Article 1. Notice Of Arrival And Hold For Inspection of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 4. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.

It is unlawful for any person to transport, receive, or import into the state any plant or any thing against which a quarantine has been established, or any plant, unless he does both of the following:
  (a) Notifies the director or the commissioner of the county in which the plant or thing is received, of the arrival of the plant or thing immediately after its arrival.
  (b) Holds the plant, or thing for immediate inspection by the director or commissioner, without unnecessarily moving it, or placing it where it may be harmful.

If there is no commissioner in the county where the plant or thing is received, the person that transports, receives, or imports the plant or thing into the state shall notify the director, who shall make immediate arrangements for its inspection.

The officer who makes the inspection may enter at any time into any conveyance or place within the state where the plant or thing is located to ascertain whether it is, or is liable to be, infested or infected with any pest.

The secretary may enter into agreements with regulatory officials of other states and the United States Department of Agriculture to provide for the use of various pest risk mitigation measures at the place of origin of the shipment of the plants. The agreement may designate the plants or varieties of plants to which those measures are applied as being commodities that may be released upon arrival at ports of entry or terminals in this state without being held and inspected for compliance with standards and quarantine requirements.

(a) Any certificate that has been altered, defaced, or improperly completed or changed is void.
  (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to do any of the following:
  (1) Alter, deface, or otherwise falsify or change, a certificate that is attached to any plant shipment or other thing entering the state.
  (2) Use, or have in his or her possession, any certificate that has been altered, defaced, or otherwise falsified or changed.
  (3) Transport, receive, or possess any plant material represented by a certificate.
  (c) For purposes of this section, "certificate" means a certificate issued pursuant to a quarantine regulation.