Title 35 Public Health and Safety

35-7-354. Definitions.

(a) "Applicator" or "operator" means: (i) "Certified applicator" means any individual who is certified by the director as being competent with respect to the use and handling of pesticides, or of the use and handling of the pesticide or class of pesticides covered by the individual's certification; (ii) "Commercial applicator" means a certified applicator (whether or not he is a private applicator with respect to some uses) who uses or supervises the use of any pesticide which is classified for restricted use for any purpose or on any property other than as provided by paragraph (a)(iii) of this subsection; (iii) "Private applicator" means any certified applicator who uses or supervises the use of any restricted use pesticide which is restricted to use by certified applicators and only for purposes of producing any agricultural commodity on property owned by him or his employer or under his control or (is applied without compensation other than trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities) on the property of another person. (b) "Board of agriculture" means that body established by law under W.S. 11-2-102. (c) "Device" means any instrument or contrivance (other than a firearm) which is intended for trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest or any other form of plant or animal life (other than man, or bacteria, virus, or other microorganism on or in living man or other living animals) but does not include equipment used for the application of pesticides when sold separately therefrom. (d) "Pesticide" means: (i) Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pests; (ii) Any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant; (iii) Any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used as a spray adjuvant; and (iv) Any other pesticide product or substance whether general use, restricted use, registered, suspended or cancelled, which by the label or portions thereof clearly show it is used or has been used as a pesticide. (e) "Restricted use pesticide" means any pesticide product, the label of which states "restricted use" as required for registration by the environmental protection agency under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act of 1972, as amended. (f) "Dealer" or "distributor" means any person who imports, consigns, distributes, offers to sell or sells, barters or otherwise supplies pesticides in this state. A dealer or distributor may also be a registrant. (g) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture or his authorized agent. (h) "Label" means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon or affixed to the immediate container of any pesticide, or a reference within such display to other information. (j) "Official sample" means any sample of a pesticide, degradate or residue taken by and designated as official by the director.