Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.010
Short title
This chapter may be cited as the Nevada Pesticides Act.
Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 586 — Nevada Pesticides Act
Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 586 · 61 active provisions
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.020
Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 586.030 to 586.220, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.030
“Active ingredient” defined
“Active ingredient” means in the case of: 1. A pesticide, other than a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant, an ingredient which will prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate insects, nematodes, fungi, rodents, weeds or other pests. 2. A plant regulator, an ingredient which, through physiological action, will accelerate…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.040
“Adulterated” defined
“Adulterated” shall apply to any pesticide if its strength or purity 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 abst…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.050
“Antidote” defined
“Antidote” means the most practical immediate treatment in case of poisoning and includes first aid treatment.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.052
“Brand” defined
“Brand” means any and all words, terms, designs or trademarks used in connection with a pesticide.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.053
“Certified applicator” defined
“Certified applicator” means any person who is certified by the Director as qualified to use or supervise the use of any restricted-use pesticide.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.055
“Defoliant” defined
“Defoliant” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without causing abscission.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.057
“Desiccant” defined
“Desiccant” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissues.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.060
“Device” defined
“Device” means any instrument or contrivance intended for trapping, destroying, repelling or mitigating insects or rodents, or destroying, repelling or mitigating fungi or weeds, or such other pests as designated by the Director. The term does not include equipment used for the application of pesticides when sold separ…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.071
“Director” defined
“Director” means the Director of the State Department of Agriculture.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.090
“Fungi” defined
“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, yeasts and bacteria, except those on or in living humans or other animals.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.100
“Fungicide” defined
“Fungicide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any fungi.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.110
“Herbicide” defined
“Herbicide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any weed.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.130
“Inert ingredient” defined
“Inert ingredient” means an ingredient which is not an active ingredient.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.135
“Ingredient statement” defined
“Ingredient statement” means either: 1. A statement of the name and amount by percentage of weight of each active ingredient, together with the total amount by percentage of weight of the inert ingredients, in the pesticide; or 2. A statement of the name of each active ingredient, together with the name of each and tot…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.140
“Insect” defined
“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, flies, and to other allied classes of arthropods whose members ar…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.150
“Insecticide” defined
“Insecticide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any insects which may be present in any environment whatever.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.160
“Label” defined
“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 any there be, of the pesticide or device.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.170
“Labeling” defined
“Labeling” means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter: 1. Upon the pesticide or device or any of its containers or wrappers; 2. Accompanying the pesticide or device at any time; or 3. To which reference is made on the label or in literature accompanying the pesticide or device, except when accurate,…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.180
“Misbranded” defined
“Misbranded” shall apply: 1. To any pesticide or device if its labeling bears any statement, design or graphic representation relative thereto or to its ingredients which is false or misleading in any particular. 2. To any pesticide: (a) If it is an imitation of, or is offered for sale under the name of, another pestic…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.185
“Nematocide” defined
“Nematocide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating nematodes.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.186
“Nematode” defined
“Nematode” means invertebrate animals of the phylum nemathelminthes and class Nematoda, that is, unsegmented round worms with elongated, fusiform or sac-like bodies covered with cuticle, and inhabiting soil, water, plants or plant parts, also called nemas or eelworms.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.188
“Neonicotinoid pesticide” defined
“Neonicotinoid pesticide” means any pesticide containing a chemical belonging to the neonicotinoid class of chemicals, including, without limitation: 1. Acetamiprid; 2. Clothianidin; 3. Dinotefuran; 4. Imidacloprid; 5. Nithiazine; 6. Thiacloprid; and 7. Thiamethoxam.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 586.195
“Pesticide” defined
“Pesticide” includes, but is not limited to: 1. Any substance or mixture of substances, including any living organisms, any product derived therefrom and any fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, nematocide and rodenticide, intended to prevent, destroy, control, repel, attract or mitigate any insect, rodent, nematode, sna…
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