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New York Pesticide Certification and Registration

About 5 of every 50 questions on a New York Core practice exam come from this topic.

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What to know

DEC certifies pesticide applicators under ECL Article 33 and 6 NYCRR Parts 325 and 326. Commercial application, private application of restricted use pesticides and their sale need certification, valid only with a DEC identification card, for three years (commercial) or five (private). Technicians may apply general use pesticides commercially unsupervised and any pesticide under a certified commercial applicator's direct supervision. Apprentices, at least 16, need 40 hours of supervised use and 8 hours of instruction before off-site supervision, which means contact within 30 minutes; technician fumigant work and apprentice work in schools, day care facilities and hospitals need the supervisor on site, and apprentices never make subsurface termiticide applications. Supervisors are the business's own employees, applicators stay in the categories on their card (structural pests are 7A), private applicators never apply commercially, and a non-supervising owner supplies PPE. Technicians may qualify after two apprentice years, applicators after three full-time years within five; core and category exams follow, two core failures require eight credit hours of instruction, and the category exam must come within six months of the core. Businesses applying for hire register for three years; a technician can qualify one in 3A. Dealers need a commercial permit per location and keep restricted use records two years; others need a purchase permit. A felony can bring revocation, and special permits stop after two consecutive seasons. At least 25% of recertification credits are category-specific, and commercial-only labels need a commercial permit or ID card.

Where it comes from

  • ECL §§ 33-0101(36), 33-0901, 33-0903, 33-0905, 33-0907, 33-0909
  • 6 NYCRR §§ 325.1, 325.6, 325.7
  • 6 NYCRR §§ 325.8, 325.9, 325.10, 325.11
  • 6 NYCRR §§ 325.38, 326.2(g)
  • DEC, Business/Agency Pesticide Information
  • DEC, Certification Categories and Credit Requirements

Try a practice question

Under ECL § 33-0905, which of these activities requires DEC certification?

  1. AApplying a general use pesticide to one's own crop
  2. BBuying a general use pesticide at a garden store
  3. CSelling a restricted use pesticide
  4. DTreating one's own lawn with a general use product
Show the answer

Selling a restricted use pesticide. Commercial application, private application and the sale of restricted use pesticides require certification. Residential application and private application of a general use pesticide are exempt.

ECL § 33-0905(1)-(2)