Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
Article 1 - Definitions
California Food and Agricultural Code — §§ 12751-12759
Sections (12)
Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.
“Defoliating” includes killing or artifically accelerating the drying of plant tissues, with or without causing abscission.
Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 361, Sec. 27. Effective January 1, 1997.
“Pesticide” includes any of the following:
(a)Any spray adjuvant.
(b)Any substance, or mixture of substances which is intended to be used for defoliating plants, regulating plant growth, or for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, as defined in Section 12754.5, which may infest or be detrimental to vegetation, man, animals, or households, or be present in any agricultural or nonagricultural environment whatsoever.
Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.
“Insect” means any animal within the class of animals which are known as “Insecta” or any similar animal such as a centipede, spider, mite, tick, or louse.
Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 161, Sec. 2. Effective June 10, 1988. Note: See this section as modified on July 17, 1991, in Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1991.
“Pest” means any of the following that is, or is liable to become, dangerous or detrimental to the agricultural or nonagricultural environment of the state:
(a)Any insect, predatory animal, rodent, nematode, or weed.
(b)Any form of terrestrial, aquatic, or aerial plant or animal, virus, fungus, bacteria, or other microorganism (except viruses, fungi, bacteria, or other microorganisms on or in living man or other living animals).
(c)Anything that the director, by regulation, declares to be a pest.
Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 361, Sec. 28. Effective January 1, 1997.
“Registrant” means a person that has registered a pesticide and has obtained a certificate of registration from the department.
Repealed and added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 686.
“Regulating plant growth” means the use of any substance or mixture of substances intended, through physiological action, for accelerating or retarding the rate of growth or rate of maturation, or for otherwise altering the behavior of plants or the produce thereof.
However, it shall not include the use of substances to the extent that they are intended as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculants, and soil amendments.
Also, “regulating plant growth” shall not be required to include at all the use of any of such of those nutriment mixtures or soil amendments as are commonly known as vitamin-hormone horticultural products, intended for improvement, maintenance, survival, health, and propagation of plants and are not for pest destruction and are nontoxic, nonpoisonous in the undiluted packaged concentration.
Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.
“Rodent” means all members of the order Rodentia and all rabbits and hares.
Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 361, Sec. 29. Effective January 1, 1997.
“Service container” means any container, other than the original labeled container of a registered pesticide provided by the registrant, that is utilized to hold, store, or transport the pesticide or the use-dilution of the pesticide.
Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 361, Sec. 30. Effective January 1, 1997.
“Spray adjuvant” means any wetting agent, spreading agent, deposit builder, adhesive, emulsifying agent, deflocculating agent, water modifier, or similar agent, with or without toxic properties of its own, which is intended to be used with another pesticide as an aid to the application or effect of the other pesticide, and sold in a package that is separate from that of the pesticide other than a spray adjuvant with which it is to be used.
Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 361, Sec. 31. Effective January 1, 1997.
“Use-dilution” means a dilution specified on the label or labeling that produces the concentration of the pesticide for a particular purpose or effect.
Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.
“Weed” means any plant which grows where not wanted.