WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                    Ch. 302

Section 5-204(13) and (14), 5-208, 5-210.2, and 5-210.4

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Agriculture

5-201.

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings
indicated.

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

(c)  "Certified applicator" means any individual to whom the
Secretary has issued a certificate under this subtitle.

(d)  "Custom applicator" means any person who is engaged in
the business of applying by air, ground, hand, or mechanical
equipment, pesticides to water, land, plants, farm structures, or
animals.

(e)  "Defoliant" means any substance or mixture of
substances intended to cause leaves or foliage to drop from a
plant, with or without causing abscission.

(f)  "Desiccant" means any substance or mixture of
substances intended to accelerate artificially the drying of
plant tissues.

(g)  "Device" means any instrument or mechanical device
intended to trap, destroy, control, repel, or mitigate pests.

(h) "General use pesticide" means a pesticide so classified
by the federal government..

(i) "Pest" means (1) any     insect, snail, slug, rodent,

nematode, fungus, weed, or (2)   any other form of terrestrial or

- aquatic plant or animal life     or virus, bacteria, or other
microorganism (except viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms

on or in living man or any other   living animal) which normally is

considered to be a pest or which   the Secretary declares to be a
pest.

(j) "Pesticide" means (1) any substance or mixture of
substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or
mitigating any pest, (2) any substance or mixture of substances
intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant,

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