40 CFR §170.203
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Exceptions. This subpart does not apply when any pesticide is handled for use on an agricultural establishment in the following circumstances:
- (a)For mosquito abatement, Mediterranean fruit fly eradication, or similar wide-area public pest control programs sponsored by governmental entities.
- (b)On livestock or other animals, or in or about animal premises.
- (c)On plants grown for other than commercial or research purposes, which may include plants in habitations, home fruit and vegetable gardens, and home greenhouses.
- (d)On plants that are in ornamental gardens, parks, and public or private lawns and grounds and that are intended only for aesthetic purposes or climatic modification.
- (e)In a manner not directly related to the production of agricultural plants, including, but not limited to, structural pest control, control of vegetation along rights-of-way and in other noncrop areas, and pasture and rangeland use.
- (f)For control of vertebrate pests.
- (g)As attractants or repellents in traps.
- (h)On the harvested portions of agricultural plants or on harvested timber.
- (i)For research uses of unregistered pesticides.