HB131 Alabama 2014 Session

Under existing law, persons engaging in professional work or services pertaining to entomological work, including structural pest control, pathological work, horticultural and floricultural work, and tree surgery work as defined in Section 2-28-1, Code of Alabama 1975, are regulated by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries

This bill would add landscape irrigation work and require that it be regulated by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries

This bill would require a landscape irrigation contractor to obtain a permit and prohibit him or her from supervising more than one office

This bill would also add definitions related to landscape irrigation and pest control and would provide that applicants for examination for a permit to engage in structural pest control work who have been convicted of certain felonies are not eligible to take the examination unless their civil rights have been restored

This bill would exclude persons engaging in the custom application of pesticides from these requirements

To amend Sections 2-28-1, 2-28-2, 2-28-3, 2-28-4, 2-28-5, 2-28-7, and 2-28-12, Code of Alabama 1975, to require that landscape irrigation work be examined by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries; to require a landscape irrigation contractor to obtain a permit and to provide supervisory restrictions; to provide prohibition for structural pest control permit applicants; and to exclude persons engaging in the custom application of pesticides from the requirements.