§ 33-0101. Definitions.\n 1. "Active ingredient" means:\n a. In the case of a pesticide other than a plant regulator, defoliant\nor desiccant, an ingredient which will prevent, destroy, repel, or\nmitigate insects, fungi, rodents, weeds, or other pests.\n b. In the case of a plant regulator, an ingredient which, through\nphysiological action, will accelerate or retard the rate of growth or\nrate of maturation or otherwise alter the behavior of ornamental or crop\nplants or their produce.\n c. In the case of a defoliant, an ingredient which will cause the\nleaves or foliage to drop from a plant.\n d. In the case of a desiccant, an ingredient which will artificially\naccelerate the drying of plant tissue.\n 2. "Adulterated" shall apply to any pesticide if its strength or\npurity falls below the professed standard or quality as expressed on\nlabeling or under which it is sold, or if any substance has been\nsubstituted wholly or in part for the article, or if any valuable\nconstituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted.\n 3. "Affected area" means the area defined in a petition for the\nprotection of a grape growing area.\n 4. "Agency" means any state agency; municipal corporation; public\nauthority; college, as that term is defined in the education law;\nrailroad, as that term is defined in the railroad law; or telegraph,\ntelephone, telegraph and telephone, pipeline, gas, electric, or gas and\nelectric corporation as those terms are defined in the transportation\ncorporations law, which applies pesticides.\n 5. "Agricultural commodity" means any plant or part thereof, or\nanimal, or animal product, produced by a person (including farmers,\nranchers, vineyardists, plant propagators, Christmas tree growers,\naquaculturists, floriculturists, orchardists, foresters or other\ncomparable persons) primarily for sale, consumption, propagation or\nother use by man or animals.\n 6. "Aircraft" means any contrivance now known, or hereafter invented,\nused or designed for navigation of, or flight in, the air.\n 7. "Antidote" means the most practical immediate treatment in case of\npoisoning and includes first-aid treatment.\n 8. "Application of pesticide" means any application of pesticides by\naircraft or ground equipment.\n 9. "Business registration" means the requirement of each person or\nbusiness providing services of commercial application of pesticides,\neither entirely or as part of the business, to register with the\ndepartment.\n 10. "Certified applicator" means any individual who is certified to\nuse or supervise the use of any pesticide in any category of use covered\nby his certification.\n 11. "Commercial application" means any application of any pesticide\nexcept as defined in private or residential application of pesticides.\n 12. "Defoliant" means any substance or mixture of substances intended\nfor causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without\ncausing abscission.\n 13. "Degradation" means the decomposition of a compound by stages,\nexhibiting well-defined intermediate products.\n 14. "Desiccant" means any substance or mixture of substances intended\nfor artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissue.\n 15. "Development" means natural and normal growth before harvest.\n 16. "Experimental use permit" means a permit issued to an applicant\nfor the use of a limited amount of a pesticide not registered pursuant\nto this article to accumulate data necessary to apply to register the\npesticide.\n 17. "Fungi" means all non-chlorophyll-bearing thallophytes (that is,\nall non-chlorophyll-bearing plants of a lower order than mosses and\nliverworts) as, for example, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, yeast, and\nbacteria, except those on or in living man or other animals.\n 18. "Fungicide" means any substance or mixture of substances intended\nfor preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any fungi.\n 19. "General use pesticide" means a pesticide which does not meet
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