S.C. Code Regs. § 27-1079 - Certification and Licensing of Noncommercial Applicators
A. No person younger than eighteen (18)
years-old will be licensed as a noncommercial applicator.
B. Noncommercial applicators are not required
to demonstrate the same financial responsibility required of commercial
applicators.
C. Persons holding a
noncommercial applicator's license may use restricted use pesticides, but only
for work in the specific categories, as outlined for commercial applicators, in
which the applicator has demonstrated competence. These licenses are issued to
permit qualified governmental employees to perform their official duties on the
job.
(1) Noncommercial applicators must
submit an application form published by the Department and must pass the same
set of examinations required of the commercial applicators.
(2) Noncommercial applicators are exempt from
the fee requirements imposed on commercial applicators.
(3) Noncommercial applicators' licenses shall
expire on December 31 st of each year.
(4) Noncommercial applicators' licenses are
renewable annually by re-application to the Director prior to January 1 st.
Reexamination is not required for licenses renewed before April 1 st as long as
the recertification requirements of Paragraph 6, below, are complied
with.
(5) Noncommercial applicators
holding valid licenses who desire to have a private applicator's license may
submit the proper application form and the prescribed fee to the Director. A
private applicator license will be issued with no additional training
required.
(6) Recertification
periods for noncommercial applicators are five year periods, beginning January
1 st of 1994 and ending on December 31 st of 1998, 2003, 2008, and every five
(5) years thereafter. During each recertification period after the one in which
the license is issued each Noncommercial Applicator must successfully complete
ten (10) Continuing Certification Hours of training. Alternatively the
applicator may complete the initial licensing requirements and re-apply to the
Director for a license. All Continuing Certification Hours must be approved in
advance by the Department.
Notes
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