ORS 634.700
Definitions for ORS 634.700 to 634.750


As used in ORS 634.700 (Definitions for ORS 634.700 to 634.750) to 634.750 (Pesticide application records):

(1)

“Campus” means the buildings, other structures, playgrounds, athletic fields and parking lots of a school and any other areas on the school property that are accessed by students on a regular basis.

(2)

“Governing body” means a board of directors, agency or other body or person having policymaking and general oversight responsibility for a community college district, education service district, school district, other unit of education governance, private school or other educational entity.

(3)

“Integrated pest management plan” means a proactive strategy that:

(a)

Focuses on the long-term prevention or suppression of pest problems through economically sound measures that:

(A)

Protect the health and safety of students, staff and faculty;

(B)

Protect the integrity of campus buildings and grounds;

(C)

Maintain a productive learning environment; and

(D)

Protect local ecosystem health;

(b)

Focuses on the prevention of pest problems by working to reduce or eliminate conditions of property construction, operation and maintenance that promote or allow for the establishment, feeding, breeding and proliferation of pest populations or other conditions that are conducive to pests or that create harborage for pests;

(c)

Incorporates the use of sanitation, structural remediation or habitat manipulation or of mechanical, biological and chemical pest control measures that present a reduced risk or have a low impact and, for the purpose of mitigating a declared pest emergency, the application of pesticides that are not low-impact pesticides;

(d)

Includes regular monitoring and inspections to detect pests, pest damage and unsanctioned pesticide usage;

(e)

Evaluates the need for pest control by identifying acceptable pest population density levels;

(f)

Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of pest control measures;

(g)

Excludes the application of pesticides on a routine schedule for purely preventive purposes, other than applications of pesticides designed to attract or be consumed by pests;

(h)

Excludes the application of pesticides for purely aesthetic purposes;

(i)

Includes school staff education about sanitation, monitoring and inspection and about pest control measures;

(j)

Gives preference to the use of nonchemical pest control measures;

(k)

Allows the use of low-impact pesticides if nonchemical pest control measures are ineffective; and

(L)

Allows the application of a pesticide that is not a low-impact pesticide only to mitigate a declared pest emergency or if the application is by, or at the direction or order of, a public health official.

(4)

“Low-impact pesticide” means a product that does not contain a pesticide product or active ingredient described in ORS 634.705 (Adoption of integrated pest management plan and related provisions) (5).

(5)

“Pest” means:

(a)

An insect or other arthropod;

(b)

A weed, moss, slime or mildew or a plant disease caused by a fungus, bacterium or virus;

(c)

A nematode, snail, slug, rodent or predatory animal;

(d)

A bacterium, spore, virus, fungus or other microorganism that is harmful to human health; or

(e)

Other forms of plant or animal life that may infest or be detrimental to vegetation, humans, animals, structures, managed landscapes or other human environments.

(6)

“Pest emergency” means an urgent need to eliminate or mitigate a pest situation that threatens:

(a)

The health or safety of students, staff, faculty members or members of the public using the campus; or

(b)

The structural integrity of campus facilities.

(7)

“Registration number” means the pesticide registration number assigned by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

(8)

“School” means:

(a)

A facility operating an Oregon prekindergarten or a federal Head Start program;

(b)

A public or private educational institution offering education in all or part of kindergarten through grade 12;

(c)

An education service district as defined in ORS 334.003 (Definitions for chapter);

(d)

A community college as defined in ORS 341.005 (Definitions for chapter), for the community college’s own buildings and ground maintenance;

(e)

The Oregon School for the Deaf; and

(f)

A regional residential academy operated by the Oregon Youth Authority. [2009 c.501 §2; 2011 c.9 §82; 2013 c.241 §3]

Source: Section 634.700 — Definitions for ORS 634.700 to 634.750, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors634.­html.

634.005
Short title
634.006
Definitions
634.016
Registration of pesticides and application devices
634.022
Exemption from registration for experimental pesticides
634.026
Pesticide labeling requirements
634.032
When pesticide is misbranded
634.036
When pesticide is adulterated
634.042
Unsafe use of certain pesticides on raw agricultural commodities
634.045
Avoidance of adverse effects on pollinating insects
634.048
Website information regarding pesticides
634.055
Legislative findings
634.057
State preemption of local pesticide regulation
634.060
Actions allowed by city, town, county or other political subdivision
634.063
Exceptions to state preemption of pesticide regulation
634.065
Department consideration of concerns raised by city, town, county or political subdivision
634.106
Applicability of ORS 634.112 to 634.126 and 634.146
634.112
Renewal of licenses or certificates
634.116
Pesticide operator license
634.122
Applicator license
634.126
Trainee certificate
634.128
Aerial pesticide applicator certificate
634.132
Consultant license
634.136
Dealer license
634.142
Private applicator certificate
634.146
Records required of operators
634.148
Retesting following violation
634.172
Procedure for making liability claim against landowner or pesticide operator
634.206
Continuation of protected and restricted areas created by former law
634.212
Formation of protected areas
634.216
Protected area as governmental subdivision upon completion of required filings
634.222
Determination of lawful establishment of protected area in actions or proceedings
634.226
Protected area governing committee
634.232
Restricted area formation
634.236
Increasing or decreasing size of protected area
634.242
Taxing power of area committee
634.306
General duties and powers of department
634.312
Department to develop programs for solution of pesticide and synthetic chemical problems
634.316
List of highly toxic and restricted-use pesticides
634.322
Enforcement powers of department
634.326
Use of moneys received by department
634.372
Prohibited acts
634.375
Sanctions for failure to pay civil penalty
634.410
Study of effects of thiram on health and safety
634.415
Rules to insure adequate precautionary measures in use of thiram in reforestation
634.420
Limit on use of thiram
634.425
Construction of ORS 634.410 to 634.425
634.500
Definitions for ORS 634.500 to 634.520
634.505
Prohibition against sale of compound that releases certain substances in water
634.510
Conditions for sale
634.515
Sale by pesticide dealer
634.520
Report of sales to department
634.550
Center governing board
634.555
Pesticide incident telephone line
634.557
Biennial reporting of telephone line operations
634.600
Committee members
634.650
Definitions for ORS 634.650 to 634.665
634.653
Appointment of State Integrated Pest Management Coordinator
634.655
Policy
634.657
Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Committee
634.660
Agencies and universities required to implement integrated pest management
634.665
Agencies and universities to provide personnel training
634.700
Definitions for ORS 634.700 to 634.750
634.705
Adoption of integrated pest management plan and related provisions
634.710
Plan selection
634.720
Plan coordinators
634.725
Application of low-impact pesticide
634.728
Pesticides used at community colleges for research or instruction
634.730
Reentry into sprayed area
634.740
Written notice requirements
634.750
Pesticide application records
634.900
Penalty for certain violations
634.905
When penalty payable
634.910
Reduction of penalty
634.915
Schedule for penalty amounts
634.925
Disposition of penalties collected
634.992
Criminal penalties
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