1390                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 593

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved May 14, 1969.

CHAPTER 593
(Senate Bill 283)

AN ACT to add new Sections HOB through 110K, 110L, inclusive, to
Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Agriculture," to follow immediately after
Section 110A thereof and to be under the new subtitle "Pesti-
cides," to regulate the use of pesticides in this State, to grant the
State Board of Agriculture certain powers and duties concerning
the use and disposal of pesticides, to create an Advisory Com-
mittee on Pesticides, to provide penalties for violation of the
provisions of this Act, and generally dealing with pesticides in
Maryland.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections HOB through 110K, 110L, inclusive, be and they
are hereby added to Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Replacement Volume), title "Agriculture," to follow imme-
diately after Section 110A thereof, to be under the new subtitle
"Pesticides," and to read as follows:

Pesticides
110B.

As used in this subtitle:

(a)  "Board" means the State Board of Agriculture.

(b)  "Agent or authorized agent" means an agent of the State
Board of Agriculture.

(c)  "Pesticide" means (1) any substance or mixture of substance
intended to prevent, destroy, control, repel, or mitigate any insect
or related arthropod, rodent, nematode, predatory animal, snail,
slug, fungus, bacterium, weed and any other form of plant or animal
life or virus, except virus on or in living man or other animal, that
may infest, infect or be detrimental to vegetation, man, animal,
structure, or household or be present in any environment, or which
the Board may declare to be a pest, and (2) any substance or
mixture of substances intended to be used as a plant regulator,
defoliant or desiccant, (3) any spray adjuvant, such as a wetting
agent, spreading agent, deposit builder, adhesive, emulsifying agent,
deflocculating agent, water modifier, or similar agent with or with-
out toxic properties of its own, intended to be used with any other
pesticide as an aid to the application or effect thereof, and sold in
a package or container separate from that of the pesticide with
which it is to be used, and (4) any other substances which the Board
may identify as pesticides by formal action.

(d)  "Pest" means any insect or related arthropod, rodent, nema-
tode, snail, slug, weed, and any form of plant or animal life or