KRS 217B.530: Operator licensing examinations for commercial structural pest

management and commercial structural fumigation.

(1) Operator licensing examinations for commercial structural pest management and

commercial structural fumigation shall be given at least two (2) times per year.

(2) All license testing fees shall be established in administrative regulations

promulgated by the department.

(3) Examinations shall be given to all qualified applicants. No oral examinations shall

be given.

(4) The commercial structural pest management operator's examination shall consist of

no less than two hundred sixty (260) written questions and identification of no less

than forty (40) wood destroying organisms and general pests. The commercial

structural fumigation operator's examination shall consist of no less than eighty (80)

written questions and identification of no less than twenty (20) wood destroying

organisms and general pests.

(5) The licensing examination shall be a timed examination. Five (5) hours shall be

allowed for the commercial structural pest management examination and two (2)

hours for the commercial structural fumigation examination.

(6) The applicant must achieve a grade of at least 70% correct on the written questions

and at least 70% correct on the identification to pass the licensing examination. The

applicant must take and pass the entire examination to become licensed.

(7) The commercial structural pest management operator's examination and all other

structural pest management license examina tions shall serve as the examinations

necessary to fulfill federal commercial pesticide applicator certification

requirements, including industrial, institutional, structural and health related pest

control, and the commercial structural fumigation operato r's examination and all

other fumigation license examinations shall serve as the examinations necessary to

fulfill federal commercial pesticide applicator certification requirements for nonsoil

fumigation.