§ 11-5-102 — Definitions

Wyoming § 11-5-102

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 11: Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals
• Ch. 5: WEED AND PEST CONTROL
• Art. 1: IN GENERAL

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(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Pesticide" means any material used to control or
eradicate weeds or pests;
(ii) "Authorized dealer" means any pesticide dealer
licensed in Wyoming who sells, retails, wholesales, distributes,
offers or exposes for sale, exchanges, barters or gives away any
pesticide within this state;
(iii) "Board" means the Wyoming board of agriculture
established by authority of W.S. 11-2-101 through 11-2-104;
(iv) "Director" means the director of the department
of agriculture for the state of Wyoming or his designated agent;
(v) "Control" means the process of containing,
preventing, identifying and mitigating weed and pest
infestations by using multiple integrated management practices,
including but not limited to, regulation, prevention, survey,
eradication, pesticides, cultivation, competition, grazing and
biological control in an adaptive management effort designed to
reduce economic and ecological impacts from designated and
declared species and to protect uninfested lands;
(vi) "County commissioners" means the board of county
commissioners of a county within which a district is located;
(vii) "Declared pest" means any animal or insect
species which the board and the Wyoming weed and pest council
have found, either by virtue of its direct or indirect effect to
negatively impact management of agricultural or natural
ecosystems, or as a carrier of disease or parasites, to be
detrimental to the general welfare of persons residing within a
district;
(viii) "Declared weed" means any plant species which
the board and the Wyoming weed and pest council have found,
either by virtue of its direct or indirect effect to negatively
impact management of agricultural or natural ecosystems, or as a
carrier of disease or parasites, to be detrimental to the
general welfare of persons residing within a district;
(ix) "Department" means the state department of
agriculture;
(x) "Designated list" means the list of weeds and
pests from time to time designated by joint resolution of the
board and the Wyoming weed and pest council or by an emergency
declaration of the director;
(xi) "Designated noxious weed" means plant species
having seeds or other plant parts determined to be detrimental
to the general health or welfare of the state based upon the
following:
(A) Has demonstrated the ability to aggressively
invade native plant communities and agricultural crops;
(B) Is injurious or poisonous to livestock;
(C) Is a carrier of disease or parasites;
(D) Can, by virtue of either direct or indirect
effect, negatively impact management of agricultural or natural
ecosystems.
(xii) "Designated pest" means any animal or insect
species that is determined to be detrimental to the health or
general welfare of the state based upon the following:
(A) Has demonstrated the ability to aggressively
invade native plant communities and agricultural crops;
(B) Is injurious or poisonous to livestock;
(C) Is a carrier of disease or parasites;
(D) Can, by virtue of either its direct or
indirect effect, negatively impact management of agricultural or
natural ecosystems.
(xiii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 191, § 4.
(xiv) "District" means any county weed and pest
control district;
(xv) "District board" means the board of directors of
a district having jurisdiction within the boundaries of the
district it represents;
(xvi) "District board member area" means a
geographical area within a district from which a member of the
board of the district is appointed;
(xvii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 191, § 4.
(xviii) "Farm products" means all crops, crop
products, nursery stock, plants or portions thereof, but shall
not mean livestock;
(xix) "Infested farm products" means farm products
which contain injurious insects, pests, weed seed, poisonous or
injurious plants or any injurious portion thereof, or plant
diseases;
(xx) "Landowner" means any person who has actual use,
exclusive possession of or exercises control over the land
through any lease, easement, right-of-way or estate in the land.
Federal landowner means the federal agency having jurisdiction
over any lands affected by this act;
(xxi) "District supervisor" means the person
appointed or employed by the district board for the purpose of
carrying out this act within a district;
(xxii) "Wyoming weed and pest council" means the
state council composed of one (1) representative of each
district as authorized in writing by that board of directors.
The director of the department of agriculture or his designated
representative shall serve ex officio;
(xxiii) "Emergency declaration" means the addition of
a weed or pest to either the statewide designated list or to a
county declared list on an emergency basis to allow for
immediate control activities. An emergency declaration shall
only last until formal action can be taken by the council and
the board to list the species through established rules, and in
any case not to exceed one (1) year;
(xxiv) "This act" means W.S. 11-5-101 through 11-5-
120.