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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="5-208" title_number="5" title_name="Pesticide and Pest Control" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Pesticide Applicator's Law">
  <level label="a">
    <text>When a pesticide is applied, or at the time a customer enters into a contract with a licensee for pest control, a licensee shall provide a customer with the following written information:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Name of licensee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Maryland pesticide business license number;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Telephone number of licensee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Common name of pesticide or active ingredient applied;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Pertinent safety information, as determined by the Department, including health risks for humans and animals, about pesticide in the end-use dilution applied;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Maryland Poison Center telephone number; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Any other information required by the Department.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Upon the customer’s request, the licensee shall provide the customer with advance notice of a pesticide application.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A licensee or public agency permittee applying a pesticide to a lawn or to exterior landscape plants shall post at the time of application a sign.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The sign shall remain 48 hours following the pesticide application, after which time the customer is responsible for the removal of the sign.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A person may not remove, alter, or deface the sign or agree or conspire with another to remove, alter, or deface the sign within 48 hours of its posting.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The customer or licensee may not be held liable for any penalty for sign removal under this subtitle if the sign is removed by another person or cause over which the customer or licensee has no control.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The sign shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Be clearly visible either from the principal place of access to the property; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Be clearly visible on the portion of the property where the pesticide is applied.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The sign shall contain a uniform statement approved by the Department.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Before applying an experimental use pesticide, the holder of the required experimental use permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shall provide the Department with the following information:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Name of cooperator;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Location of planned application or treatment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Name of active ingredient of pesticide;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Purpose of application or use;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Total acreage being affected by application;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Toxicological profile of pesticide; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Any other information required by the Department.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
