217B.500 Definitions for KRS 217B.505 to 217B.585.
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As used in KRS 217B.500 to 217B.585 unless the context requires otherwise:
(1)"Applicant" means any person applying for a license;
(2)"Applicator" means a licensed person who makes pesticide applications;
(3)"Board" means the Structural Pest Management Advisory Board;
(4)"Carpenter ants" means those ants that damage wooden structures and are classified
within the genus Camponotus;
(5)"Carpenter bees" means those bees that damage wooden structures and are
classified in the genus Xylocopa;
(6)"Commercial pesticide application" means a pesticide application made by a
licensed person or trainee employed by a structural pest management company on
the property of another for a fee;
(7)"Department" means the Kentucky Department of Agriculture;
(8)"Direct supervision" means the act or process whereby the application of a pesticide
is made by a competent person acting under the instructions and control of a
certified operator or certified applicator who is responsible for the actions of that
person and who is available if and when needed, even though such certified
operator or certified applicator is not physically present at the time and place the
pesticide is applied;
(9)"General pests" means any arthropods, mollusks, annelid worms, rodents, or other
pestiferous vertebrate animals, vermin, or fungi, excluding those defined in
subsections (4), (5), (13), (16), and
(20)of this section;
(10)"KPMA" means the Kentucky Pest Management Association, Inc;
(11)"License" means an instrument issued by the department that certifies a person is
competent to make pesticide applications in a structural pest management category;
(12)"Noncommercial pesticide application" means pesticide applications made by an
applicator, in the course of employment, on property owned, occupied, or managed
by the applicator or his or her employer;
(13)"Office" means any location where the application records or pesticide inventory of
a structural pest management company are stored;
(14)"Old house borer" means the cerambycid beetle Hylotrupes bajalus (L.);
(15)"Operator" means a licensed person who manages a structural pest management
company and makes pesticide applications or supervises applicators or trainees
making pesticide applications;
(16)"Powder post beetle" means the beetles that damage wooden structures and are
classified within the families Lyctidae, Bostrichidae, or Anobiidae;
(17)"Structural fumigation" means the use of poisonous gases for the control of general
pests and wood destroying organisms in enclosed structures;
(18)"Structural pest management" means the use of pesticides to prevent, control, repel,
or eliminate wood destroying organisms or general pests in, around, or outside
structures for the purpose of mitigating threats to structural integrity, the human
occupancy, or the contents of such structures;
(19)"Structural pest management company" means any company that provides
commercial structural pest management or commercial structural fumigation
services for a fee;
(20)"Termite" means the eastern subterranean termite, Reticulotermes flavipes (Kollar),
the southeastern subterranean termite, R. virginicus Banks, or the light southeastern
subterranean termite, R. hageni Banks;
(21)"Trainee" means an unlicensed person employed by a structural pest management
company to make pesticide applications; and
(22)"Wood destroying organisms" means those organisms that cause damage to the
wood used in the construction of structures including the insects defined under
subsections (4), (5), (13), (16), and
(20)of this section.