NAC555.620. Nonprimary principal commercial applicators: Categories.

The categories of nonprimary principal commercial applicators are:

     1. Agricultural pest control, which includes:

     (a) Animal: The control of insects, including ectoparasites, on or around animals, including, but not limited to, beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine, sheep, horses, goats and poultry, and to places on or in which animals are confined.

     (b) Plant: The control of any pest on or around any agricultural crop, including, but not limited to, the production of forage, grain, pasture, seed, row crops and fruit crops, as well as rangeland, idle cropland and noncropland associated with the production of agricultural crops, or on any other agricultural crop consumed or used by humans or animals, and excluding fumigation pest control.

     2. Aquatic pest control: The control of any pest in standing or running water, excluding mosquito control and public health pest control.

     3. Chemigation: The control of any pest through the application of pesticides by injection of the pesticides into irrigation water, excluding fumigation pest control.

     4. Forest pest control: The control of any pest in rangeland, forests, forest nurseries and forest seed-producing areas.

     5. Fumigation pest control: The control of any pest by fumigation with poisonous and lethal gases which includes:

     (a) Commodity fumigation: The control of any pest which infests raw agricultural and processed commodities, animal feeds and commodity storage facilities where they are held or stored and are subject to infestations of insects, rats, mice, fungi and bacteria, including, but not limited to, grain elevators, rail cars, truck trailers, vans, shipholds, air and sea containers, other static sealable enclosures, food processing plants with raw or processed commodities, tarpaulin fumigations with raw or processed commodities, prepared bins with raw or processed commodities, warehouses or other areas where raw or processed commodities are stored, beehives and other beekeeping equipment, and excluding fumigation pest control.

     (b) Rodent burrow fumigation: Outdoor applications for the control of nonprotected or endangered burrowing rodents and moles, including, but not limited to, fumigants applied to underground burrow systems for the control of marmots, woodchucks, Norway rats, roof rats, house mice, ground squirrels, moles, voles, pocket gophers and chipmunks, and excluding fumigation pest control.

     (c) Soil fumigation: The control of any soil pest when present in the soil at the time of treatment, including, but not limited to, plant-parasitic nematodes, soil-borne disease causing organisms, weeds and insects.

     (d) Structural fumigation: The control of any industrial or institutional pest, wood-destroying fungi or wood-destroying pest, as defined in NAC 555.2535, 555.2577 and 555.258, which is in, on or around any structure, including, but not limited to, homes, apartments, dwelling units, storage sheds, warehouses, offices, casinos, motels, stores, hospitals, schools and similar institutions, and excluding commodity fumigation, rodent burrow fumigation and soil fumigation.

     6. Greenhouse and nursery pest control: The control of any pest in the maintenance or production of greenhouse or nursery stock, excluding fumigation pest control.

     7. Industrial, institutional, structural and health-related pest control, which includes:

     (a) Industrial pest control: The control of any pest, including those that are health-related but excluding wood-destroying pests, in, on or around an industrial complex, including, but not limited to, grain elevators, offices, casinos, motels, stores, operational sites of food handling establishments, warehouses or stored products, and excluding ornamental and turf pest control, fumigation pest control and aquatic pest control.

     (b) Institutional pest control: The control of any pest, including those that are health-related but excluding wood-destroying pests, in, on or around an institutional complex, including, but not limited to, homes, hospitals, schools and similar institutes, especially where children, the physically unfit and germicidal work would be involved, and also including any inanimate objects used in the maintenance of institutional operations, including, but not limited to, garbage cans, wood piles and sidewalks, and excluding ornamental and turf pest control, fumigation pest control and aquatic pest control.

     (c) Structural pest control: The control of any wood-destroying pest in, on or around any structure, including, but not limited to, homes, storage sheds and warehouses, and excluding fumigation pest control.

     8. Mosquito control: The control of mosquitoes in any habitat, including, but not limited to, reservoirs, lakes, rivers and cropland.

     9. Ornamental and turf pest control: The control of any pest in the maintenance and production of ornamentals and turf, including, but not limited to, ornamental trees, shrubs, flowers, home fruit trees and home vegetable gardens, and excluding fumigation pest control.

     10. Predatory pest control/M-44: The control of any predator in any habitat, including, but not limited to, rangeland, forests and cropland.

     11. Public health pest control: The control of any pest having medical and public health importance by state, federal or other governmental employees.

     12. Right-of-way pest control: The control of any pest in the maintenance of rights-of-way, including, but not limited to, public roads, electric power lines, pipelines and railway rights-of-way.

     13. Seed treatment: The treating of seeds to control insects, fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms, and excluding fumigation pest control.

     14. Sewer line root control: The control of plant roots in the maintenance of sewers.

     15. Wood preservative: The control of wood-destroying pests through the use of chemicals that preserve wood.

     [Dep’t of Agriculture Reg., 55.52, eff. 1-17-77]—(NAC A by R147-03, 1-22-2004; R062-10, 1-13-2011)