General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 132B Massachusetts Pesticide Control Act
- Massachusetts General Laws - Title; purpose - Chapter 132B, Section 1
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Massachusetts Pesticide Control Act. The purpose of this chapter is to conform the laws...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 132B, Section 2
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, when used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:— “Active ingredient”, in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pesticide board - Chapter 132B, Section 3
There shall be within the department of food and agriculture a pesticide board which shall consist of the commissioner of environmental protection or his designee,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pesticide board subcommittee - Chapter 132B, Section 3A
A subcommittee of the pesticide board shall be established and shall be charged with the responsibility of registering all pesticides for use in the commonwealth...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Programs director - Chapter 132B, Section 4
The pesticide regulatory functions conferred upon the department under the provisions of this chapter shall be under the administrative supervision of a pesticide programs director...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of department - Chapter 132B, Section 5
The department with the approval of the board may cooperate and enter into cooperative agreements and contracts with appropriate federal agencies, the agencies of other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reduction of pesticide use; annual report - Chapter 132B, Section 5A
The department shall promote the use of biologic controls, integrated pest management, sustainable agriculture and other alternate pest control methods through education, technical assistance and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibited distributions, etc. - Chapter 132B, Section 6
No person shall distribute a pesticide not registered pursuant to the provisions of section seven. This prohibition shall not apply to the transfer of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibited activities - Chapter 132B, Section 6A
No person shall use a registered pesticide in a manner that is inconsistent with its labeling or other restrictions imposed by the department. No person...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pesticide use by utilities; notice; development of policies to reduce pesticide use along roadways; personal protection equipment and clothing - Chapter 132B, Section 6B
(a) No gas, electric, telephone or other utility company licensed to do business in the commonwealth, nor any agency of the commonwealth or any of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pesticide use at schools, child care centers or school age child care programs; standard written notification - Chapter 132B, Section 6C
(a) Pesticides shall not be sprayed, released, deposited or applied indoors while children are on the property of a school, child care center or school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Posting of standard written notification of pesticide use at schools, child care centers and school age child care programs - Chapter 132B, Section 6D
Each school administration, child care center operator, or school age child care program operator shall ensure that standard written notification is posted in a common...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Integrated pest management plans - Chapter 132B, Section 6E
(a) On or before November 1, 2001, each school, child care center and school age child care program in the commonwealth shall adopt and implement,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pesticide products eligible for use indoors at schools, child care centers and school age child care programs - Chapter 132B, Section 6F
Beginning November 1, 2001, pesticide products eligible for use indoors on the facility grounds of any school, child care center or school age child care...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pesticide products eligible for outdoor use at schools, child care centers and school age child care programs - Chapter 132B, Section 6G
Beginning November 1, 2001, pesticide products eligible for use on the outdoor grounds of any school, child care center or school age child care program...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency situations at schools, child care centers and school age child care programs; single-use waivers for pesticides - Chapter 132B, Section 6H
(a) If a school official or an operator of a child care center or school age child care program determines that a human health emergency...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Written or electronic records of pesticide use at schools, child care centers and school age child care programs - Chapter 132B, Section 6I
A written or electronic record of any and all chemical pesticide spraying, release, deposit or application made at a school, child care center or school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pesticide use as part of supervised training programs at vocational, technical and agricultural schools - Chapter 132B, Section 6J
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, sections 6C to 6I, inclusive, shall not apply to the spraying, release, deposit or application of any pesticide...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Review of anti-microbial pesticides - Chapter 132B, Section 6K
The department shall conduct a review of anti-microbial pesticides, as defined in section 2, to determine whether and to what extent they should be subject...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registration - Chapter 132B, Section 7
Pesticides, including pesticides that are federally registered may be registered by the subcommittee of the pesticide board for use in the commonwealth. Each applicant for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pesticide use reporting system - Chapter 132B, Section 7A
(a) Subject to appropriation, the department shall establish and implement a pesticide use reporting system for use by government agencies, researchers, policy makers and the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Experimental use permits - Chapter 132B, Section 8
Any person may apply to the subcommittee for an experimental use permit for a pesticide. Each applicant for an experimental use permit shall file with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dealers’ licenses - Chapter 132B, Section 9
A person may apply to the department to be a licensed pesticide dealer. Said applicants shall submit to the department a statement supplying such information...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates and licenses; issuance, suspension and revocation - Chapter 132B, Section 10
Certifications and licenses to use pesticides may be issued to individuals by the department in accordance with the provisions, standards and procedures contained in and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of health and environment; regulations - Chapter 132B, Section 11
The department shall by regulation establish such restrictions and prohibitions upon the disposal and storage of pesticides, packages and containers of pesticides, and materials used...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hazards; adverse environmental effects; departmental orders; violations - Chapter 132B, Section 12
Whenever it appears to the department that there is an imminent hazard, or a potential threat of unreasonable adverse effect on the environment, or a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adjudicatory hearings - Chapter 132B, Section 13
Any person aggrieved by a determination by the department to register or not to register a pesticide, to suspend a pesticide registration, to issue, not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; penalties; injunctions - Chapter 132B, Section 14
Any person who knowingly violates any provision of section six shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars, or by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Civil administrative penalties; adjudicatory hearings - Chapter 132B, Section 14A
(a) The department may adopt and promulgate such regulations as may be necessary for the enforcement of sections 6C to 6I, inclusive, and the licensing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Departmental personnel, agents and inspectors; powers; evidence; confidential information - Chapter 132B, Section 15
For the purpose of administering the provisions of this chapter, personnel or agents of the department and its inspectors shall have access and entry at...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Children and Families Protection Fund - Chapter 132B, Section 16
There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Children and Families Protection...
Last modified: September 11, 2015