---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 152.500"
title: "40"
number: "152.500"
heading: "Requirements for devices."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/152.500"
---

# §152.500. Requirements for devices.

- (a) A device is defined as any instrument or contrivance (other than a firearm) intended for trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest or any other form of plant or animal life (other than man and other than a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism on or in living man or living animals) but not including equipment used for the application of pesticides (such as tamper-resistant bait boxes for rodenticides) when sold separately therefrom.
- (b) **A device is not required to be registered under FIFRA sec.** 3. The Agency has issued a policy statement concerning its authority and activities with respect to devices, which was published in the Federal Register of November 19, 1976 (41 FR 51065). A device is subject to the requirements set forth in:
  - (1) **FIFRA sec.** 2(q)(1) and [part 156](/cfr/40/part156.md) of this chapter, with respect to labeling;
  - (2) **FIFRA sec.** 7 and [part 167](/cfr/40/part167.md) of this chapter, with respect to establishment registration and reporting;
  - (3) **FIFRA sec.** 8 and [part 169](/cfr/40/part169.md) of this chapter, with respect to books and records;
  - (4) **FIFRA sec.** 9, with respect to inspection of establishments;
  - (5) **FIFRA sec.** 12, 13, and 14, with respect to violations, enforcement activities, and penalties;
  - (6) **FIFRA sec.** 17, with respect to import and export of devices;
  - (7) **FIFRA sec.** 25(c)(3), with respect to child-resistant packaging; and
  - (8) **FIFRA sec.** 25(c)(4), with respect to the Agency's authority to declare devices subject to certain provisions of the Act.

## Notes

### Amendments

[53 FR 15990, May 4, 1988. Redesignated at 60 FR 32096, June 19, 1995]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136-136y; Subpart U is also issued under 31 U.S.C. 9701.

### Amendments

[53 FR 15990, May 4, 1988. Redesignated at 60 FR 32096, June 19, 1995]