Applicators to which commercial pesticide applicator permits, defined in Rule 80-1-13-.06 above are issued, shall obtain their permit in one or more of the following categories:

1. (1) Agricultural Pest Control.

   1. (a) Plant. This category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use pesticides and other pesticides in production of agricultural crops, including without limiting, tobacco, peanuts, cotton, feed grains, soybeans, forage, vegetables, small fruits, tree fruits and nuts, as well as on grasslands and non-crop agricultural lands.

   2. (b) Animal. This category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use and other pesticides on animals, including without limiting, beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine, sheep, horses, goats, poultry, and livestock, and to places on or in which animals are confined.

      Doctors of Veterinary Medicine engaged in the business of applying restricted use and other pesticides for hire, publicly holding themselves out as pesticide applicators, or engaged in large-scale use of restricted use and other pesticides are exempt from this category.

2. (2) Forest Pest Control. This category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use and other pesticides in forests, forest nurseries, and forest seed-producing areas.
3. (3) Ornamental and Turf Pest Control. This category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use and other pesticides to control pests in the maintenance and production of ornamental trees, shrubs, flowers and turf.
4. (4) Seed Treatment. This category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use and other pesticides on seeds.
5. (5) Aquatic Pest Control. This category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of any restricted use and other pesticide purposefully applied to standing or running water, excluding applicators engaged in public health related activities in (h) of this rule.
6. (6) Right-of-way Pest Control. This category includes commercial applications using or supervising the use of restricted use and other pesticides in the maintenance of public roads, electric power lines, pipelines, railway rights-of-way or other similar areas.

7. (7) Industrial, Institutional, Structural and Health-Related Pest Control.

   1. (a) Industrial, Institutional and Household Pest Control. This category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use and other pesticides in, on, or around food-handling establishments, human dwellings, institutions such as schools and hospitals, industrial establishments, including warehouses and grain elevators, other structures and adjacent areas, public or private, for the protection of stored, processed, or manufactured products.
   2. (b) Wood-Destroying Organisms Pest Control. This category includes commercial applicators who apply restricted use and other pesticides for the purpose of preventing, controlling or eradicating termites, various wood borers, fungi, and/or other wood-destroying organisms within, under and on structures, including adjacent outside areas.
   3. (c) Fumigation Pest Control. This category includes commercial applicators who apply restricted use and other fumigants to one or more rooms in a structure or to the entire structure at the desired concentration and for the necessary length of time to control and eradicate pests such as insects, rodents, other vermin and/or organisms.
8. (8) Public Health Pest Control. This category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use and other pesticides in public health programs for the management and control of pests having medical and public health importance. Usually, applicants in this category are government employees.
9. (9) Regulatory Pest Control. This commercial applicator category includes state, federal or other governmental employees who use or supervise the use of restricted use and other pesticides in the control of regulated pests.

10. (10) Demonstration and Research Pest Control. This category includes commercial applicators who demonstrate to the public the proper use and techniques of application of restricted use and other pesticides or supervise such demonstrations.

    1. (a) Demonstration. Applicators in this category shall be persons who demonstrate the proper use and techniques of pesticide application, or supervise such demonstration, as part of their employment including both commercial and educational demonstrations.
    2. (b) Research. Applicators in this category shall be persons who perform or engage in both commercial educational and basic research on pesticides and their uses.
11. (11) Argicutural Commodity Fumigation. This category includes commercial applicators who apply or supervise the application of restricted use and other fumigants to control pests in raw or processed agricultural commodities.
12. (12) Aerial applicator will be a subcategory under all above categories where appropriate.

Author: Charles H. Barnes, Robert J. Russell

Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§2-27-8, 2-27-57.

History: Filed April 19, 1982. Amended: Filed August 18, 2006; effective September 22, 2006. Amended: Filed October 24, 2008; effective November 28, 2008.