KRS 217B.500: Definitions for KRS 217B.505 to 217B.585.

As used in KRS 217B.500 to 217B.585 unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Applicant" means any person applying for a license;

(2) "Applicator" means a licensed person who makes pesticide applications;

(3) "Board" means the Structural Pest Management Advisory Board;

(4) "Carpenter ants" means those ants that damage wooden structures and are classified

within the genus Camponotus;

(5) "Carpenter bees" means those bees that damage wooden structures and are

classified in the genus Xylocopa;

(6) "Commercial pesticide application" means a pesticide application made by a

licensed person or trainee employed by a structural pest management company on

the property of another for a fee;

(7) "Department" means the Kentucky Department of Agriculture;

(8) "Direct supervision" means the act or process whereby the application of a pesticide

is made by a competent person acting under the instructions and control of a

certified operator or certified applicator who is responsible for the actions of that

person and who is available if and when needed, even though such certified

operator or certified applicator is not physically present at the time and place the

pesticide is applied;

(9) "General pests" means any arthropods, mollusks, annelid worms, rodents, or other

pestiferous vertebrate animals, vermin, or fungi, excluding those defined in

subsections (4), (5), (13), (16), and (20) of this section;

(10) "KPMA" means the Kentucky Pest Management Association, Inc;

(11) "License" means an instrument issued by the department t hat certifies a person is

competent to make pesticide applications in a structural pest management category;

(12) "Noncommercial pesticide application" means pesticide applications made by an

applicator, in the course of employment, on property owned, occu pied, or managed

by the applicator or his or her employer;

(13) "Office" means any location where the application records or pesticide inventory of

a structural pest management company are stored;

(14) "Old house borer" means the cerambycid beetle Hylotrupes bajalus (L.);

(15) "Operator" means a licensed person who manages a structural pest management

company and makes pesticide applications or supervises applicators or trainees

making pesticide applications;

(16) "Powder post beetle" means the beetles that damage wooden structures and are

classified within the families Lyctidae, Bostrichidae, or Anobiidae;

(17) "Structural fumigation" means the use of poisonous gases for the control of general

pests and wood destroying organisms in enclosed structures;

(18) "Structural pest management" means the use of pesticides to prevent, control, repel,

or eliminate wood destroying organisms or general pests in, around, or outside

structures for the purpose of mitigat ing threats to structural integrity, the human

occupancy, or the contents of such structures;

(19) "Structural pest management company" means any company that provides

commercial structural pest management or commercial structural fumigation

services for a fee;

(20) "Termite" means the eastern subterranean termite, Reticulotermes flavipes (Kollar),

the southeastern subterranean termite, R. virginicus Banks, or the light southeastern

subterranean termite, R. hageni Banks;

(21) "Trainee" means an unlicensed p erson employed by a structural pest management

company to make pesticide applications; and

(22) "Wood destroying organisms" means those organisms that cause damage to the

wood used in the construction of structures including the insects defined under

subsections (4), (5), (13), (16), and (20) of this section.