DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

             PESTICIDE AND PLANT PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT DIVISION

                  REGULATION NO. 612. YELLOW RED VIROSIS


(By authority of Act No. 72 of the Public Acts of 1945,  being  S286.251   et 
seq. of the Michigan Compiled Laws)


R  285.612.1   Chokecherries declared public nuisance.
  Rule 1. (1) In order to prevent the further introduction  and   spread   of 
peach "X" disease (yellow red virosis) a serious contagious virus  disease of 
chokecherries (Prunus virginiana) and  peach  and   cherry   trees,   it   is 
hereby necessary to order and declare chokecherries (Prunus virginiana) to be 
a public nuisance. Planting, possessing, growing,  propagating,  selling,  or 
offering for sale plants,  roots,  or  cuttings   of   chokecherries   within 
distances of 500 feet of peach or cherry orchards and 1,000 feet of  peach or 
cherry nursery stock is hereby  prohibited,   and   any   such   plants   now 
growing within the said distances must be eradicated.
  (2) Any roots, cuttings, or plants now planted  or   growing   within   the 
said distances of peach or cherry orchards and  peach   or   cherry   nursery 
stock may be ordered destroyed by  the  director  of   agriculture   or   his 
inspectors.

  History:  1979 AC.