---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 170.203"
title: "40"
number: "170.203"
heading: "Exceptions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/170.203"
---

# §170.203. Exceptions.


Exceptions. This subpart does not apply when any pesticide is handled for use on an agricultural establishment in the following circumstances:

- (a) For mosquito abatement, Mediterranean fruit fly eradication, or similar wide-area public pest control programs sponsored by governmental entities.
- (b) **On livestock or other animals, or in or about animal premises.**
- (c) On plants grown for other than commercial or research purposes, which may include plants in habitations, home fruit and vegetable gardens, and home greenhouses.
- (d) On plants that are in ornamental gardens, parks, and public or private lawns and grounds and that are intended only for aesthetic purposes or climatic modification.
- (e) In a manner not directly related to the production of agricultural plants, including, but not limited to, structural pest control, control of vegetation along rights-of-way and in other noncrop areas, and pasture and rangeland use.
- (f) **For control of vertebrate pests.**
- (g) **As attractants or repellents in traps.**
- (h) **On the harvested portions of agricultural plants or on harvested timber.**
- (i) **For research uses of unregistered pesticides.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[57 FR 38151, Aug. 21, 1992. Redesignated at 60 FR 21952, May 3, 1995]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136w.

### Source

Source: 57 FR 38151, Aug. 21, 1992, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[57 FR 38151, Aug. 21, 1992. Redesignated at 60 FR 21952, May 3, 1995]