1.  The Director shall require from each applicant for a business license proof of public liability and property damage insurance in an amount of:

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 555.330

  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Control: means to cut, destroy or eradicate established noxious weed populations in order to prevent:

    (a) The spread, maturation and dispersal of any propagative part of the noxious weed; and

    (b) The reproduction and spread of the noxious weed. See Nevada Revised Statutes 555.005

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Director: means the Director of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 555.005
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
  • Pest: means any form of animal or vegetable life detrimental to the crops, horticulture, livestock, public health, wildlife, quality of water and beneficial uses of land in this State, including, without limitation, any insect, snail, nematode, fungus, virus, bacterium, microorganism, mycoplasma, weed, parasitic plant or any other plant that is normally considered to be a pest of cultivated plants, uncultivated plants, agricultural commodities, horticultural products or nursery stock, or that the Director declares to be a pest. See Nevada Revised Statutes 555.005

(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b), not less than $50,000.

(b) If the business license would authorize the application of pesticides by aircraft:

(1) Not less than $100,000 for bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident;

(2) Subject to the limit for one person, not less than $300,000 for bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident; and

(3) Not less than $100,000 for each occurrence of damage to property in any one accident. The Director may accept a liability insurance policy or surety bond in the proper amount.

2.  The Director may require drift insurance for the use of pesticides or other materials declared hazardous or dangerous to humans, livestock, wildlife, crops or plantlife.

3.  Any person injured by the breach of any such obligation is entitled to sue in his or her own name in any court of competent jurisdiction to recover the damages the person sustained by that breach, if each claim is made within 6 months after the alleged injury.

4.  The Director on his or her own motion may, or upon receipt of a verified complaint of an interested person shall, investigate, as he or she deems necessary, any loss or damage resulting from the application of any pesticide by a licensed applicator, commercial applicator, authorized commercial applicator, licensed pest control operator, primary principal, location principal or principal. A verified complaint of loss or damage must be filed within 60 days after the time that the occurrence of the loss or damage becomes known except that, if a growing crop is alleged to have been damaged, the verified complaint must be filed before 50 percent of the crop has been harvested. A report of investigations resulting from a verified complaint must be furnished to the person who filed the complaint.

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