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NV Rev Stat § 555.248 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.248 - Infected or infested nursery stock: Shipment from State; destruction; treatment.

Any nursery stock brought into this State which the Director or inspecting officer finds or has reasonable cause to believe to be infested or infected with any pest must be destroyed immediately, at the expense of the owner or bailee, under the supervision of the Director or the inspecting officer, unless:  1. The nature of the pest is such that no detriment can be caused to the public, the nursery, agricultural, forestry or horticultural industry in this State or the general environmental quality of this State by shipping the nursery stock out of this State. In that case, the Director or inspecting officer:  (a) May affix a warning tag or notice to the nursery stock.  (b) Shall notify the owner or bailee to ship the nursery stock out of this State within 48 hours.  (c) Shall keep the nursery stock under the Director or inspecting officer’s control at the expense of the owner or bailee.  (d) Shall destroy the nursery stock at the expiration of 48 hours if the owner or bailee has not shipped the nursery stock out of this State.  2. The Director determines that the pest can be exterminated by a treatment prescribed by the Director with the result that no detriment will be caused to the public, the nursery, agricultural, forestry or horticultural industry in this State or the general environmental quality of this State. In that case, nursery stock will be released if the nursery stock is:  (a) Treated in the manner prescribed by the Director;  (b) Treated within the time specified by the Director or inspecting officer;  (c) Treated under the supervision of the inspecting officer; and  (d) Found to be free from pests.  (Added to NRS by 1959, 566; A 1961, 529; 1993, 1714; 1999, 712, 3644, 3742)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2485 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2485 - Enforcement by Director: Administrative fine; order to correct violation; request for action by district attorney; regulations.

  1. The Director shall adopt regulations specifying a schedule of administrative fines which may be imposed, upon notice and a hearing, for each violation of the provisions of NRS 555.235 to 555.249, inclusive, or the regulations adopted pursuant thereto. The maximum fine that the Director may impose for each violation may not exceed:  (a) For the first violation, $250;  (b) For the second violation, $500; and  (c) For each subsequent violation, $1,000.  All fines collected by the Director pursuant to this section must be deposited with the State Treasurer for credit to the State General Fund.  2. The Director may:  (a) In addition to imposing an administrative fine pursuant to this section, issue an order requiring a violator to take appropriate action to correct the violation. The violator shall pay the cost of any appropriate action so ordered.  (b) Request the district attorney of the appropriate county to investigate or file a criminal complaint against any person who the Director suspects may have committed flagrant or repeated violations of any provision of NRS 555.235 to 555.249, inclusive.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 82; A 1999, 3645; 2003, 538)
NV Rev Stat § 555.249 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.249 - Penalties.

Any person violating the provisions of NRS 555.235 to 555.249, inclusive, or the regulations adopted pursuant thereto is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 6 months, or by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by both fine and imprisonment. The prosecuting attorney and the Department may recover the costs of the proceeding, including investigative costs and attorney’s fees, against a person convicted of a misdemeanor pursuant to this section.  (Added to NRS by 1959, 567; A 1997, 83; 1999, 3645; 2003, 539)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2605 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2605 - Definitions.

As used in NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 555.261 to 555.2695, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252; A 1975, 595; 1997, 2092; 1999, 520, 542; 2003, 539; 2007, 984; 2013, 1325, 2738; 2017, 344; 2019, 2946)
NV Rev Stat § 555.261 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.261 - "Agent" defined.

Agent means any person who solicits business on behalf of the holder of a business license.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252; A 1975, 358; 2017, 344)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2615 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2615 - "Aircraft" defined.

Aircraft means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designed for navigation of, or flight in, the air.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252)
NV Rev Stat § 555.26155 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.26155 - "Applicator" defined.

Applicator means a natural person who engages in pest control. The term does not include a government applicator.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 342)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2616 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2616 - "Business license" defined.

Business license means a license to engage in pest control from a place of business identified on the license, issued by the Department to a natural person or business entity to operate as a pest control business.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 342)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2617 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2617 - "Certificate" defined.

Certificate means a certificate of competency issued by the Director to a commercial applicator or private applicator authorizing the applicator to make application of or to supervise the application of a restricted-use pesticide.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 593; A 1993, 1714; 1999, 3645; 2017, 344)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2618 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2618 - "Certified applicator" defined.

Certified applicator means any applicator who is certified by the Director as qualified to use or to supervise the use of any restricted-use pesticide.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 593; A 1977, 311; 1993, 1714; 1999, 3646; 2017, 344)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2619 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2619 - "Commercial applicator" defined.

Commercial applicator means a certified applicator who applies or supervises the application of any restricted-use pesticide and does not qualify as a private applicator under NRS 555.2681.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 593)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2625 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2625 - "Defoliant" defined.

Defoliant means any substance or mixture of substances intended to cause the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant with or without causing abscission.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252)
NV Rev Stat § 555.263 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.263 - "Desiccant" defined.

Desiccant means any substance or mixture of substances intended to accelerate the drying of plant tissues artificially.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2634 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2634 - "Environment" defined.

Environment includes the water, air, land and all plants and humans and other animals living therein and the interrelationships which exist among these.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 593)
NV Rev Stat § 555.264 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.264 - "Fungi" defined.

Fungi means all non-chlorophyll-bearing thallophytes (that is, all non-chlorophyll-bearing plants of a lower order than mosses and liverworts) as, for example, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, yeasts and bacteria, except those on or in living humans or other animals.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2641 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2641 - "General-use pesticide" defined.

General-use pesticide means a pesticide that has not been determined to be or classified as a restricted-use pesticide:  1. By the Director; or  2. In accordance with the Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1972, 7 U.S.C. §§ 136 et seq.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 342)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2642 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2642 - "Government applicator" defined.

Government applicator means a natural person who:  1. Is employed by a city, county, state or other governmental agency, including, without limitation, a conservation district or a weed control district; and  2. Engages in pest control in the course and scope of his or her employment and only within the jurisdiction of the governmental agency.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 342)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2643 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2643 - "Governmental agency certificate" defined.

Governmental agency certificate means a certificate to engage in pest control issued by the Director to a city, county, state or other governmental agency.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 343)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2645 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2645 - "Ground equipment" defined.

Ground equipment means any machine or device (other than aircraft) for use on land or water, designed for, or adaptable to, use in applying pesticides as sprays, dusts, aerosols or fogs, or in other forms.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252)
NV Rev Stat § 555.265 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.265 - "Insect" defined.

Insect means any of the numerous small invertebrate animals generally having the body more or less obviously segmented, for the most part belonging to the class insecta, comprising six-legged, usually winged forms, as for example beetles, bugs, wasps and flies, and to other allied classes of arthropods whose members are wingless and usually have more than six legs, as for example spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes and wood lice.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2654 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2654 - "Location principal" defined.

Location principal means the primary principal of a pest control business who has been designated by the business as the person responsible for the daily supervision of each category of pest control conducted from a location of the business.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 343)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2655 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2655 - "Nematode" defined.

Nematode means invertebrate animals of the phylum nemathelminthes and class nematoda, that is, unsegmented round worms with elongated, fusiform, or sac-like bodies covered with cuticle, and inhabiting soil, water, plants or plant parts, also called nemas or eelworms.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252)
NV Rev Stat § 555.266 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.266 - "Person" defined.

Person includes a government, a governmental agency and a political subdivision of a government.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253; A 1985, 526)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2667 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2667 - "Pest control" defined.

Pest control means conducting as a function of the agency, in the case of a city, county, state or other governmental agency, or publicly holding oneself out as being in the business of detecting, preventing, controlling or exterminating pests or otherwise engaging in, advertising or soliciting for:  1. The use of pesticides or mechanical devices for the extermination, control or prevention of infestations of pests.  2. The inspection of households or other structures and the submission of reports of inspection, estimates or bids, written or oral, for the inspection, extermination, control or prevention of wood-destroying pests.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1506; A 1981, 610; 2013, 1325; 2017, 344)
NV Rev Stat § 555.267 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.267 - "Pesticide" defined.

Pesticide includes, without limitation:  1. Any substance or mixture of substances, including any living organisms or any product derived therefrom or any fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, nematocide or rodenticide, intended to prevent, destroy, control, repel, attract or mitigate any insect, rodent, nematode, snail, slug, fungus and weed and any other form of plant or animal life or virus, except virus on or in a living human or other animal, which is normally considered to be a pest or which the Director declares to be a pest.  2. Any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant, and any other substances intended for that use as are named by the Director by regulation.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253; A 1981, 610; 1993, 1715; 1999, 3646; 2015, 3591)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2675 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2675 - "Plant regulator" defined.

Plant regulator means any substance or mixture of substances intended through physiological action to accelerate or retard the rate of growth or maturation, or otherwise to alter the behavior of plants, but does not include substances insofar as they are intended to be used as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculants or soil amendments.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2677 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2677 - "Primary principal" defined.

Primary principal means a principal who has been designated by a pest control business as the person responsible for the daily supervision of each category of pest control.  (Added to NRS by 2013, 1325)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2679 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2679 - "Principal" defined.

Principal means an owner, officer, partner, member or technician of a pest control business who has qualified by examination in one or more categories of pest control.  (Added to NRS by 2013, 1325)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2681 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2681 - "Private applicator" defined.

Private applicator means a certified applicator who uses or supervises the use of any restricted-use pesticide for purposes of producing any agricultural commodity on property owned or rented by the certified applicator or the certified applicator’s employer or on the property of the certified applicator’s neighbors if applied without compensation other than trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 593)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2683 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2683 - "Restricted-use pesticide" defined.

Restricted-use pesticide means any pesticide, including any highly toxic pesticide, which:  1. The Director has found and determined, after a hearing, to be:  (a) Injurious to persons, pollinating insects, bees, animals, crops or land, other than pests or vegetation it is intended to prevent, destroy, control or mitigate; or  (b) Detrimental to:  (1) Vegetation, except weeds;  (2) Wildlife; or  (3) Public health and safety; or  2. Has been classified for restricted use by or under the supervision of a certified applicator in accordance with the Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 136 et seq.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 593; A 1993, 1715; 1999, 3646)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2685 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2685 - "Snails or slugs" defined.

Snails or slugs include all harmful mollusks.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2687 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2687 - "Supervision" defined.

Supervision of the application of a restricted-use pesticide by a certified applicator must be defined by regulation of the Director.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 593; A 1993, 1715; 1999, 3646)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2688 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2688 - "Unlicensed employee" defined.

Unlicensed employee means an employee of a city, county, state or other governmental agency who:  1. Is not so employed for more than 1,039 hours in any 12-month period; and  2. Has complied with any requirements for training specified in regulations adopted by the Department.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 343)
NV Rev Stat § 555.269 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.269 - "Weed" defined.

Weed means any plant or part thereof which grows where not wanted.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2695 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2695 - "Wildlife" defined.

Wildlife means all living things that are neither human, domesticated nor pests, including but not limited to mammals, birds and aquatic life.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253; A 2015, 3591)
NV Rev Stat § 555.270 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.270 - Policy of this State; purpose of provisions.

It is the policy of this State and the purpose of NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, to regulate, in the public interest, the application of pesticides which, although valuable for the control of pests, may seriously injure humans, animals and crops over wide areas if not properly applied.  [1:215:1955] — (NRS A 1959, 243; 1967, 368; 1971, 1254; 1973, 285; 1975, 595; 2003, 539; 2017, 345)
NV Rev Stat § 555.273 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.273 - Applicability of provisions concerning restricted-use pesticides.

All state agencies, municipal corporations and public utilities or any other governmental agency and any government applicator is subject to the provisions of NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, and rules adopted thereunder concerning the application of restricted-use pesticides by any person.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253; A 1975, 595; 2017, 345; 2019, 2946)
NV Rev Stat § 555.277 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.277 - Exemption from certain provisions for farmer-owners and gardeners.

  1. The provisions of NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, relating to licenses and requirements for their issuance, except those provisions relating to a certificate or permit to use a restricted-use pesticide, do not apply to any farmer-owner of ground equipment applying pesticides for himself, herself or his or her neighbors, if:  (a) The farmer-owner operates farm property and operates and maintains equipment for applying pesticides primarily for his or her own use;  (b) The farmer-owner is not regularly engaged in the business of applying pesticides or performing pest control as an operator, primary principal or principal or as a regular occupation, and the farmer-owner does not advertise or solicit pest control or publicly hold himself or herself out as being in the business of pest control or as an applicator; and  (c) The farmer-owner operates his or her equipment for applying pesticides only in the vicinity of the farmer-owner’s own property and for the accommodation of the farmer-owner’s neighbors for agricultural purposes only.  2. The provisions of NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, except those provisions relating to a certificate or permit to use a restricted-use pesticide, do not apply to a gardener using hand-powered equipment, devices or contrivances to apply any pesticides of toxicity class III or IV, as classified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, to any lawn or garden as an incidental part of his or her business of taking care of a lawn or garden for remuneration, if he or she does not advertise or solicit pest control or publicly hold himself or herself out as being in the business of pest control or applying pesticides. As used in this subsection, "gardener" means a person who owns, operates or is employed by a business that provides routine care of a lawn or garden for a homeowner.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253; A 1981, 611; 1983, 230; 2003, 539; 2013, 1326; 2017, 345)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2771 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2771 - Governmental agency certificate.

A city, county, state or other governmental agency shall not engage in pest control without a governmental agency certificate issued by the Director.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 343)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2772 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2772 - License as government applicator.

  1. A government applicator shall not engage in pest control within the course and scope of his or her employment without a license issued by the Director. The provisions of this subsection do not prohibit the use of a general-use pesticide by an unlicensed employee under the supervision of a government applicator.  2. As used in this section, "supervision" means:  (a) The exercise of responsibility and provision of guidance for an unlicensed employee by a government applicator; and  (b) The physical presence of the government applicator at the location where the unlicensed employee applies the general-use pesticide, if required by the label placed on the container for the general-use pesticide.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 343)
NV Rev Stat § 555.2773 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds|NRS 555.2773 - Application for governmental agency certificate or license as government applicator. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional, occupational and recreational licenses for child support arrearages and for noncompliance with certain processes relating to paternity or child support proceedings.]

  1. An application for a governmental agency certificate or license as a government applicator must be made to the Director and contain such information regarding the applicant’s qualifications and proposed operations and other relevant matters as required by regulation of the Director.  2. An application for a license as a government applicator must include the social security number of the applicant.  3. A city, county, state or other governmental agency is not required to obtain more than one governmental agency certificate to engage in pest control within its jurisdiction.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 343)