Except where otherwise provided, the terms and definitions adopted by the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials in its last published official publication are adopted by reference as the terms and definitions to control in this part. (The publication is available from the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials.) In addition, the following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

1. (1) Available Phosphate/Phosphorous/Phosphoric Acid as P[sub]2[/sub]O[sub]5[/sub] shall refer solely and exclusively to those compounds containing orthophosphate, i.e., compounds possessing a formal +5 electrical charge on each of the constituent phosphorous atoms.
2. (2) Inorganic Fertilizer--A mineral, nutrient source containing less than 5.0% carbonaceous material.
3. (3) Natural Materials, animal, plant, or mineral--Found solely in or produced solely by nature which have neither been mixed with any synthetic material nor changed from their initial physical state except by washing, air-drying, chopping, grinding, shredding, or pelleting and not changed in its chemical state except by biological degradation or chemical change initiated solely under normal conditions of aging, rainfall, sun-curing or sun-drying, composting, rotting, enzymatic or anaerobic bacterial action, or any combination thereof.
4. (4) Person--Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any character.
5. (5) Salvage--When applied to plant nutrients or additives, refers only to those products that have been damaged by natural causes, such as fire, water, hail, or windstorm, or by conveyance mishap.
6. (6) Specialty Fertilizer--Fertilizer distributed primarily for non-farm use, including use on or in home gardens, lawns, shrubbery, flowers, golf courses, municipal parks, cemeteries, greenhouses, or nurseries. The term does not include the excreta of an animal, plant remains, or a mixture of those substances, for which no claim of essential plant nutrients is made.

Source Note:The provisions of this §65.1 adopted to be effective October 7, 1983, 8 TexReg 3813; amended to be effective April 29, 1992, 17 TexReg 2763; amended to be effective September 4, 1996, 21 TexReg 7975.