Arizona Arizona Revised Statutes

§ 3-362 — Powers and duties

ARS § 3-362Title 3. Agriculture · Ch. 2. REGULATORY PROVISIONS · Art. 6. Pesticide Control

Statute text

3-362. Powers and duties A. The director is responsible for administering this article and shall: 1. Conduct investigations, on complaint and on his own initiative, regarding violations of this article and compile information necessary to administer this article. 2. Take timely action necessary to enforce this article against violators including seeking injunctive relief and other penalties and sanctions authorized by this article. 3. Publish a list of pesticides, by common and proprietary names, which the director determines to be highly toxic, odoriferous, such as profenofos, sulprofos, def and merphos and other pesticides with similar odoriferous characteristics, or otherwise appropriate for inclusion and shall include in that list paraquat and gramoxone. 4. Submit to the United States environmental protection agency a state plan for issuing, monitoring, and controlling experimental use permits pursuant to section 5 of the federal insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide act (7 United States Code section 136c(f)). 5. Develop systems and procedures to encourage and ensure public contact with the department, which may include:

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