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Ch 3: Section three: Other pertinent state laws

Learning objectives for section three

1. Name the agency that regulates the licensing of commercial pesticide applicators in New York State.
    
2. List four things you are required to do by the New York State Sanitary Code.
    
3. Describe three scenarios of what might happen to an unvaccinated dog that’s bitten a person, possibly exposing that person to rabies.
    
4. List three rules that apply to the use of firearms.
    
5. FIFRA and state pesticide regulations place four crucial restrictions on NWCO activity—name them.

Review questions

1. You'd like to euthanize an opossum using a firearm. There's a summer home about 80 yards from your customer's property. Can you use this technique legally?
   1. yes, no problem
   2. no, because you're too close to the neighbor's summer home
   3. yes, but only as a guest of the owners or lessees of the summer home, and with their consent
   4. do not have enough information to decide.
       
2. You're talking to a man on the phone, and he's frantic. A stray dog has bitten his child. He wants you to capture it and have it tested for rabies. When you get there, the child is screaming and doesn't want to let you near the dog if you're going to kill it. What do you do?
   1. call the county health department
   2. restrain and isolate the animal, then try to find out who owns the dog
   3. explain that the dog doesn't have to be killed. It could be held in quarantine for ten days to determine if it's rabid, but if the owner can't be found, they'd have to pay for it.
   4. all of the above
       
3. Who certifies commercial pesticide applicators in New York State
   1. US EPA
   2. Pesticide Applicator Board, NYS Dept. of Agriculture and Markets
   3. Bureau of Pesticide Management, NYS DEC
   4. None of the above
       
4. The New York State Sanitary Code
   1. requires you to report potentially rabid animals and cases when a person or animal may have been exposed to rabies.
   2. regulates the operation of commercial kitchens in restaurants, schools, nursing homes, and hospitals
   3. applies only when a person has been exposed to rabies
   4. focuses on wildlife, not domestic animals

Answers

1. c
    
2. d
    
3. c AND a
    
4. a

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