§ 12-161.02. Definitions.

(a)

The following definitions shall apply in this Subdivision:

(1)

Custom applicator means any person, and his employees, who is engaged in the business of applying, by air, ground, hand, or mechanical equipment, pesticides to property;

(2)

Customer means any person who has entered into an agreement for a custom applicator to apply pesticides for the care of property;

(3)

Pest means any insect, snail, slug, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed, or any other form of terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life or virus, bacteria, or other microorganism (except viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms, on or in living man or any other living animal), which normally is considered to be a pest or which the Secretary of the Maryland Department of Agriculture declares to be a pest.

(4)

Pesticide means any substance or mixture of substances intended:

(A)

For preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest;

(B)

For use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant; and

(C)

To be used as a spray adjuvant such as a wetting agent or adhesive.

(5)

Private Applicator means any person who applies pesticides by air, ground, hand, or mechanical equipment to his privately owned or leased property, or property which he otherwise occupies or uses by consent of the owner, and further includes any corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, other business association, condominium association, agency of Prince George's County, Maryland, or any of the municipalities within Prince George's County, Maryland, and similar entities which utilizes its own employees to apply by air, ground, hand, or mechanical equipment, pesticides to property owned or managed by said entity.

(6)

Property means land located in Prince George's County, Maryland, and the water, vegetation, and airspace upon and above said land, but does not include structures or other improvements or areas of land used exclusively for agriculture or commercial forest production.

(7)

Residential Applicator means a private applicator who applies a pesticide for any purpose on any property where he/she resides, excluding such property as may comprise the common area of a multifamily dwelling or associated group of dwellings.

(CB-91-1985)