Title 49

NRS 555.247 Labeling of containers of nursery stock; bulk shipments. 1. All nursery stock shipped from other states to points within this State and all nursery stock shipped intrastate must bear a label on or attached to: (a) The outside of the container in which the nursery stoc…

NRS 555.248 Infected or infested nursery stock: Shipment from State; destruction; treatment. Any nursery stock brought into this State which the Director or inspecting officer finds or has reasonable cause to believe to be infested or infected with any pest must be destroyed imme…

NRS 555.2485 Enforcement by Director: Administrative fine; order to correct violation; request for action by district attorney; regulations. 1. The Director shall adopt regulations specifying a schedule of administrative fines which may be imposed, upon notice and a hearing, for …

NRS 555.249 Penalties. Any person violating the provisions of NRS 555.235 to 555.249, inclusive, or the regulations adopted pursuant thereto is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 6 months, or by a fine of not more th…

NRS 555.2605 Definitions. As used in NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 555.261 to 555.2695, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252; A 1975, 595; 1997,…

NRS 555.261 “Agent” defined. “Agent” means any person who solicits business on behalf of the holder of a business license. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252; A 1975, 358; 2017, 344)

NRS 555.2615 “Aircraft” defined. “Aircraft” means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designed for navigation of, or flight in, the air. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252)

NRS 555.26155 “Applicator” defined. “Applicator” means a natural person, including, without limitation, a natural person who is employed by a city, county, state or other governmental agency, who applies or supervises the application of any pesticide. (Added to NRS by 2017, 342; …

NRS 555.26157 “Authorized commercial applicator” defined. “Authorized commercial applicator” means an applicator who for hire or for profit is licensed to apply or supervise the application of any general-use pesticide and who is authorized to apply or supervise the application o…

NRS 555.2616 “Business license” defined. “Business license” means a license to engage in pest control from a place of business identified on the license, issued by the Department to a natural person or business entity to operate as a pest control business. (Added to NRS by 2017, …

NRS 555.2617 “Certificate” defined. “Certificate” means a certificate of competency issued by the Director to a non-private applicator or private applicator authorizing the applicator to purchase, use or supervise the use of a restricted-use pesticide. (Added to NRS by 1975, 593;…

NRS 555.2619 “Commercial applicator” defined. “Commercial applicator” means an applicator who is licensed to apply or supervise the application of any general-use pesticide for hire or for profit. (Added to NRS by 1975, 593; A 2021, 153)

NRS 555.2625 “Defoliant” defined. “Defoliant” means any substance or mixture of substances intended to cause the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant with or without causing abscission. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252)

NRS 555.263 “Desiccant” defined. “Desiccant” means any substance or mixture of substances intended to accelerate the drying of plant tissues artificially. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252)

NRS 555.2634 “Environment” defined. “Environment” includes the water, air, land and all plants and humans and other animals living therein and the interrelationships which exist among these. (Added to NRS by 1975, 593)

NRS 555.264 “Fungi” defined. “Fungi” means all non-chlorophyll-bearing thallophytes (that is, all non-chlorophyll-bearing plants of a lower order than mosses and liverworts) as, for example, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, yeasts and bacteria, except those on or in living humans or…

NRS 555.2641 “General-use pesticide” defined. “General-use pesticide” means a pesticide that has not been determined to be or classified as a restricted-use pesticide: 1. By the Director; or 2. In accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. §…

NRS 555.2645 “Ground equipment” defined. “Ground equipment” means any machine or device (other than aircraft) for use on land or water, designed for, or adaptable to, use in applying pesticides as sprays, dusts, aerosols or fogs, or in other forms. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1252)

NRS 555.265 “Insect” defined. “Insect” means any of the numerous small invertebrate animals generally having the body more or less obviously segmented, for the most part belonging to the class insecta, comprising six-legged, usually winged forms, as for example beetles, bugs, was…

NRS 555.2654 “Location principal” defined. “Location principal” means the primary principal of a pest control business who has been designated by the business as the person responsible for the daily supervision of each category of pest control conducted from a location of the bus…

NRS 555.2655 “Nematode” defined. “Nematode” means invertebrate animals of the phylum nemathelminthes and class nematoda, that is, unsegmented round worms with elongated, fusiform, or sac-like bodies covered with cuticle, and inhabiting soil, water, plants or plant parts, also cal…

NRS 555.2656 “Neonicotinoid pesticide” defined. “Neonicotinoid pesticide” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 586.188. (Added to NRS by 2023, 390)

NRS 555.2657 “Non-private applicator” defined. “Non-private applicator” means: 1. A natural person who is employed by a city, county, state or other governmental agency, including, without limitation, a conservation district or a weed control district, who: (a) Is licensed to app…

NRS 555.266 “Person” defined. “Person” includes a government, a governmental agency and a political subdivision of a government. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253; A 1985, 526)

NRS 555.2667 “Pest control” defined. “Pest control” means conducting, as a function of the agency, in the case of a city, county, state or other governmental agency, or publicly holding oneself out as being in the business of detecting, preventing, controlling or exterminating pe…

NRS 555.267 “Pesticide” defined. “Pesticide” includes, without limitation: 1. Any substance or mixture of substances, including any living organisms or any product derived therefrom or any fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, nematocide or rodenticide, intended to prevent, destroy,…

NRS 555.2675 “Plant regulator” defined. “Plant regulator” means any substance or mixture of substances intended through physiological action to accelerate or retard the rate of growth or maturation, or otherwise to alter the behavior of plants, but does not include substances ins…

NRS 555.2677 “Primary principal” defined. “Primary principal” means a principal who has been designated by a pest control business as the person responsible for the daily supervision of each category of pest control. (Added to NRS by 2013, 1325)

NRS 555.2679 “Principal” defined. “Principal” means an owner, officer, partner, member or technician of a pest control business who has qualified by examination in one or more categories of pest control. (Added to NRS by 2013, 1325)

NRS 555.2681 “Private applicator” defined. “Private applicator” means an applicator who is certified to apply or supervise the application of any restricted-use pesticide for purposes of producing any agricultural commodity on property owned or rented by the applicator or the app…

NRS 555.2683 “Restricted-use pesticide” defined. “Restricted-use pesticide” means any pesticide, including any highly toxic pesticide, which: 1. The Director has found and determined, after a hearing, to be: (a) Injurious to persons, pollinating insects, bees, animals, crops or l…

NRS 555.2685 “Snails or slugs” defined. “Snails or slugs” include all harmful mollusks. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253)

NRS 555.2687 “Supervision” defined. “Supervision” of the application of a restricted-use pesticide by an authorized commercial applicator, certified non-private applicator or private applicator must be defined by regulation of the Director. (Added to NRS by 1975, 593; A 1993, 171…

NRS 555.269 “Weed” defined. “Weed” means any plant or part thereof which grows where not wanted. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253)

NRS 555.2695 “Wildlife” defined. “Wildlife” means all living things that are neither human, domesticated nor pests, including but not limited to mammals, birds and aquatic life. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1253; A 2015, 3591)

NRS 555.270 Policy of this State; purpose of provisions. It is the policy of this State and the purpose of NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, to regulate, in the public interest, the application of pesticides which, although valuable for the control of pests, may seriously injur…

NRS 555.273 Applicability of provisions concerning restricted-use pesticides. All state agencies, municipal corporations and public utilities or any other governmental agency are subject to the provisions of NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, and rules adopted thereunder concern…

NRS 555.277 Exemption from certain provisions for farmer-owners and gardeners. 1. The provisions of NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, relating to licenses and requirements for their issuance, except those provisions relating to a certificate or permit to use a restricted-use pe…

NRS 555.2777 Temporary exemption from licensure for applicator trainee: Regulations. 1. In accordance with the provisions of this section, the Director shall adopt regulations to authorize a natural person to train as an applicator to engage in pest control for a period of not le…

NRS 555.280 License as applicator required for natural person to engage in pest control; exception; business license required for natural person or business entity to operate as pest control business. 1. Except as otherwise provided in the regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 555.…

NRS 555.285 License as applicator required for natural person to engage in certain activities concerning control of wood-destroying pests or organisms; exception. Except as otherwise provided in the regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 555.2777, a natural person shall not engage i…

NRS 555.290 Application for business license or license as applicator. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional, occupational and recreatio…

NRS 555.300 Examination and qualifications of applicant for license as applicator or business license. 1. If an applicant for a license as an applicator is a primary principal or principal of a pest control business, the Director may require the applicant to show, upon examinatio…

NRS 555.305 Petition to review criminal history to obtain license; requirements; fee; report. 1. The Director shall develop and implement a process by which a person with a criminal history may petition the Director to review the criminal history of the person to determine if the…

NRS 555.310 Fees established by regulation. 1. The Director shall collect from each person applying for examination or reexamination a testing fee established by regulation of the Director. 2. The Director shall, before the license or certificate is issued, collect from each pers…

NRS 555.320 Issuance, expiration and renewal of business license or license as applicator. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional, occupa…