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505 ILCS 120/10

(505 ILCS 120/10) (from Ch. 5, par. 2801-10)

Sec. 10.

Definitions.

As used in this Act:

"Brand" means a term, design, trademark, product name, or other specific
designation under which individual soil amendments are distributed.

"Bulk" means in a nonpackaged form.

"Department" means the Department of Agriculture.

"Director" means the Director of the Department of Agriculture.

"Distribute" means offer or hold for sale, sell, barter, give away, ship,
deliver for shipment, receive and then deliver, or offer to deliver a soil
amendment in this State.

"Distributor" means any person who distributes a soil amendment in this
State.

"FIFRA" means the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

"Investigational allowance" means an allowance for variations in
analytical determination inherent in the taking, preparation, and analysis
of an official sample of a soil amendment.

"Label" means all written, printed, or graphic material on or attached to
the immediate container or wrapping or the statement accompanying a soil
amendment.

"Labeling" means the label and all other written, printed, or graphic
material accompanying a soil amendment or referring to it in any other
media used to disseminate information to the public in promoting the sale
of a soil amendment.

"Minimum percentage" means the percent of the soil amending ingredient that
must be present in a product before the product will be accepted for
registration or offered for sale.

"Official sample" means any sample of a soil amendment taken by the
Director or his or her agent or designee and designated as "official" by
the Director.

"Other ingredient" means the non-soil amending substance present in soil
amendment products.

"Percent" or "percentage" means a part of the whole by weight.

"Person" means an individual, partnership, association, fiduciary,
corporation, or other organized group of persons whether incorporated or not.

"Registrant" means the person who registers soil amendments under the
provisions of this Act.

"Soil amendment" means any substance or material about which it is
claimed that it will and is intended to improve the characteristics of the
soil or otherwise affect soil and therefore is claimed to enhance crop
production capacity or increase crop yield. The term does not include
fertilizer material, agricultural limestone, marl, burnt or hydrated lime,
sewage sludge produced by a sanitary district, or animal or vegetable
manure that has not been processed or manipulated to chemically alter it.
The term includes several soil and plant additive materials defined and
referred to as soil conditioners; or wetting agents and surfactants; or
biological inoculants and activators; or plant growth regulators and
stimulants.  Any chemical registered as a pesticide under FIFRA is not a
soil amendment for purposes of this Act.

"Soil amending ingredient" means the substance in a soil amendment product,
whether a bacterial agent, mineral element, or chemical compound, that acts to
improve soil or enhance crop production but is not a fertilizing material.

(Source: P.A. 87-394.)