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§ 1452 -   Definitions

[Section 1452 effective July 1, 2010.]

§ 1452. Definitions

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Agency" means the agency of natural resources.

(2) "Aquatic nuisance" means undesirable or excessive substances or populations that interfere with the recreational potential or aquatic habitat of a body of water. Aquatic nuisances include rooted aquatic plants and animal and algal populations.

(3) "Aquatic plant" means a plant that naturally grows in water, saturated soils, or seasonally saturated soils, including algae and submerged, floating-leafed, floating, or emergent plants.

(4) "Biological controls" mean multi-cellular organisms.

(5) "Board" means the water resources panel of the natural resources board.

(6) "Lessee" means a person who acquires the right to occupancy or use of property under a lease or rental agreement.

(7) "New aquatic species" means an aquatic species that was not known to occur in a surface water of Vermont or in a segment of Lake Champlain as of January 1, 2007.

(8) "Pesticide" means any substance produced, distributed, or used for preventing, destroying, or repelling nuisance aquatic plants, insects, or other aquatic life, including lamprey. Pesticide includes unicellular organisms or extracts from unicellular organisms and does not include biological controls.

(9) "Secretary" means the secretary of natural resources.

(10) "Water resources" means the waters and the values inherent or potential in waters and their uses.

(11) "Waters" means all rivers, streams, creeks, brooks, reservoirs, ponds, lakes, and springs and all bodies of surface waters, artificial or natural, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion of it. (Added 2009, No. 46, § 1, eff. July 1, 2010.)

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