As used in this chapter, unless specified otherwise herein:
AGENCY:
A. In the case of the federal government, any authority which exercises administrative control over defined areas of federal property within the county;
B. In the case of the state of Idaho, any department, board, commission or institution;
C. In the case of the county, cities and any legal subdivisions thereof, drainage districts, highway districts or any special taxing district.
COMMISSIONERS: The board of county commissioners.
CONTAINMENT: Prevention of seed production, seed dissemination and/or production of new plants by vegetative means.
COUNTY: Kootenai County, Idaho.
COUNTY NOXIOUS WEED: Any nonnative kind or species of plant or propagule thereof having the potential to cause injury to public welfare, including, but not limited to, health, crops, livestock, land or other property; and for which it is feasible to devote county resources for purposes of eradication, prevention or otherwise protecting the county or part thereof from infestation by such weed, and which is designated as noxious by the board of county commissioners, but does not refer to weeds declared noxious by rules and regulations promulgated under authority of Idaho Code title 22, chapter 24.
ERADICATION: Completely eliminating all aboveground plant growth of a target county noxious weed species for a time period longer than the expected longevity of propagules of the species.
LAND: All soil or water or other growing media.
NONNATIVE: Any plant species so determined by reference to standard, recognized scientific documents such as "flora of the Pacific Northwest".
PERSON AND/OR PEOPLE: Any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, company, society, association, drainage district irrigation district, highway district or any taxing district or other organization.
PREVENTION: Action designed to stop the introduction or establishment of a plant species in areas not currently infested with that species.
QUARANTINE: The regulation of the production, movement or existence of plants, plant products, animals, animal products or any other article or material, or the normal activity of persons, to prevent or limit introduction or spread of a county noxious weed.
SPECIAL MANAGEMENT ZONE: An area wherein the requirements of this chapter to control certain named county noxious weeds may be suspended or modified in any other way.
WEED: County noxious weed.
WEED CONTROL: Any and all of the following: prevention, eradication or containment. (Ord. 168, 3-27-1991)