2 N.C. Admin. Code 9L.0506

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 12, December 1, 2024

Section 09L .0506 - GOVERNMENTAL WORKERS

Persons in job classifications in the government unit or agencies listed below are required to be licensed as public operators:

(1) North Carolina Department of Transportation, division of highway (14 divisions);

(2) United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service:

(a) staff specialist for witchweed control,

(b) assistant district director,

(c) work unit supervisors,

(d) designated inspectors who supervise pesticide applications,

(e) witchweed methods development laboratory supervisor,

(f) witchweed methods development assistant laboratory supervisor;

(3) North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services plant industry division:

(a) plant pest administrator,

(b) entomological program specialist,

(c) plant pathologist,

(d) greenhouse manager,

(e) area supervisors,

(f) pest control specialists,

(g) all plant pest inspectors who have supervision of pesticide applications as part of their job assignments;

(4) North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, North Carolina Forest Service staff, as outlined in their job descriptions:

(a) foresters and forest technicians tasked with forest management duties such as writing, reviewing and approving herbicide application recommendations;

(b) forest health program head and staff;

(c) nursery program managers, technicians, and equipment operators; and

(d) tree improvement program supervisors, technicians, and equipment operators.

(5) County boards of health and municipal governments:

(a) at least one county environmental health specialist must be licensed where the health department employees apply all the pesticides or supervise, on a weekly or more frequent basis, the activities of all municipal employees applying pesticides;

(b) one county environmental health specialist and one municipal employee for each municipality must be licensed in counties where the health department personnel apply pesticides but have no direct control over municipal employees who apply pesticides; and

(c) one licensed supervisor for each municipality, sanitary district, or mosquito control district must be licensed in counties where only municipal, sanitary district, or mosquito control district personnel apply pesticides.

02 N.C. Admin. Code 09L .0506

Authority G.S. 143-453(c)(1); 143-460(33);
Eff. February 1, 1976;
Amended Eff. May 1, 1991; August 1, 1982; January 27, 1978;
Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. November 22, 2018.

Authority G.S. 143-453(c)(1); 143-460(33); 143-437;
Eff. February 1, 1976;
Amended Eff. May 1, 1991; August 1, 1982; January 27, 1978.
Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. November 22, 2018;

Amended by North Carolina Register Volume 39, Issue 11, December 1, 2024 effective 11/1/2024.