Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 49 > Chapter 2 > Article 6 - Pesticide Contamination Prevention

• Active ingredient: has the meaning assigned to the term by title 7 United States Code § 136. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Applicant: means any person who applies for a registration or amended registration pursuant to Title 3, Chapter 2, Article 5 or a conditional registration pursuant to section 49-310. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Chemigation: means a method of irrigation by which a pesticide is mixed with irrigation water before the water is applied to the crop or the soil. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Degradation product: means a substance resulting from the transformation of a pesticide by physicochemical or biochemical means. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Director: means the director of environmental quality or the director's designee. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Groundwater protection data gap: means that a pesticide for agricultural use has been registered with the Arizona department of agriculture without the director of environmental quality finding that the information submitted pursuant to section 49-302 meets the requirements of this article. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• New pesticide: means a pesticide that contains an active ingredient for which the information required under section 49-302, subsection A has not been submitted by the applicant for registration and that has not been approved by the director of environmental quality. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Person: means an individual, employee, officer, managing body, trust, firm, joint stock company, consortium, public or private corporation, including a government corporation, partnership, association or state, a political subdivision of this state, a commission, the United States government or any federal facility, interstate body or other entity. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Pesticide: means any substance or mixture of substances intended for either:

  (a) Preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest. See Arizona Laws 49-301

• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Registrant: means a person that has registered a pesticide pursuant to Title 3, Chapter 2, Article 5. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Soil adsorption coefficient: means a measure of the tendency of a pesticide, or its biologically active transformation products, to bond to the surfaces of soil particles. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Standards: means water quality standards, pretreatment standards and toxicity standards established pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215