902                               Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 536

enacted in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the sections so
repealed, and to read as follows:

134. Title. This sub-title shall be known as the "Maryland Pesticide
Law of 1958". It shall be administered by the State Chemist as
appointed by the State Board of Agriculture, hereinafter referred to
as State Chemist.

135. Definitions, (a) For the purpose of this sub-title:

(b)   The term "pesticide" means any substance or mixture of
substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or miti-
gating any insects, rodents, fungi, weeds, or other forms of plant
or animal life or viruses, except viruses on or in living man or other
animals, which the State Chemist shall declare to be a pest.

(c)   The term "insecticide" means any substance or mixture of
substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or miti-
gating any insects which may be present in any environment whatso-
ever.

(d)   The term "fungicide" means any substance or mixture of
substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or miti-
gating any fungi.

(e)  The term "rodenticide" means any substance or mixture of
substances intended for prevening, destroying, repelling, or miti-
gating rodents or any other vertebrate animal which the State
Chemist shall declare to be a pest.

(f)   The term "herbicide" means any substance or mixture of
substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or miti-
gating any weedy, or for foliating plants, preventing fruit drop,
and inhibiting sprouting.

(g)  The term "insect" means any of the numerous small inverte-
brate animals generally having the body more or less obviously
segmented, for the most part belonging to the class Insecta, com-
prising six-legged, usually winged forms, as, for example, beetles,
bugs, bees, flies; and to other allied classes of arthropods whose
members are wingless and usually have more than six legs, as for
example, spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, and wood lice.

(h) The term "fungi" means all non-chlorophyll-bearing thallo-
phytes (that is, all non-chlorophyll-bearing plants of a lower order
than mosses and liverworts) as, for example, rusts, smuts, mildews,
molds, yeasts, and bacteria, except those on or in living man or
animals.

(i) The term "nematocide" means any substance or mixture of
substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or miti-
gating nematodes, other worms, or any other intertebrates IN-
VERTEBRATES which are destructive, constitute a liability, and
may be declared a pest.

(j) The term "weed" means any plant or plant part which grows
where not wanted.

(k) The term "ingredient statement" means either—