Sec. 1. 7 MRSA §601, as enacted by PL 1975, c. 382, §3, is amended to read:

§601. Title

This subchapter shall may be known and cited as the "Maine Pesticide Control Act of 1975."

Sec. 2. 7 MRSA §602, as repealed and replaced by PL 1993, c. 349, §22, is amended to read:

§602. Enforcing official

This subchapter is administered by the Board of Pesticides Control, hereinafter referred to in this subchapter as the "board.," established in Title 5, section 12004-D, subsection 3 and further described in Title 22, chapter 258-A.

Sec. 3. 7 MRSA §604, as amended by PL 1989, c. 878, Pt. E, §2, is further amended to read:

§604. Definitions

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following words shall terms have the following meanings.

1. Active ingredient. "Active ingredient" means any ingredient which that will prevent, destroy, repel, control or mitigate pests, or which that will act as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant.

2. Adulterated. "Adulterated," shall apply to any pesticide if its strength or purity falls below the professed standard of quality as expressed on its labeling under which it is sold, or if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the pesticide, or if any valuable constituent of the pesticide has been wholly or in part abstracted. as applied to a pesticide, means that:

A.__The pesticide's strength or purity falls below the standard of quality as expressed on the labeling under which it is sold;

B.__A substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the pesticide; or