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(b) Packing-house requirements. — The packer and shipper shall maintain his 
packing plant in compliance with the sanitation requirements of the State of 
Texas issued for the suppression of the Mexican fruit worm. The packer shall 
also maintain a complete list of consignees together with the amount and date of 
each shipment, subject to examination by the inspector. 
(c) Applications. — Persons desiring to move or to allow to be moved grape- 
fruit, oranges, or other restricted citrus fruits interstate from the regulated area 
shall make application for a permit to the office of the Bureau of Plant Quaran- 
tine, Harlingen, Tex., as far as possible in advance of the probable date of ship- 
ment. Applications shall show the nature and quantity of the fruit it is pro- 
posed to move, together with the location at which it will be packed, the name 
and address of the shipper, and a list of all groves, together with the names and 
addresses of the owners, from which fruit for packing will be secured. Each 
applicant shall file with his application a signed statement in which he agrees to 
notify the inspector of all additional groves from which fruit for packing will be 
secured, not to pack or ship fruit from any grove until he has received written 
notification from the inspector that the grove has been maintained in compliance 
with the regulations issued under this quarantine, and to discontinue packing 
and shipping the fruit from any grove on notification from the inspector of the 
discovery of an infestation of the Mexican fruit worm in such grove or adjoining 
groves or of failure on the part of the owner or manager of such grove to comply 
with any other restriction of these regulations. 
(d) Containers. — Permits will be issued for the interstate movement of only 
such fruit as is packed in containers customarily used for the commercial ship- 
ment of citrus fruits, or in containers not over 1% bushels in size and of such a 
nature as to indicate clearly the fact that host fruits are contained therein. Water- 
proof-fabric mesh bags in sizes not to exceed 1 % bushels and such other sizes as 
ma} 7 later be authorized by the Bureau of Plant Quarantine are included among 
the containers which may be used for the interstate movement of such fruits. 
(e) Sterilization may be required. — Sterilization in manner and by method pre- 
scribed by the United States Department of Agriculture may be required as a 
condition for the issuance of permits for interstate movement when in the judg- 
ment of the inspector the shipments concerned might, either on account of con- 
ditions at the point of production or packing or on account of the destination to 
which the shipment is sent, involve risk of spread of the Mexican fruit worm. 
(/) Destination limitations. — Permits may be limited as to destination and 
when so limited will not be valid for shipment to destination points or areas 
other than those specified in said permit. When a limited destination is speci- 
fied, such limitation shall remain and continue as a restriction on the distribu- 
tion of such fruit either in the original containers or otherwise until the said 
fruit has been consumed or has been manufactured or processed in such way as 
to eliminate danger of carrying Mexican fruit worm. 
(g) Cancellation of permits. — Any permits issued under these regulations may 
be withdrawn or canceled and further permits refused either for any failure of 
compliance with these regulations or violation of them, or whenever in the judg- 
ment of the inspector the further use of such permits might result in the dissemi- 
nation of infestation. The use of shipping permits by a shipper or packer is pro- 
hibited either after he has been notified of their cancellation or on packages con- 
taining fruit from groves not included in the list he has filed with the inspector 
or on packages containing fruit which he has been notified to discontinue to ship. 
Regulation 7. Conditions Required in the Regulated Areas 
The interstate movement of grapefruit, oranges, and other restricted citrus 
fruit from the regulated areas under permits issued by the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture will be conditioned on the State of Texas providing for and 
enforcing the following control measures in manner and by method approved by 
the United States Department of Agriculture, namely: 
SECTION A. HOST-FREE PERIOD 
A host-free period shall be maintained each year beginning in the month of 
March and continuing for seven months, subject to such modification as to dura- 
tion and dates of commencement and termination as may be authorized by the 
United States Department of Agriculture on presentation of evidence that such 
modification is necessary or desirable and does not involve increase of risk of 
propagating the Mexican fruit worm. 
