§ 15-16-5-55 — Exemptions from licenses

Indiana § 15-16-5-55

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 16: HORTICULTURE CONTROL
• Ch. 5: Pesticide Use and Application

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Section 48 of this chapter relating to
pesticide business licenses and requirements for their issuance does not
apply to the following:
(1) A farmer who applies pesticides for the farmer's own use or
with ground equipment or manually for the farmer's neighbors if:
(A) the farmer operates farm property and operates and
maintains pesticide application equipment primarily for the
farmer's own use;
(B) the farmer is not engaged in the business of applying
pesticides for hire and the farmer does not publicly profess to
be a pesticide business;
(C) the farmer operates the farmer's pesticide application
equipment only in the vicinity of the farmer's own property and
for the accommodation of the farmer's neighbors without any
compensation; and
(D) the farmer is certified as a private applicator if the farmer
uses restricted use pesticides.
(2) A veterinarian who uses pesticides as an incidental part of the
veterinarian's practice, if the veterinarian is not regularly engaged
in or does not profess to be engaged in the business of using
pesticides for hire.
(3) Research personnel applying general use pesticides only to
bona fide experimental plots.
(4) A person who uses general use pesticides for purposes of
disinfecting or sanitizing.
[Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-3-3.6-10.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.91-2020, SEC.23; P.L.29-2024, SEC.46.