Public Comments for: HB922 - Common interest communities; associations may ban use of pesticides in or upon any common area.
Last Name: Moore
Organization: The National Pest Management Association
Locality: Fairfax
Included a file with NPMA's written testimony.
End of Comments
Comments Document
The Virgnia Pest Managment Association strongly opposes HB 922 because it conveys authority to a non-governmental entity, which is not likely to possess the required scientific knowledge to evaluate the impact of pesticides on human health and the environment, to ban a pesticide product from being used on common property within a community. Such authority of the non-governmental entity to determine if a pesticide will or will not be used on such common property, already exists under current statute. The entity does not need additional authority to "ban" a pesticide if it chooses not to use the pesticide on common property.