Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 2 - Agriculture and Commerce › Part 1 - Rules of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce › Subpart 3 - Bureau of Plant Industry › Chapter 10 - Crop Spraying and Licensing of Aerial Applicators › Subchapter 01 - Regulation of Application by Aircraft of Agricultural Substances › Definitions › Section 2-1-3-10-01-101.01

Current through June 25, 2024
As used in these regulations, the following terms
						  shall have the meanings hereinafter ascribed to them.
1. "Aerial application" means the practice of
						engaging in agricultural aircraft operations.
2. "Agricultural aircraft operation" means:
						Dispensing any pesticide, fertilizer or seed by aircraft;
3. "Aircraft" means any contrivance now known
						or hereafter invented that is used or designed for navigation of or flight in
						the air over land and water, and that is designed for or adaptable for use in
						agricultural aircraft operations.
4. "Applicator" means any person, as herein
						defined, who is licensed under this article to engage in agricultural aircraft
						operations, who may or may not be a pilot.
5. "Agricultural substance" means any seed,
						fertilizer or pesticide that is used, applied, sprayed or administered by
						aircraft
6. "Board" shall mean the
						advisory board of the Bureau of Plant Industry, a division of the Mississippi
						Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
7. "Bureau" means the Bureau of Plant
						Industry, a division of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and
						Commerce
8. "Chief Pilot" means the
						person designated by an applicator to serve as chief pilot and the supervisor
						of agricultural aircraft operations for an applicator.
9. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
						the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
10. "Defoliant" means any substance or
						mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves of foliage to drop from a
						plant, with or without causing abscission.
11. "Department" means the Mississippi
						Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
12. "Desiccant" means any substance or
						mixtures of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of
						plant tissues
13. "Herbicide" means
						a chemical used for killing plants or severely interrupting their normal growth
						processes.
14. "Hormone-Type
						Herbicide" - shall mean all phenoxy type herbicides and other chemicals or
						substances which produce physiological changes in plant tissue without
						producing a burning effect, such as caused by many oils, which the Department
						may declare to be extremely hazardous to crops or plants other than those for
						which the particular herbicide is intended to control, and shall include, but
						not be limited to the following materials: 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic
						acid) 2,4-DP 2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxypropionic acid in all forms; 2,4-DB
						4-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy) butyric acid in all forms; MCPA 4-chloro-2-methyl
						phenoxyacetic acid in all forms; Dicamba 2-Methoxy-3, 6-dichlorobenzoic acid in
						all forms, and picloram (4-amino-3,5,6-trichloropicolinic acid) in all
						forms.
15. "Person" shall mean any
						individual, corporation, firm, partnership, company, trust, association or
						other legal entity.
16.
"
Pesticide" means any substance or mixture of substances
						intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, mitigating or attracting any
						pests; and shall also include adjuvants intended to enhance the effectiveness
						of pesticides; and any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a
						plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant.
17. "Pilot" means the operator of an aircraft
						used in agricultural aircraft operation; provided, however, a pilot may also be
						a person who is licensed as an applicator under the provisions of these
						regulations.
18. "Volume Median
						Diameter (VMD)" means the diameter of a single droplet, whose volume, when
						multiplied by the total number of droplets in spray, is found to equal the
						total spray volume. The volume median diameter is calculated by dividing the
						total spray volume in half.
Miss. Code Ann.
						  §
													69-21-109
						  (Rev. 2009).