(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 (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;
(d) A community college as defined in ORS 341.005, 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]
Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food
Chapter 634 - Pesticide Control
Section 634.006 - Definitions.
Section 634.026 - Pesticide labeling requirements; highly toxic pesticides; applicability of law.
Section 634.032 - When pesticide is misbranded.
Section 634.036 - When pesticide is adulterated.
Section 634.045 - Avoidance of adverse effects on pollinating insects.
Section 634.057 - State preemption of local pesticide regulation.
Section 634.063 - Exceptions to state preemption of pesticide regulation.
Section 634.106 - Applicability of ORS 634.112 to 634.126 and 634.146.
Section 634.112 - Renewal of licenses or certificates; delinquency.
Section 634.122 - Applicator license; qualifications; examination; fee.
Section 634.126 - Trainee certificate; renewal; fee.
Section 634.128 - Aerial pesticide applicator certificate; fee.
Section 634.132 - Consultant license; fee; qualifications; examination; applicability of law.
Section 634.136 - Dealer license; fee; applicability of law.
Section 634.142 - Private applicator certificate; standards; fee.
Section 634.148 - Retesting following violation.
Section 634.236 - Increasing or decreasing size of protected area; consolidation of areas.
Section 634.242 - Taxing power of area committee; limitation on amount of levy.
Section 634.306 - General duties and powers of department; rules.
Section 634.322 - Enforcement powers of department.
Section 634.326 - Use of moneys received by department.
Section 634.372 - Prohibited acts.
Section 634.500 - Definitions for ORS 634.500 to 634.520.
Section 634.510 - Conditions for sale.
Section 634.515 - Sale by pesticide dealer; duties of customer.
Section 634.520 - Report of sales to department.
Section 634.550 - Center governing board; duties and powers.
Section 634.555 - Pesticide incident telephone line.
Section 634.600 - Committee members; appointment; compensation and expenses; duties.
Section 634.650 - Definitions for ORS 634.650 to 634.665.
Section 634.653 - Appointment of State Integrated Pest Management Coordinator.
Section 634.657 - Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Committee; purposes; report; funding.
Section 634.660 - Agencies and universities required to implement integrated pest management.
Section 634.700 - Definitions for ORS 634.700 to 634.750.
Section 634.720 - Plan coordinators.
Section 634.730 - Reentry into sprayed area; exception; declaration of pest emergency.
Section 634.740 - Written notice requirements; warning signs; failure to notify or warn.
Section 634.750 - Pesticide application records.
Section 634.900 - Penalty for certain violations; amount.
Section 634.905 - When penalty payable; notice; hearing.
Section 634.915 - Schedule for penalty amounts; criteria; rules.