Exemptions; supervision by allopathic or osteopathic physician or doctor of veterinary medicine.

MCL 324.8319

in effect

324.8319. Exemptions; supervision by allopathic or osteopathic physician or doctor of veterinary medicine. Sec. 8319. (1) The certification and registration of applicators and licensing requirements do not apply to any of the following: (a) Employees of a certified private agricultural applicator while acting under the level of supervision required in this part. (b) Persons applying general use pesticides for a private agricultural purpose. (c) Commercial applicators applying general use microbiocides indoors where there is no potential for movement of an antimicrobial pesticide to affect surface water or groundwater. However, this subdivision does not exempt from these requirements the application of antimicrobial pesticides by commercial applicators to plants or planting medium indoors. (d) Persons not subject to licensing requirements in section 8313 that apply general use pesticides to swimming pools. (e) Indoor applications of general use antimicrobial pesticides by persons on their own premises or employees of those persons when making applications on those premises as a scheduled and required work assignment in the course of their employment, where there is no potential for movement of an antimicrobial pesticide to affect surface water or groundwater. (f) Allopathic or osteopathic physicians and doctors of veterinary medicine applying pesticides during the course of their normal practice and their employees and people working under their control while acting under the level of supervision required in subsections (2) and (3). (g) Persons conducting laboratory type research involving restricted use pesticides. (2) An allopathic or osteopathic physician or a doctor of veterinary medicine shall supervise the application of a general use pesticide by a competent employee under his or her instruction and control during the course of the normal practice of the allopathic or osteopathic physician or the doctor of veterinary medicine even if the allopathic or osteopathic physician or the doctor of veterinary medicine is not physically present. An allopathic or osteopathic physician or a doctor of veterinary medicine shall directly supervise the application of a restricted use pesticide by an employee under his or her instruction or control during the course of the normal practice of the allopathic or osteopathic physician or doctor of veterinary medicine by being physically present at the time and place the restricted use pesticide is being applied. (3) An allopathic or osteopathic physician or doctor of veterinary medicine is subject to the requirements, prohibitions, and penalties of this part and rules promulgated under this part for an application of pesticides by the allopathic or osteopathic physician or the doctor of veterinary medicine and for an application of pesticides by an employee directly or indirectly supervised by the allopathic or osteopathic physician or the doctor of veterinary medicine during the course of the normal practice of the allopathic or osteopathic physician or the doctor of veterinary medicine. 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995; Am. 1996, Act 312, Imd. Eff. June 24, 1996; Am. 2002, Act 418, Imd. Eff. June 5, 2002 [PopularName] Act 451 [PopularName] NREPA

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