This act shall be administered by the Division of Plant Pest Control of the Vermont Department of Agriculture.
For purposes of this act the following are declared to be pests:
Mamals, including but not limited to dogs, cats, moles, bats, deer, woodchucks, raccoons, porcupines, rats, and mice;
Birds, including but not limited to grackles, starlings, pigeons, English sparrows, crows, and blackbirds;
Fish, such as are declared undesirable by Fish and Game authorities;
Aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates, including but not limited to slugs, snails, and leeches.
In the matter of determining which poisons are: highly toxic to man; coloring of such materials; restriction of sales of materials determined by the Commissioner to be highly toxic to man including but not limited to thallium sulphate, sodium fluoroacetate (1080), arsenic trioxide, sodium arsenite and phosphorus paste products; devices; and uses, the requirements which shall be adopted by the Federal Government for administration of the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act passed in 1947, as amended, shall apply to the administration of the above-named act as provided under Section 916 - "Cooperation with State and Federal Agencies" and Section 917 - "Uniformity between State and Federal Regulations."
Whenever it is deemed essential to proper administration of this Act, duly accredited agents of the Commissioner may obtain samples of pesticides by purchase from dealers for laboratory examination.
20-001 Code Vt. R. 20-031-001-X
AMENDED: October 28, 1969; July 15, 1975; AUgust 9, 1976