Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3374 – Fees
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3374
- Commission: means the Structural Pest Control Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3362
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3362
- Place of business: means a permanent location or a portion of a permanent location from which business, in a regulated profession or occupation, is transacted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
- Structural pest: means any member of any species of wood-destroying insects, vermin, rodents, vertebrates, and pest birds which attack and damage wood. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3362
- Structural pest control: means any procedure intended to effect the prevention, regulation, extermination, or eradication of structural pests in household, commercial, and vacant structures, including adjacent outside areas and the contents of such structures. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3362
A. Each person who holds a place of business permit shall pay the fees established in this Subsection for standard contracts and wood destroying insect reports. Fees shall be paid at the expense of the person who holds the place of business permit and shall be paid at the time the person files the report required by La. Rev. Stat. 3:3370(B). The fee for each standard contract reported shall be established by the commission by rule at not more than sixteen dollars. The fee for each wood destroying insect report reported shall be established by the commission by rule at not more than sixteen dollars. When the amount of the fees collected pursuant to this Section in any fiscal year equals the amount appropriated for the commission and its programs for that fiscal year, the commission shall allocate the fees collected for standard contracts and wood destroying insect reports for the remainder of that fiscal year to the Louisiana State University Experiment Station for the purpose of structural pest control research.
B. The other fees charged under this Part shall be as follows:
(1) The annual permit fee for a place of business at which two or fewer licensed structural pest control operators or registered technicians are employed shall be established by the commission by rule at not less than one hundred twenty-five dollars and not more than one hundred fifty dollars.
(2) The annual permit fee for a place of business at which three or more licensed structural pest control operators or registered technicians are employed shall be established by the commission by rule at not less than one hundred seventy-five dollars and not more than two hundred dollars.
(3) The fee for the examination for the structural pest control operator’s license shall be fifty dollars.
(4) The fee for the examination for the technician’s registration shall be twenty-five dollars.
(5) The fees for the registration of technicians shall be as follows:
(a) The fee for the administrative processing of the registration certificate shall be established by the commission by rule at not less than twenty dollars and not more than twenty-five dollars. This fee shall be paid at the time of initial registration and shall be for the time period beginning on the date of registration and ending on the following June thirtieth.
(b) The annual registration fee for registered technicians shall be established by the commission by rule at not less than twenty dollars and not more than twenty-five dollars.
(c) The administrative fee for processing the change of registration each time a registered technician is employed by a different pest control operator shall be ten dollars.
(6) The annual license fee for licensed pest control operators shall be established by the commission by rule at not less than five dollars and not more than ten dollars for each category in which the pest control operator is licensed.
(7) The commission by rule shall establish fees for chemical or other analyses which are performed at the request of any person other than the commission or the Department of Agriculture and Forestry. The fees shall be based on the cost of obtaining the sample, obtaining the analysis, and processing the request for the analysis.
C. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all fees established by the commission shall be based on the cost of administering the provisions of this Part.
D. All annual fees collected by the commission shall be due and payable on the first day of July of each year.
Acts 1984, No. 800, §1, eff. July 13, 1984; Acts 1988, No. 148, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1032, §1; Acts 2015, No. 201, §1.
{{NOTE: See Acts 1988, No. 148, §§2, 3, & 4.}}