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482.155 Limited certification for governmental pesticide
applicators or private applicators.-- GERMAN COCKROACH
(1)(a) The department shall establish limited certification
categories for:
1. Persons who apply pesticides only as governmental employees.
2. Persons who apply pesticides only to their own private property,
and employees who apply pesticides to private property owned by
their employers. This includes properties such as public buildings,
schools, hospitals, nursing homes, grocery stores, restaurants,
apartments, and common areas of condominiums and any other Photo Courtesy of UNIVAR
private properties where the public may be exposed to pesticide
applications.
(b) A person seeking limited certification under this subsection must pass an examination given
or approved by the department. Each application for examination must be accompanied by an
examination fee set by the department, in an amount of not more than $150 or less than $50;
and a re-certification fee of $25 every 4 years. Until rules setting these fees are adopted by the
department, the examination fee is $50. Application for re-certification must be accompanied
by proof of having completed 4 classroom hours of acceptable continuing education. The
department shall provide the appropriate reference material and make the examination readily
accessible and available to all applicants at least quarterly or as necessary in each county.
(c) Certification obtained under this subsection does not authorize operation of a pest control
business.
(2) In lieu of obtaining limited certification under subsection (1), a governmental employee or
private property applicator may apply pesticides if she or he is trained and supervised by a
certified operator who is certified by the department in the categories of pest control that are
performed by the employee or applicator and who is employed full time by the governmental
agency or private property owner for which the pest control is performed.
(3) A person who applies pesticides under this section shall maintain, for a period of at least
2 years, routine operational records containing information pertaining to each application of a
restricted-use pesticide including the name of the applicator and the type, amount, use, date,
and place of application.
(4) This section does not apply to the application of disinfectants, sanitizers, or ready-to-use
pesticides sold over the counter at retail.
(5) A limited certification granted under this section does not authorize the performance of
fumigation of a structure.

482.156 Limited certification for commercial landscape maintenance personnel.--
(1) The department shall establish a limited certification category for individual commercial
landscape maintenance personnel to authorize them to apply herbicides for controlling weeds in
plant beds and to perform integrated pest management on ornamental plants using insecticides
and fungicides having the signal word “caution” but not having the word “warning” or “danger”
on the label. The application equipment that may be used by a person certified pursuant to this
section is limited to portable, handheld 3-gallon compressed air sprayers or backpack sprayers
having no more than a 5-gallon capacity and does not include power equipment.
(2)(a) A person seeking limited certification under this section must pass an examination given
by the department. Each application for examination must be accompanied by an

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