Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-3-32.1

As used in this subarticle:

1. “Broker” means any person who negotiates the purchase or

sale of any nursery stock. A broker may or may not handle the

nursery stock or the proceeds of a sale;

2. “Certificate” means a document authorized or prepared by a

duly authorized federal or state regulatory official that affirms,

declares, or verifies that an article, nursery stock, plant,

product, shipment, or any other officially regulated items meet

phytosanitary, quarantine, nursery inspection, pest freedom, plant

registration or certification, or any other set of legal

requirements;

3. “Compliance agreement” means any written document between a

person and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and

Forestry or the United States Department of Agriculture to achieve

compliance with any set of requirements being enforced by the

Department;

4. “Cultivar” means a horticulturally, silviculturally, or

agriculturally derived cultivated variety of a plant, as

distinguished from a natural variety;

5. “Dealer" means any person who sells, brokers, or distributes

nursery stock that was not grown from seeds, cuttings, liners, or

similar propagative material by that person but was bought, received

on consignment, or acquired and in the person’s possession for the

purposes of resale;

6. “Facilities" means and includes all buildings, greenhouses,

storage places, cellars, pits, trenches, bins, containers, packing

materials, crates, packing rooms, display bins, refrigerators, ice

boxes, and any other structures and materials used in storing,

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transporting, and distributing nursery stock. The nursery, dealer,

or agent shall maintain the facilities as are necessary for the

proper care and conservation of nursery stock;

7. “Grower” means any person who raises, grows, or propagates

for profit or other reasons any nursery stock or plant;

8. “Heel yard” means any plant holding area;

9. "Horticulture" means the discipline of agriculture science

relating to the cultivation of gardens or orchards, including, but

not limited to the growing of vegetables, flowers, and ornamental

trees and shrubs;

10. “Landscaper” means a person who purchases nursery stock and

offers that stock for sale or planting through landscape services

and typically does not hold and maintain plants in a heel yard or

nursery;

11. “Native species” means a species that, other than due to an

introduction, historically occurred or currently occurs in that

ecosystem;

12. "Nursery” means and includes any field, ground, greenhouse,

bin, pit, plot, or premise where nursery or floral stock is grown,

propagated, or sold;

13. “Nursery operator” means the person who owns, leases,

manages, or is in control of a nursery, and any person who is a

grower of nursery stock;

14. “Nursery stock” means and includes, whether in field or

container, all trees, shrubs, vines, rosebushes, turfgrass,

cuttings, grafts, scions, fruit pits, herbaceous plants, evergreens

and other ornamental trees, bushes, collected wild plants and trees,

decorative plants, tropical plants, flowering plants, bedding

plants, vegetable plants for transplanting, aquatic plants, roots,

corms, rhizomes, bulbs, and ferns grown for propagation, all packing

materials, and other things used in the handling, storing, crating,

and shipping of nursery stock. “Nursery stock” does not include cut

Christmas trees, wreaths, seeds, vegetables or fruits, agronomic

crops, cut or dried flowers, and cut or dried herbs;

15. “Phytosanitary certificate” means a document issued by the

Department indicating that the specified live plants or plant

products comply with the legal requirements of the importing state

or country. The document may be either a State Phytosanitary

Certificate or Federal Phytosanitary Certificate;

16. “Place of business” means each separate store, stand, sales
rs, and cut or dried herbs;

15. “Phytosanitary certificate” means a document issued by the

Department indicating that the specified live plants or plant

products comply with the legal requirements of the importing state

or country. The document may be either a State Phytosanitary

Certificate or Federal Phytosanitary Certificate;

16. “Place of business” means each separate store, stand, sales

lot, or any other place at or from which nursery stock is being sold

or offered for sale;

17. “Plant pest” means any pest known to cause damage or harm

to plants, agricultural commodities, horticultural products, nursery

stock, silvicultural interests, or the environment. Plant pest

includes, but is not limited to, insects, snails, nematodes, fungi,

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viruses, bacterium, microorganisms, mycoplasma-like organisms,

weeds, plants, or other parasitic higher plants;

18. “Sales location” means any principal business location

where nursery stock is sold directly to a customer;

19. “Sell” means to offer for sale, expose for sale, possess

for sale, exchange, barter, or trade;

20. "Silviculture" means the development and care of forests;

21. “Stop sale” means a legal document issued by the State

Board of Agriculture that prevents the production of or sale of

nursery stock due to an infestation of a plant pest; and

22. “Turfgrass sod” means a strip or section of one or more

grasses or other plants acceptable for lawn plantings which, when

severed from its growing site, contains sufficient plant roots to

remain intact, and does not contain weeds in excess of the amount

specified by the Board.