Section 60-03-01-05 - Classes of commercial applicator, public applicator, and dealer certificationsA commercial applicator, public applicator, or dealer certificate may be issued to individuals who pass a core certification examination and who have obtained certification in one or more of the following classes:
1.Agricultural pest control (plant and animal). This class authorizes the use of pesticides intended for agricultural crop land, grasslands, animals, animal facilities, and noncrop lands, including natural areas, fallow, nonproducing agricultural lands, and mines.2.Seed treatment. This class authorizes the use of pesticides intended for agricultural crop seeds, other seeds, and vegetative seed stocks.3.Commodity and structural fumigation. This class authorizes the use of fumigant pesticides intended for raw agricultural commodities, processed foods, nonfood commodities, transport vessels, commodity processing facilities, and commodity storage structures.4.Ornamental and turf pest control. This class authorizes the use of pesticides intended for producing and maintaining ornamental trees, shrubs, flowers, and turf.5.Greenhouse. This class authorizes the use of pesticides intended for greenhouses.6.Right of way. This class authorizes the use of pesticides in parking lots and rights of way for roads, powerlines, telecommunication lines, pipelines, and railways, and in other similar areas.7.Public health pest control. This class authorizes the use of pesticides by government employees, applicators working under government contract, or other persons for public health purposes.8.Research and demonstration pest control. This class authorizes the use of pesticides by individuals for the purpose of education or research. These would include county agents, state, federal, and commercial employees, plus other persons conducting research or demonstrating the proper application of restricted use pesticides.9.Home, industrial, and institutional pest control. This class authorizes the use of pesticides in or around food-handling establishments, human dwellings, public or private institutions, warehouses, grain elevators, and any other structures.10.Wood preservatives. This class authorizes the use of pesticides intended to preserve lumber products.11.Vertebrate. This class authorizes the use of pesticides intended to control vertebrate pests, such as rodents, certain predators, and bats not in or around structures.12.Sewer root control. This class authorizes the use of pesticides intended to control tree or other plant roots infesting sewer systems.N.D. Admin Code 60-03-01-05
Amended effective February 1,1982; October 1,1990; November 1,1991; March 1, 1996; August 1, 2000; March 1, 2003; January 1, 2013.General Authority: NDCC 4-35-06
Law Implemented: NDCC 4-35-06, 4-35-08, 4-35-09, 4-35-12, 4-35-14