NAC555.640. Private applicators: Categories.

The categories of private applicators are:

     1. Agricultural pest control:

     (a) Animal:

          (1) Dairy animal pest control: The control of any pest in, on or around dairy animals, including, but not limited to, goats and dairy cattle, and also including places on or in which dairy animals are confined, including, but not limited to, barns and corrals.

          (2) Meat animal pest control: The control of insects, including ectoparasites, in, on or around meat animals, including, but not limited to, horses, beef cattle, swine and sheep, and also including places on or in which meat animals are confined, including, but not limited to, barns and corrals.

          (3) Poultry pest control: The control of any pest in, on or around poultry, including, but not limited to, chickens, turkeys and ducks, and including places on or in which poultry is confined, including, but not limited to, coops and pens. This category excludes fumigation.

     (b) Plant:

          (1) Forage, grain, pasture and range pest control: The control of any pest in, on or around the production of forage, grain, pasture and range. This category excludes fumigation.

          (2) Row crop pest control: The control of any pest in, on or around row crops. This category excludes fumigation.

          (3) Seed crop pest control: The control of any pest in, on or around seed crops. This category excludes fumigation.

     (c) Speciality crops:

          (1) Aquatic pest control: The control of any pest, excluding predators, in standing or running water involved in aquaculture, including, but not limited to, catfish farms.

          (2) Greenhouse and nursery pest control: The control of any pest, excluding predators, in, on or around greenhouses and nurseries and the control of any pest, excluding predators, in, on or around greenhouse or nursery operational sites, including, but not limited to, equipment storage areas. This category excludes fumigation.

          (3) Industrial farm pest control: The control of any pest, excluding predators, in, on or around apiaries and industrial farmsteads, including, but not limited to, grain silos, equipment buildings, barns, warehouses and any other building associated with a farm operation. This category excludes fumigation.

          (4) Ornamental and turf pest control: The control of any pest, excluding predators, in the production of turf and the control of any pest, excluding predators, in, on or around turf production operational sites, including, but not limited to, equipment storage areas. This category excludes fumigation.

     2. Chemigation: The control of any pest through the application of pesticides by injection of the pesticides into irrigation water. This category excludes fumigation.

     3. Forest and rangeland pest control: The control of any pest, excluding predators, in or on forests and rangelands, and the control of any pest, excluding predators, in, on or around forest or rangeland operational sites, including, but not limited to, equipment storage areas.

     4. Fumigation: 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. Sites for commodity fumigations include, but are 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.

     (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 structural fumigation.

     (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.

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