HB 52 - AS INTRODUCED
1999 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 52
AN ACT exempting certain currants and gooseberries resistant to the white pine blister rust organism from restrictions on planting in control areas.
SPONSORS: Rep. Melcher, Hills 11; Rep. Owen, Merr 6; Sen. F. King, Dist 1
COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture
This bill exempts certain currants and gooseberries resistant to the white pine blister rust organism from planting restrictions.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
99-0020
08/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine
AN ACT exempting certain currants and gooseberries resistant to the white pine blister rust organism from restrictions on planting in control areas.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; White Pine Blister Control Areas; Planting. Amend RSA 227-K:6 to read as follows:
227-K:6 Planting Currant or Gooseberry Bushes Within Control Area.
I. Except as provided in paragraph II, no person shall plant any currant or gooseberry bush within a control area without the permission of the director.
II. Those cultivars of currants, gooseberries, or other ribes crosses that have been determined to be resistant to the white pine blister rust organism by the agricultural experiment station or United States Department of Agriculture researchers may be planted within a control area.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.