1344                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 438

CHAPTER 438
(Senate Bill 661)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 110A-1
through 110A-6 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1970 Replacement Volume), title "Natural Resources," subtitle
"Agriculture," subheading "Pesticides," authorizing the licensing
and regulation of pest control operators, and regulating the sale,
distribution, and exchange of pesticides and containers. AND GEN-
ERALLY CONCERNING LICENSING OF THOSE IN THE
PEST CONTROL BUSINESS.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 110A-1 through 110A-6 of Article 66C of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume), title "Natural
Resources", subtitle "Agriculture", subheading "Pesticides", be and
they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

110A-1.

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 sub-
stances intended to be used as a plant regulator, defoliant or desic-
cant, (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 without toxic prop-
erties 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 virus,
except virus on or in living man or other animal, which is normally
considered to be a pest or which the Board may declare to be a pest.

(e)   "Application" means the spreading of pesticides, by contract
or otherwise, for any person owning or renting property.

(f)  "Device" means any instrument or contrivance intended to
trap, destroy, control, repel or mitigate pests, or to destroy, con-
trol, repel or mitigate fungi nematodes or such other pests as may
be designated by the Board.