§ 9-404. Importing, transporting, or permitting infestation

   (a) Importing, transporting, or permitting infestation prohibited. -- No person may:

   (1) Import or transport a noxious weed in the State in any form capable of growth; or

   (2) Contaminate any uninfested land with a noxious weed through the movement of rootstocks, seed, soil, mulch, nursery stock, farm machinery, or any other artificial medium.

(b) Care of infested lands. -- Each landowner, including a landowner of public land, or person who possesses and manages land infested with a noxious weed shall eradicate or control the noxious weed on that land by using practices that the Secretary prescribes, including mowing, cultivating, or treating with an approved herbicide.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 48, § 203; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 6, § 1; 1979, ch. 153; 1984, ch. 362; 1987, ch. 484.