Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 149A > Part I - General Provisions

• Active ingredient: means :

  (1) In the case of a pesticide other than a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, an ingredient which will prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any pest;

  (2) In the case of a plant regulator, an ingredient which, through physiological action, will accelerate or retard the rate of growth or maturation or otherwise alter the behavior of ornamental or crop plants or the produce thereof;

  (3) In the case of a defoliant, an ingredient which will cause the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant; and

  (4) In the case of a desiccant, an ingredient which will artificially accelerate the drying of plant tissues. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2

• Animal: means all vertebrate and invertebrate species, including but not limited to humans and other mammals, birds, fish, and shellfish. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Board: means board of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Certified pesticide applicator: means any individual who is certified under section 149A-33(1) as authorized to use or supervise the use of any pesticide which is classified for restricted use. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Chairperson: means chairperson of the board of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Commercial pesticide applicator: means any certified pesticide applicator, whether or not the applicator is a private pesticide applicator with respect to some uses, who uses or supervises the use of any pesticide which is classified for restricted use for any purpose or on any property other than as provided by section 149A-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Company: means any corporation, partnership, trust (business or otherwise), association, joint venture, pool syndicate, unincorporated organization, or any form of business entity not specifically listed herein and, unless specifically excluded, a financial institution; provided that "company" does not mean any trust existing on July 1, 1993, which under its terms must terminate within twenty-five years, or not later than twenty-one years and ten months after the death of individuals living on the effective date of the trust. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Defoliant: means any substance or mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, causing or without causing abscission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Department: means department of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Desiccant: means any substance or mixture of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissues. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Device: means any instrument or contrivance, other than a firearm, which is intended for trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest or any form of plant or animal life (other than humans and other than bacteria, viruses, or other microorganisms on or living in humans or other animals); but not including equipment used for application of pesticides when sold separately therefrom. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Director: means any member of the board of directors of a financial institution, whether or not receiving compensation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Environment: includes water, air, land, and all plants and humans and other animals living therein, and the interrelationships which exist among these. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• EPA: means the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• FIFRA: means the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Financial institution: means a Hawaii financial institution, and unless the context indicates otherwise, a federal financial institution or foreign financial institution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Ingredient statement: means :

  (1) A statement of the name and percentage of each active ingredient, together with the total percentage of the inert ingredients, in the pesticide; and

  (2) In case the pesticide contains arsenic in any form, a statement of the percentages of total and water soluble arsenic, each calculated as elemental arsenic. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2

• Insect: means invertebrate animals belonging to the class insecta, including beetles, bugs, bees, flies, and other allied classes of arthropods, including spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, and wood lice. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Label: means the written, printed, or graphic matter on or attached to the pesticide or device or any of its containers or wrappers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter accompanying the pesticide or device at any time or to which reference is made on the label or in literature accompanying the pesticide or device, except to current official publications of the EPA, the United States Departments of Agriculture and the Interior, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, state experiment stations, state agriculture colleges, or other similar federal or state institutions or agencies authorized by law to conduct research in the field of pesticides. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• License: means the process of being allowed to register a pesticide product pursuant to provisions of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Misbranded: includes any of the following:

  (1) The labeling of the pesticide or device bears any statement, design, or graphic representation relative thereto or to its ingredients or functions which is false or misleading in any particular;

  (2) The pesticide is contained in a package or other container or wrapping which does not conform to the standards established by federal law;

  (3) The pesticide is an imitation or is offered for sale under the name of another pesticide;

  (4) The label does not bear the federal registration number assigned to each establishment in which it was produced;

  (5) Any word, statement, or other information required by or under authority of the federal law to appear on the label or labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness (as compared with other words, statements, designs, or graphic matter in the labeling) and in terms to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use;

  (6) The labeling accompanying the pesticide does not contain directions for use which are necessary for effecting the purpose for which the product is intended and if complied with, together with any requirements imposed under FIFRA are adequate to protect health and the environment;

  (7) The label does not contain a warning or caution statement which may be necessary and if complied with, together with any requirements imposed under federal law, is adequate to protect health and the environment;

  (8) The label does not bear an ingredient statement on that part of the immediate container (and on the outside container or wrapper of the retail package, if there be one, through which the ingredient statement on the immediate container cannot be clearly read) which is presented or displayed under customary conditions of purchase, except that a pesticide is not misbranded under this section if:

  (A) The size or form of the immediate container, or the outside container or wrapper of the retail package, makes it impracticable to place the ingredient statement on the part which is presented or displayed under customary conditions of purchase; and

  (B) The ingredient statement appears prominently on another part of the immediate container, or outside container or wrapper, permitted by the department;

  (9) The labeling does not contain a statement of the use classification under which the product is registered;

  (10) There is not affixed to its container, and to the outside container or wrapper of the retail package, if there be one, through which the required information on the immediate container cannot be clearly read, a label bearing:

  (A) The name and address of the producer, registrant, or person for whom produced;

  (B) The name, brand, or trademark under which the pesticide is sold;

  (C) The net weight or measure of the content; provided that the EPA Administrator may permit reasonable variations; and

  (D) When required by federal regulations to effectuate the purposes of this law, the registration number assigned to the pesticide under federal law and the use classification; and

  (11) The pesticide contains any substance or substances in quantities highly toxic to humans, unless the label shall bear, in addition to any other matter required by this law:

  (A) The skull and crossbones;

  (B) The word "poison" prominently in red on a background of distinctly contrasting color; and

  (C) A statement of a practical treatment (first aid or otherwise) in case of poisoning by the pesticide. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2

• Nematode: means invertebrate animals of the phylum nemathelminthes and the class nematoda, including unsegmented round worms with elongated fusiform or sac-like bodies covered with cuticle, and inhabiting soil, water, plants, or plant parts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, or partnership or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Pest: means any insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed, or any other form of terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life or virus, bacterium, or any other microorganism, except viruses, bacterium, or any other microorganisms on or in living humans or other living animals, which the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency determines to be a pest pursuant to the [Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act]. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Pesticide: means :

  (1) Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest; and

  (2) Any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2

• Plant regulator: means any substance or mixture of substances intended, through physiological action, for accelerating or retarding the rate of growth or maturation or for otherwise altering the behavior of plants or the produce thereof, but does not include substances to the extent that they are intended as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculants, and soil amendments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Principal shareholder: means a person other than a financial institution, that, directly or indirectly, or acting through or in concert with another, owns, controls, or has the power to vote more than ten per cent of any class of voting securities of a financial institution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Private pesticide applicator: means a certified pesticide applicator who uses or supervises the use of any pesticide which is classified for restricted use for purposes of producing any agricultural commodity on property owned or rented by the applicator or the applicator's employer if applied without compensation other than trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities on the property of another person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Produce: means to manufacture, prepare, compound, propagate, or process any pesticide or device. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Producer: means any person who manufactures, prepares, compounds, propagates, or processes any pesticide or device. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Registrant: means the person registering or licensing any pesticide pursuant to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Related interest: means

  (1) a company that is controlled by a person or

  (2) a political or campaign committee that is controlled by a person or the funds or services of which will benefit a person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109

• Restricted use pesticide: means :

  (1) A pesticide or pesticide use classified by the Administrator, EPA, for use by certified applicators or competent persons under their direct supervision and so designated on its label; or

  (2) A pesticide or pesticide use classified by the board for use by certified applicators or competent persons under their direct supervision. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2

• this State: means the State of Hawaii, its political subdivisions, agencies, and departments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Under the direct supervision of a certified applicator: means , unless otherwise prescribed by its labeling, a pesticide shall be considered to be applied under the direct supervision of a certified applicator if it is applied by a competent person acting under the instructions and control of a certified applicator who is available if and when needed, even though the certified applicator is not physically present at the time and place the pesticide is applied. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Unreasonable adverse effects on the environment: means any unreasonable risk to humans or the environment, taking into account the economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits of the use of the pesticide. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2
• Weed: means any plant which grows where not wanted. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 149A-2