658                               Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 326

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138 and 139 of
Article 48 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replacement
Volume), title "Inspection," subtitle "Maryland Pesticide Law of
1958," be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, and to read as follows:

130.

(a)  For the purpose of this subtitle:

(b)  The term "pesticide" means (1) any substance or mixture of
substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigat-
ing 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; and (2)
any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant
regulator, defoliant or desiccant.

(c)   The term "insecticide" means any substance or mixture of
substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigat-
ing 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 preventing, 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 weed.

(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 nonchlorophyll-bearing thallo-
phytes (that is, all noncholorphyll-bearing plants of a lower order
than mosses and liverworts) as, for example, rusts, smuts, mildews,
molds, yeasts and bacteria, except those other vertebrate animals;

(i) The term "nematocide" means any substance or mixture of
substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigat-
ing nematodes [, other worms, or any other invertebrates 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—