§ 15300

For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Structural pest control device” or “device” means any method, instrument, or contrivance intended to be used to prevent, eliminate, destroy, repel, attract, or mitigate any wood destroying pest, but does not include firearms, pesticides as defined in Section 12753, or equipment used for the application of pesticides when sold separately from a pesticide.

(b) “Wood destroying pest” includes, but is not limited to, insects such as wood borers and termites. “Wood destroying pest” does not include wood-decaying fungi, general household pests such as cockroaches, or vertebrate pests such as rats and mice.

(Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 651, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 1999.)