New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 21 - AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING › Chapter 17 - PEST, DISEASE, AND WEED CONTROL › Part 50 - PESTICIDES › Section 21.17.50.8 - LICENSE CATEGORIES

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. This
				section delineates the license categories and the scope of operations which may
				be performed under each category. These license categories represent the
				certification examinations taken by commercial, public and non-commercial
				applicators, pest management consultants and public pest management
				consultants.
B. License category
				and code number:
(1) lA -- Agricultural pest
				control -- includes the control of insects, mites, plant, diseases, nematodes,
				and the use of soil fumigants, on agronomic crops.
(2) lB -- Agricultural weed control --
				includes the control of undesirable plants that compete with agricultural crops
				for water and plant nutrients and includes the use of desiccants, fumigants and
				defoliants.
(3) lC -- Animal pest
				control -- includes spraying, dusting, dipping, or administering pesticides
				internally to control pests such as lice, mites, bots, fleas and flies on pets
				and livestock or treatment of places where animals are confined.
(4) 2-- Forest pest control -- includes the
				application of pesticides in forests, forest nurseries and forest seed
				producing areas.
(5) 3A --
				Ornamental and turf pest control: insecticides and fungicides -- includes the
				control of insect and disease pests in the maintenance and production of
				ornamental trees, shrubs, flowers and turf.
(6) 3B -- Ornamental and turf pest control:
				herbicides -- includes the control of undesirable vegetation in the maintenance
				and production of ornamental trees, shrubs, flowers and turf.
(7) 4 -- Seed treatment -- includes the
				treatment of seeds to control insects, plant diseases and other
				pests.
(8) 5 -- Aquatic pest
				control -- includes the application of a pesticide to standing or running water
				to control algae, undesirable fish and other aquatic organisms, excluding
				public health pest control.
(9) 6
				-- Right-of-way pest control -- includes the control of vegetation along public
				roads, electric powerlines, pipelines, railway rights-of-way, around oil well,
				storage areas, airports and similar areas.
(10) 7A -- Structural pest control --
				includes the control of household pests, fabric pests and stored product
				pest.
(11) 7B -- Vertebrate animal
				control -- includes the control of rodents, birds, bats and predators of
				wildlife and domestic animals.
(12)
				7C -- Fumigation -- includes the use of gases such as methyl bromide, hydrogen
				cyanide and phosphine to control pests in structures, railroad cars, stored
				grain and similar areas.
(13) 7D --
				Wood destroying pest control -- includes the control of termites, carpenter
				ants, wood-boring or tunneling beetles, fungi and other organisms which attack
				lumber in structures or sawed lumber.
(14) 8 -- Public health pest control --
				includes the control of mosquitoes, flies, fleas and other vectors that
				transmit human or animal diseases.
(15) 9 -- Regulatory pest control -- includes
				state, federal or other governmental employees who control regulated and/or
				quarantined pests.
(16) 10 --
				Demonstration and research pest control -- includes:
(a) individuals who demonstrate to the public
				the proper use of restricted-use pesticides; or
(b) who conduct field research with
				pesticides.
(17) 11 --
				Other -- to be assigned by the director.