Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12751. Section 12751.
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
ARTICLE 1. Definitions [12751. - 12759.]
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in effectCal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12752. Section 12752.
“Defoliating” includes killing or artifically accelerating the drying of plant tissues, with or without causing abscission.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12753. Section 12753.
“Pesticide” includes any of the following:
(a)
Any spray adjuvant.
(b)
Any substance, or mixture of substances which is intended to be used for defoliating plants, regulating plant growth, or for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, as defined in Section 12754.5, which may infest or be detrimental to vegetation, man, animals, or households, or be present in any agricultural or nonagricultural environment whatsoever.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12754. Section 12754.
“Insect” means any animal within the class of animals which are known as “Insecta” or any similar animal such as a centipede, spider, mite, tick, or louse.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12754.5. Section 12754.5.
“Pest” means any of the following that is, or is liable to become, dangerous or detrimental to the agricultural or nonagricultural environment of the state:
(a)
Any insect, predatory animal, rodent, nematode, or weed.
(b)
Any form of terrestrial, aquatic, or aerial plant or animal, virus, fungus, bacteria, or other microorganism (except viruses, fungi, bacteria, or other microorganisms on or in living man or other living animals).
(c)
Anything that the director, by regulation, declares to be a pest.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12755. Section 12755.
“Registrant” means a person that has registered a pesticide and has obtained a certificate of registration from the department.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12756. Section 12756.
“Regulating plant growth” means the use of any substance or mixture of substances intended, through physiological action, for accelerating or retarding the rate of growth or rate of maturation, or for otherwise altering the behavior of plants or the produce thereof.
However, it shall not include the use of substances to the extent that they are intended as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculants, and soil amendments.
Also, “regulating plant growth” shall not be required to include at all the use of any of such of those nutriment mixtures or soil amendments as are commonly known as vitamin-hormone horticultural products, intended for improvement, maintenance, survival, health, and propagation of plants and are not for pest destruction and are nontoxic, nonpoisonous in the undiluted packaged concentration.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12757. Section 12757.
“Rodent” means all members of the order Rodentia and all rabbits and hares.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12757.5. Section 12757.5.
“Service container” means any container, other than the original labeled container of a registered pesticide provided by the registrant, that is utilized to hold, store, or transport the pesticide or the use-dilution of the pesticide.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12758. Section 12758.
“Spray adjuvant” means any wetting agent, spreading agent, deposit builder, adhesive, emulsifying agent, deflocculating agent, water modifier, or similar agent, with or without toxic properties of its own, which is intended to be used with another pesticide as an aid to the application or effect of the other pesticide, and sold in a package that is separate from that of the pesticide other than a spray adjuvant with which it is to be used.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12758.5. Section 12758.5.
“Use-dilution” means a dilution specified on the label or labeling that produces the concentration of the pesticide for a particular purpose or effect.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 12759. Section 12759.
“Weed” means any plant which grows where not wanted.
Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026