Pesticide Safety Education Program - Licensing & Certification

• New Hampshire Pesticide Licensing Requirements:
  • Anyone using Restricted Use pesticides
    
  • Anyone applying any Restricted or General use pesticides (any pesticide) in the course of employment.
    
    A person using a General use pesticide on his or her own property is exempt.
  • Certification for Private and Commercial Applicators Brochure
    
    
• Types of Licenses
  • A private applicator is one who purchases and/or uses or supervises the use of a restricted-use pesticide on their own property or anyone else's property for the purpose of producing an Agricultural Commodity as long as they do it without direct compensation for their services.
    
    
  • A commercial applicator is any individual applying pesticides on a commercial basis, on the property of another. This license is required regardless of whether the applicator gets paid for the service and regardless of whether the pesticide would be classified as general use, including over the counter home owner type pesticides, or restricted use pesticides.
    
    
  • A commercial applicator “not for hire” is any applicator who applies pesticides to their own premises, or that of their immediate employees.
    
    
  • A pesticide dealer is any person representing himself, a firm, corporation or dealership who is engaged in the business of: distributing, selling, offering, or holding for sale: restricted use pesticides or prohibited-limited use pesticides.
    
    
• Recordkeeping Requirements
  • Daily Record Keeping: All private and commercial applicators must keep records of their use of restricted pesticides (RUP’s) for two years. These records must include the following information:
    
    
    1. Crop treated, site of treatment, address, and town
    2. Pesticide and formulation employed
    3. Dosage applied
    4. Method of application
    5. Date or dates of application
    6. Target organisms and
    7. The registrants or permittees of the division who participated
       
       
  • Annual Reporting of Pesticide Use: All records pertaining to the application of pesticides shall be made available to the division of Pesticide Control on an annual basis, for the period ending October 31, on or before December 1. These records must include the following information:
    
    
    1. Name of applicator and firm
    2. The year for which the report covers
    3. Location of the site of application
    4. The list of licenses or permittees whose use is included in the report
    5. Trade name of pesticide
    6. Amount of active ingredient in the concentrate
    7. EPA pesticide registration number
    8. Major crop or site treated
    9. Number or acres treated with each pesticide reported and
    10. Total amount of concentrated pesticide used.

Annual Report Examples:

• Private
• Commercial