SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1523

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE PURGASON.

         Read 1^st time February 19, 2004, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 263.450, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to noxious weed designations.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 263.450, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 263.450, to read as follows:

            263.450. As used in sections 263.450 to 263.474, the term "noxious weed" includes bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense), multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) except when cultivated for or used as understock for cultivated roses, Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), musk thistle (Carduus nutans L.), Scotch thistle (Onoprodum acanthium L.), purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), spotted knapweed (Centaurea biebersteinii), and any other weed designated as noxious by rules and regulations promulgated by the director of the department of agriculture.