Arizona Arizona Revised Statutes

§ 3-341 — Definitions

ARS § 3-341Title 3. Agriculture · Ch. 2. REGULATORY PROVISIONS · Art. 5. Pesticides

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3-341. Definitions For the purposes of this article: 1. "Active ingredient" means an ingredient that will prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate pests or that will act as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant. 2. "Adulterated" means any pesticide the strength or purity of which falls below the professed standard or quality as expressed on labeling or under which it is sold, or if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article, or if any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted. 3. "Animal" means all vertebrate and invertebrate species, including, but not limited to, humans and other mammals, birds, fish and shellfish. 4. "Antidote" means the most practical immediate treatment in case of poisoning and includes first aid treatment. 5. "Associate director" means the associate director of the environmental services division. 6. "Beneficial insects" means those insects that, during their life cycle, are effective pollinators of plants, are parasites or predators of pests or are otherwise beneficial. 7. "Defoliant" and "desiccant" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for killing or artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissues, with or without causing abscission. 8. "Device" means any instrument or contrivance intended for trapping insects, and includes any instrument or contrivance intended for destroying, repelling or mitigating insects or rodents or destroying, repelling or mitigating fungi or weeds, or such other pests as may be designated by the director, but not including equipment used for the application of pesticides when sold separately therefrom. 9. "Distribute" means to offer for sale, hold for sale, sell or barter pesticides for use in this state. 10. "Division" means the environmental services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. 11. "Fungi" means all non-chlorophyll-bearing thallophytes, that is, all non-chlorophyll-bearing plants of a lower order than mosses and liverworts, as, for example, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds and yeasts, except those on or in living humans or other animals. 12. "Inert ingredient" means an ingredient that is not an active ingredient. 13. "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. 14. "Insect" means any of the numerous small invertebrate animals generally having the body more or less obviously segmented, for the most part belonging to the class insecta, comprising six-legged, usually winged forms, as, for example, beetles, bugs, bees and flies, and to other allied classes of arthropods whose members are wingless and usually have more than six legs, as, for example, spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes and wood lice. 15. "Label" means the written, printed or graphic matter on, or attached to, the pesticide or device, or the immediate container thereof, and the outside container or wrapper of the retail package, if there is any, of the pesticide or device. 16. "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter:

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