(1) Operator licensing examinations for commercial structural pest management and commercial structural fumigation shall be given at least two (2) times per year.
(2) All license testing fees shall be established in administrative regulations promulgated by the department.
(3) Examinations shall be given to all qualified applicants. No oral examinations shall be given.
(4) The commercial structural pest management operator’s examination shall consist of no less than two hundred sixty (260) written questions and identification of no less than forty (40) wood destroying organisms and general pests. The commercial structural fumigation operator’s examination shall consist of no less than eighty (80) written questions and identification of no less than twenty (20) wood destroying organisms and general pests.
(5) The licensing examination shall be a timed examination. Five (5) hours shall be allowed for the commercial structural pest management examination and two (2) hours for the commercial structural fumigation examination.
(6) The applicant must achieve a grade of at least 70% correct on the written questions and at least 70% correct on the identification to pass the licensing examination. The applicant must take and pass the entire examination to become licensed.
(7) The commercial structural pest management operator’s examination and all other structural pest management license examinations shall serve as the examinations necessary to fulfill federal commercial pesticide applicator certification requirements, including industrial, institutional, structural and health related pest control, and the commercial structural fumigation operator’s examination and all other fumigation license examinations shall serve as the examinations necessary to fulfill federal commercial pesticide applicator certification requirements for nonsoil fumigation.
Effective: June 29, 2021
History: Amended 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 22, effective June 29, 2021. — Created
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 81, sec. 7, effective June 17, 1978.