                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BOARD TO ADOPT REGULATIONS (§ 3.2-3906)

The Board may adopt regulations pursuant to the Administrative Process Act (§
2.2-4000 et seq.), including:

1. Licensing of businesses that manufacture, sell, store, recommend for use,
mix, or apply pesticides;

2. Registration of pesticides for manufacture, distribution, sale, storage, or
use;

3. Requiring reporting and record keeping related to licensing and registration;

4. Establishing training, testing and standards for certification of commercial
applicators, registered technicians, and private applicators;

5. Revoking, suspending or denying licenses (business), registration (products),
and certification or certificate (applicators or technicians);

6. Requiring licensees and certificate holders to inform the public when using
pesticides in and around structures;

7. Establishing a fee structure for licensure, registration and certification to
defray the costs of implementing this chapter;

8. Classifying or subclassifying certification or certificates to be issued
under this chapter. Such classifications may include agricultural, forest,
ornamental, aquatic, right-of-way or industrial, institutional, structural or
health-related pest control;

9. Restricting or prohibiting the sale or use and disposal of any pesticide or
pesticide container or residuals that: (i) undesirably persists in the
environment or increases due to biological amplification or unreasonable adverse
effects on the environment; or (ii) because of toxicity or inordinate hazard to
man, animal, bird or plant may be contrary to the public interest; and

10. Other regulations necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this
chapter.

HISTORY: 1989, c. 575, §§ 3.1-249.30, 3.1-249.31; 1992, c. 114; 2008, c. 860.