(a) Except as provided in § 62-21-118(b) or § 43-8-115, no city, town, county or other political subdivision of this state shall adopt or continue in effect any ordinance, rule, regulation or statute regarding pesticide sale or use, including, but not limited to, registration, notification of use, advertising and marketing, distribution, applicator training and certification, storage, transportation, disposal, disclosure of confidential information or product composition.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 62-21-129

  • Certification: means the authorization by the commissioner to use, supervise the use of, buy or sell restricted use pesticides or to issue a wood destroying insect infestation inspection report. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
  • Pesticide: means any substance or mixture of substances or chemical intended for defoliating or desiccating plants or for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any insects, rodents, fungi, bacteria, weeds or other forms of plant or animal life the commissioner declares to be a pest. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
  • Registration: means an instrument authorizing a person to act as solicitor, salesperson or agent for a chartered pest control business. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(b) This section shall not be construed to limit the authority of a city, town or county to zone for storage of such products or to provide or designate sites for disposal of such products, to regulate discharge to sanitary sewer system or to implement an approved pesticide management plan as may be required by the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. § 300f et seq.)
(c) This section does not apply to any municipality having a population of not less than sixteen thousand five hundred (16,500) nor more than seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census.
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