• About DPR
• Contact Us
• Customer Service Survey
• Join E-Lists

Featured Links

• Community Guide to Recognizing and Reporting Pesticide Problems
• Complaints
• Compliance assistance for employers
• Decisions pending and opportunities for public participation
• Environmental Justice
• How to get a license or product registration
• Information for physicians
• School IPM
• Structural Pest Control Board

Reference Links

• Databases
• Laws
• Look up pesticide illnesses
• Look up pesticide products
• Performance and accountability
• Regulations
• Translations
• Useful links

Licensing and Certification Program

Back to Home Page
A to Z Licensing Index

Sign up to receive e-mail updates on DPR’s Licensing Program activities.

DPR’s Licensing and Certification Program is responsible for examining and licensing qualified applicators, aircraft pilots, pest control dealer designated agents, and agricultural pest control advisers; and for certifying pesticide applicators who use or supervise the use of restricted pesticides. It also licenses businesses that sell or apply pesticides or use pest control methods/devices for hire (i.e., pest control business, maintenance gardener pest control business, pest control dealer, and pesticide broker).

Visit the local County Agricultural Commissioner for private applicator certificate information.
Visit the Structural Pest Control Board for structural pest control licensing information.
Visit the California Department of Public Health for vector control technician certification information.

What’s New in Licensing

• 2013 Exam schedule, PDF (43 kb)
• Workshops on Proposed CE Course Regulations, PDF (128 kb)
• UC IPM Train-the-Trainer Workshops for training pesticide safety trainers of pesticide handlers and fieldworkers

For more information, please contact:
Licensing and Certification Program
Telephone (916) 445-4038
E-mail: licensemail@cdpr.ca.gov