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<br />AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS OF PEST CONTROL OPERATORS, CREATING THE CIT
<br />OF LA PORTE PEST CONTROL CO[gI~iISSION, AND DEFIrdIIVG THE DUTIES THEREOFt PRESCRIBIN
<br />FOR LICENSING OF ALL PERSONS, FIRIdS, PARTNERSHIPS OR CORPORATIONS IYEIO ARE EN-
<br />GAGED IN THE BUSIrdESS OF PEST CONTROL, I?EFINING TERigS, PROVIDING REGULATIONS AN,i
<br />REQUIREMENTS FOR CONDUCTING EXTERitIINATION ~IORK, PROVIDING SAFETY PRECAUTIONS,
<br />CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE, AND PROVIDING THAT
<br />PERSONS WHO VIOLATE THE ORDINANCE SHALL BE FIrdEP, UPON CONVICTION, NOT LESS THAN
<br />TEN DOLLARS ($10.00) NOR MORE THAN TIRO HUrdDRED DOLLARS ($2CO.OO), AND TIl~1T EACH
<br />DAYS VIOLATIOid SHALL CONSTITUTE A SEPAP~ATE OFFENSE.
<br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COi~tiIISSION OF THE CITY OF LA POR'TE, TEXAS, THAT:
<br />Section 1. Definitions. IVhenever used in this Ordinance, the follow-
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<br />ing definitions and meanings shall apply:
<br />"Pest Control Business" shall mean a business owned by a licensed Pest;
<br />Control Operator and operated by either such licensed Pest Control Operator or
<br />a licensed Employee Operator for the purpose of using or employing insecticides„
<br />rodenticides, fumigants or other substances for the control or destruction of
<br />insects, rodents, termites or other similar pests.
<br />"Pest Control operator" shall mean any person, firm or corporation who
<br />engaged in the business of using or employing insecticides, rodenticides, fumi-
<br />gants or other substances for the control or destruction of insects; rodents,
<br />termites or other similar pests.
<br />"Employee Operator" shall mean any employee of a licensed Pest Control
<br />Operator or Pest Control Business who is in charge of the Pest Control Rosiness
<br />conducted within the City.
<br />"Insecticides" shall riean any substance, not a fumigant; used for the
<br />destruction or control of insects or other similar pests.
<br />"Rodenticides" shall mean any substance, not a fumigant, used for the
<br />destruction ar control of rodents.
<br />"Fumigant" shall mean any substance r~rhich by itself or in combir~tion
<br />with any other substance, emits or may be made to emit gases, fumes or vapors,
<br />dangerous or injurious to human beings, which is used for the purpose of con-
<br />trolling the increase of or destroying insects, rodents, vermin, or any other
<br />similar pest; providing, however, that calcium cyanide, when used as a spot fumi
<br />gent in gassing rodents in enclosed spaces and in such minimal quantities and in
<br />such locations that it, or the gases from it, will not harm human beings or do-
<br />mestic animals,, shall not be considered a fumigant for the purposes of this Ordi
<br />Hance.
<br />"Insecticidal fog" shall mean treatment employing fluid formulations j
<br />consisting of insecticidal chemicals dissolved in a solvent, and therrlally dis- j
<br />persed by the use of a ther-:~al aerosol generator, or other similar generator.
<br />"Flood Infesting Organisms Control" shall mean the application of reme-
<br />dial measures for the purpose of controlling teri,~ites and/or other woad infestinb
<br />organisms in structures.
<br />"Place of Fumigation shall mean any room, portion of building, house,
<br />sea-going vessel; or any enclosed area frequented by human beings.
<br />°'Structure" shall mean any building, regardless of its c;esign, or the
<br />type of materials used in its construction, ;whether public or private, vacant or
<br />occupied, including its foundations.
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