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P-9.3, r. 1 - Pesticides Management Code
Section 59
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59. The application of pesticides in a road, railway or power corridor for their maintenance must be carried out more than 30 m from a watercourse or body of water, except for an application of
(1) pesticides by injection in a tree or shrub, carried out more than 3 m from a watercourse or body of water;
(2) Chondrostereum purpureum on a tree stump, carried out more than 3 m from a watercourse or body of water;
(3) glyphosate on leaves with a knapsack sprayer or ramp-type sprayer, carried out more than 10 m from a watercourse or body of water;
(4) glyphosate or triclopyr on a tree stump, carried out more than 15 m from a watercourse or body of water;
(5) triclopyr on the base of a tree or shrub, carried out more than 15 m from a watercourse or body of water;
(6) pesticide on a railway ballast, carried out with a windbreak, or on wooden hydro or telephone poles; and
(7) a phytocide in a wooded peat bog or a swamp not on a lakeshore, riverbank or littoral zone, located north of the St. Lawrence River, in bioclimatic domains of balsam fir white birch or spruce-moss forests, carried out for the maintenance of a power line corridor.
It is prohibited to apply a pesticide in the water, on the water or on an organism that is in the water during the application described in subparagraph 7 of the first paragraph.
59. The application of pesticides in a road, railway or power corridor for their maintenance must be carried out more than 30 m from a watercourse or body of water, except for an application of
(1) pesticides by injection in a tree or shrub, carried out more than 3 m from a watercourse or body of water;
(2) Chondrostereum purpureum on a tree stump, carried out more than 3 m from a watercourse or body of water;
(3) glyphosate on leaves with a knapsack sprayer or ramp-type sprayer, carried out more than 10 m from a watercourse or body of water;
(4) glyphosate or triclopyr on a tree stump, carried out more than 15 m from a watercourse or body of water;
(5) triclopyr on the base of a tree or shrub, carried out more than 15 m from a watercourse or body of water; and
(6) pesticide on a railway ballast, carried out with a windbreak, or on wooden hydro or telephone poles.
