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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="9-404" title_number="9" title_name="Regulation and Supervision of Seeds, Turf Grass, Sod, Potatoes, Ginseng and Noxious Weeds" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Weed Control">
  <level label="a">
    <text>No person may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Import or transport a noxious weed in the State in any form capable of growth; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
</section>
