi) "Designated noxious weed" means as defined in W.S. 11-5-102(a)(xi);
(xii) "Substantially free" means any injurious insect, other pest or plant disease is not locatable in groups or not affecting more than one percent (1%) of the nursery stock.
(b) These definitions do not include cut Christmas trees, cut flowers, seeds, seed potatoes or plant parts grown or offered for consumption as human food or as feed for animals.
(c) Age, when stated on any advertisement, label or sign in connection with the sale or offering for sale or distribution of nursery stock, shall be stated in years from time at which such nursery stock was propagated and each shall indicate the completion in autumn of one (1) seasonal growth period.