LIST OF CURRENT QUARANTINES AND OTHER RESTRICTIVE 
ORDERS AND MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS 
[The domestic and foreign quarantines and other restrictive orders summarized herein 
are issued under the authority of the plant quarantine act of Aug. 20, 1912, as amended. 
The Mexican border regulations and the export-certification regulations are issued under 
specific acts of Congress.] 
QUARANTINE ORDERS 
The numbers assigned to these quarantines indicate merely the chronological 
order of issuance of both domestic and foreign quarantines in one numerical 
series. The quarantine numbers missing in this list are quarantines which have 
either been superseded or revoked. For convenience of reference these quaran- 
tines are here classified as domestic and foreign, the domestic quarantines being 
divided into (1) those applying primarily to the continental United States, and 
(2) those applying primarily to shipments from and to the Territories of Hawaii 
and Puerto Rico. 
Domestic Plant Quarantines 
quarantines applying to the continental united states 
Date palms. — Quarantine No. 6, effective March 24, 1913, as amended ef- 
fective December 1, 1932: Prohibits, except as provided in the rules and 
regulations supplemental thereto, the interstate movement of date palms and 
date-palm offshoots from Riverside County, Calif., east of the San Bernardino 
meridian ; Imperial County, Calif. ; Yuma, Maricopa, and Pinal Counties, Ariz. ; 
and Webb County, Tex., on account of the Parlatoria scale (Parlatoria 
blancliardi) . 
Black-stem rust. — Quarantine No. 38, revised, effective August 1, 1931: Pro- 
hibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto 
effective August 1, 1931, the movement into any of the protected States, namely, 
Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, 
North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, as well as the 
movement from any one of said protected States into any other protected State, 
•of the common barberry (Berberis vulgaris), or other species of Berberis or 
Mahonia or parts thereof capable of propagation, on account of the black-stem 
rust of grains. 
Gypsy moth and brown-tail moth. — Quarantine No. 45, effective July 1, 1920: 
Prohibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
revised effective June 1, 1931, the movement interstate to any point outside of 
the infested area, or from points in the generally infested area to points in the 
lightly infested area, of stone or quarry products, and of the plants and the 
plant products listed therein. The quarantine covers Rhode Island and parts 
of the States of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and 
Vermont. 
Japanese beetle. — Quarantine No. 48, revised, effective January 1, 1933 : Pro- 
hibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
effective December 1, 1933, the interstate movement of (1) fruits and vegetables ; 
(2) nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock and other plants; and (3) sand, 
soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure, from the quarantined areas to or 
through any point outside thereof. The quarantined area includes the entire 
States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware, 
and the District of Columbia, and portions of the States of Maine, New Hamp- 
shire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. 
Pink bollworm. — Quarantine No. 52, revised, effective December 23, 1933: 
Prohibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
effective December 23, 1933, the interstate movement from the regulated areas 
of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, and Georgia, of (1) cotton, wild 
cotton, including all parts of either cotton or wild cotton plants, seed cotton, 
cotton lint, linters, and all other forms of unmanufactured cotton fiber, gin 
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