LD 1890
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including animal.__"Device" does not include equipment used for the
application of pesticides when sold separately therefrom from
pesticides.

 
9. Distribute. "Distribute" means to offer for sale, hold
for sale, sell, barter, ship, deliver for shipment or receive
and, having so received, deliver or offer to deliver, pesticides
in this State.

 
10. Environment. "Environment" includes water, air, and land
and all plants and man human beings and other animals living
therein, and the interrelationships which that exist among these.

 
11. EPA. "EPA" means the United States Environmental
Protection Agency.

 
12. FIFRA. "FIFRA" means the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide
and Rodenticide Act.

 
13. Fungi. "Fungi" means all nonchlorophyll-bearing
thallophytes, that is, all nonchlorophyll-bearing plants of a
lower order than mosses and liverworts, as, for example,
including but not limited to rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, yeasts
and bacteria, except those on or in living man human beings or
other living animals, and except those in or on processed food,
beverages or pharmaceuticals.

 
14. Highly toxic pesticide. "Highly toxic pesticide" means
any pesticide determined to be a highly toxic pesticide under the
authority of FIFRA, Section 25(c)(2) of FIFRA or by the board
under section 610, subsection 1, paragraph B.

 
15. Imminent hazard. "Imminent hazard" means a situation
which that exists when the continued use of a pesticide during
the time required for cancellation proceedings pursuant to
section 609 would likely result in unreasonable adverse effects
on the environment or will involve unreasonable hazard to the
survival of a species declared endangered by the United States
Secretary of the Interior under United States Public Law 91-135.

 
16. Inert ingredient. "Inert ingredient" means an ingredient
which that is not an active ingredient.

 
17. Ingredient statement. "Ingredient statement" means a
statement of the name and percentage of each active ingredient
together with the total percentage of the inert ingredients in
the pesticide, and when the pesticide contains arsenic in any
form, the ingredient statement shall also include percentages of
total and water soluble arsenic, each calculated as elemental
arsenic. following:


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