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
Universal Citation: 21 NM Admin Code 21.17.50.8
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 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.
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