Sec. 57. Except as provided in section 58 of this chapter, a person may not produce, distribute, display, sell, or offer for sale within Indiana or deliver for transportation or transport in intrastate commerce or between points within Indiana through any point outside Indiana any of the following:

(1) Any pesticide product that has not been registered under section 61 of this chapter.

Terms Used In Indiana Code 15-16-4-57

  • adulterated: refers to a pesticide or pesticide product if:

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-3

  • bulk pesticide: means any pesticide or mixture of pesticides that is transported or held in a reusable immediate container in undivided quantities greater than:

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-7

  • distribute: means to:

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-11

  • fungicide: means any substance or mixture of substances intended for:

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-15

  • herbicide: means any substance or mixture of substances intended for:

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-16

  • immediate container: means the part of a container that is in direct contact with a pesticide. See Indiana Code 15-16-4-18
  • insecticide: means any substance or mixture of substances intended for:

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-22

  • label: means :

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-23

  • labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter:

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-24

  • misbranded: refers to any of the following:

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-25

  • person: means :

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-28

  • pesticide: means :

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-30

  • pesticide product: means a pesticide or device offered for distribution or use, including any labeling. See Indiana Code 15-16-4-33
  • produce: means :

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-35

  • registrant: means a person who registers a pesticide product under this chapter. See Indiana Code 15-16-4-36
  • rodenticide: means any substance or mixture of substances intended for:

    Indiana Code 15-16-4-38

(2) Any pesticide product if any of the claims made for it or any of the directions for its use differ in substance from the representations made in connection with its registration.

(3) A pesticide product if the composition of the product differs from the composition as represented in connection with its registration. However, at the discretion of the state chemist, a change in the labeling or formula of a pesticide may be made within a registration period without requiring reregistration of the product.

(4) Any pesticide product (except a bulk pesticide or a pesticide in a container designed and constructed to accommodate the return and refill of the container) unless it is in the registrant‘s or the manufacturer’s unbroken immediate container, and there is affixed to that container, and to any outside container or wrapper of the retail package through which the required information on the immediate container cannot be clearly read, a label bearing:

(A) the name and address of the manufacturer, registrant, or person for whom manufactured;

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

(C) the net weight or measure of the content, subject, however, to reasonable variations as the state chemist may permit.

(5) Any pesticide product that is adulterated or misbranded.

(6) Any pesticide product in containers violating rules adopted under section 50(b)(2) of this chapter. Pesticides found in containers that are unsafe due to damage may be seized and impounded.

(7) A highly volatile herbicide except on written permission by the state chemist.

(8) Any bulk pesticide unless it is accompanied in all transfers of custody or ownership by or held in storage vessels to which is affixed a label bearing the information specified in subdivision (4).

(9) Any pesticide that violates the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq.) or regulations adopted under the Act.

[Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-3-3.5-3.]

As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.120-2008, SEC.68; P.L.99-2012, SEC.10; P.L.249-2023, SEC.77.

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