4-14-2 - Definitions.
4-14-2. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Active ingredient" means an ingredient that:
(a) prevents, destroys, repels, controls, or mitigates pests; or
(b) acts as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant.
(2) "Adulterated pesticide" means a pesticide with a strength or purity that is below thestandard of quality expressed on the label under which it is offered for sale.
(3) "Animal" means all vertebrate or invertebrate species.
(4) "Beneficial insect" means an insect that is:
(a) an effective pollinator of plants;
(b) a parasite or predator of pests; or
(c) otherwise beneficial.
(5) "Defoliant" means a substance or mixture intended to cause leaves or foliage to dropfrom a plant, with or without causing abscission.
(6) "Desiccant" means a substance or mixture intended to artificially accelerate thedrying of plant or animal tissue.
(7) "Distribute" means to offer for sale, sell, barter, ship, deliver for shipment, receive,deliver, or offer to deliver pesticides in this state.
(8) "Environment" means all living plants and animals, water, air, land, and theinterrelationships that exist between them.
(9) (a) "Equipment" means any type of ground, water, or aerial equipment or contrivanceusing motorized, mechanical, or pressurized power to apply a pesticide.
(b) "Equipment" does not mean any pressurized hand-sized household apparatus used toapply a pesticide or any equipment or contrivance used to apply a pesticide that is dependentsolely upon energy expelled by the person making the pesticide application.
(10) "EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(11) "FIFRA" means the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.
(12) (a) "Fungus" means a nonchlorophyll-bearing thallophyte or anonchlorophyll-bearing plant of an order lower than mosses and liverworts, including rust, smut,mildew, mold, yeast, and bacteria.
(b) "Fungus" does not include fungus existing on or in:
(i) a living person or other animal; or
(ii) processed food, beverages, or pharmaceuticals.
(13) "Insect" means an invertebrate animal generally having a more or less obviouslysegmented body:
(a) usually belonging to the Class Insecta, comprising six-legged, usually winged forms,including beetles, bugs, bees, and flies; and
(b) allied classes of arthropods that are wingless usually having more than six legs,including spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, and wood lice.
(14) "Label" means any written, printed, or graphic matter on, or attached to, a pesticideor a container or wrapper of a pesticide.
(15) (a) "Labeling" means all labels and all other written, printed, or graphic matter:
(i) accompanying a pesticide or equipment; or
(ii) to which reference is made on the label or in literature accompanying a pesticide orequipment.
(b) "Labeling" does not include any written, printed, or graphic matter created by theEPA, the United States Departments of Agriculture or Interior, the Department of Health,Education, and Welfare, state experimental stations, state agricultural colleges, and other federalor state institutions or agencies authorized by law to conduct research in the field of pesticides.
(16) "Land" means land, water, air, and plants, animals, structures, buildings,contrivances, and machinery appurtenant or situated thereon, whether fixed or mobile, includingany used for transportation.
(17) "Misbranded" means any label or labeling that is false or misleading or that does notstrictly comport with the label and labeling requirements set forth in Section 4-14-4.
(18) "Misuse" means use of any pesticide in a manner inconsistent with its label orlabeling.
(19) "Nematode" means invertebrate animals of the Phylum Nemathelminthes and ClassNematoda, including unsegmented round worms with elongated, fusiform, or saclike bodiescovered with cuticle, also known as nemas or eelworms.
(20) (a) "Pest" means:
(i) any insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed; or
(ii) any other form of terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life, virus, bacteria, or othermicroorganism that is injurious to health or to the environment or that the department declares tobe a pest.
(b) "Pest" does not include:
(i) viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms on or in a living person or other livinganimal; or
(ii) protected wildlife species identified in Section 23-13-2 that are regulated by theDivision of Wildlife Resources in accordance with Sections 23-14-1 through 23-14-3.
(21) "Pesticide" means any:
(a) substance or mixture of substances including a living organism that is intended toprevent, destroy, control, repel, attract, or mitigate any insect, rodent, nematode, snail, slug,fungus, weed, or other form of plant or animal life that is normally considered to be a pest or thatthe commissioner declares to be a pest;
(b) any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used as a plant regulator,defoliant, or desiccant;
(c) any spray adjuvant, such as a wetting agent, spreading agent, deposit builder,adhesive, or emulsifying agent with deflocculating properties of its own used with a pesticide toaid its application or effect; and
(d) any other substance designated by the department by rule.
(22) "Pesticide applicator" is a person who:
(a) applies or supervises the application of a pesticide; and
(b) is required by this chapter to have a license.
(23) (a) "Pesticide applicator business" means an entity that:
(i) is authorized to do business in this state; and
(ii) offers pesticide application services.
(b) "Pesticide applicator business" does not include an individual licensed agriculturalapplicator who may work for hire.
(24) "Pesticide dealer" means any person who distributes restricted use pesticides.
(25) (a) "Plant regulator" means any substance or mixture intended, through
physiological action, to accelerate or retard the rate of growth or rate of maturation, or otherwisealter the behavior of ornamental or crop plants.
(b) "Plant regulator" does not include plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritionalchemicals, plant inoculants, or soil amendments.
(26) "Restricted use pesticide" means:
(a) a pesticide, including a highly toxic pesticide that is a serious hazard to beneficialinsects, animals, or land; or
(b) any pesticide or pesticide use restricted by the administrator of EPA or by thecommissioner.
(27) "Weed" means any plant that grows where not wanted.
(28) "Wildlife" means all living things that are neither human, domesticated, nor pests.
Amended by Chapter 370, 2007 General Session