Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 651, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 1999.
(a)The director shall endeavor to prevent and eliminate from use in this state any device that meets any of the following criteria:
(1)The device endangers human health or safety, property, or the environment.
(2)The device is not beneficial or efficacious for the purposes for which it is manufactured for sale, advertised, delivered or otherwise provided, offered for sale or lease, sold, leased, possessed, or used.
(3)Is misrepresented.
(b)The director may establish specific criteria to evaluate a device. The director may establish performance standards and tests of structural pest control devices, which are to be conducted by the applicant for registration, registrant, or parties interested in the registration of the device.
(c)Before a device is registered, the director shall conduct, or cause to be conducted, a thorough and timely evaluation of the device. The director may impose reporting requirements and restrictions upon the use of a device, including, but not limited to, limitations on area and manner of application. The director may reevaluate any registered device.
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