§ 8-7-1203 - Definitions. - Arkansas Statutes

8-7-1203. Definitions.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Abandoned" means chemicals which are no longer used and for which there is no planned use;

(2) "Advisory board" means the Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board;

(3) "Contractor" means a person who provides services for a fee involving the disposal of abandoned pesticides;

(4) "Fund" means the Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide and Plant Regulator Disposal Trust Fund;

(5) "Pesticide" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for prevention, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pests, or any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used as a spray adjuvant and for other uses; and

(6) (A) "Plant regulator" means any substance or mixture of substances intended through physiological action to accelerate or retard the rate of growth of maturation or to otherwise alter the behavior of plants or the produce thereof.

(B) The term shall not include substances to the extent that they are intended as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculates, or soil amendments.