Cite as: 27 CNCA § 803

For purposes of this chapter:

1. "Applicator" means any person engaging in the application of pesticides or employment of devices.

2. "Cherokee Nation" means the Cherokee Nation government and all of its entities, including businesses wholly-owned by Cherokee Nation.

3. "Device" means any instrument subject to the United States Environmental Protection Agency regulation intended for trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigating insects or rodents, or mitigation of fungi, bacteria, or weeds, or other pests designated by the board, but not including equipment used for the application of pesticides when sold separately.

4. "Pest" means any organism harmful to man including, but not limited to insects, mites, nematodes, weeds and pathogenic organisms. Pathogenic organisms include viruses, mycoplasma bacteria, rickettsia, and fungi.

5. "Pesticide" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest. A pesticide may be a chemical substance, biological agent (such as a virus or bacterium), antimicrobial, disinfectant or device used against any pest.

6. "Pesticide application" means the way in which pesticides are delivered to their target pests.

7. "Use" means transportation, storage, mixing, application, safe handling, waste and container disposal, and other specific instructions contained on the label and labeling.

Historical Data

LA 15–11, eff. August 11, 2011.