Category 3a - Ornamental Pest Management
Category 3a includes: Commercial applicators (for hire, not for hire, and government employees) and businesses using pesticides (weed killers, insecticides, fungicides, etc.) on ornamental plantings (trees, shrubs, flowers) and related areas such as driveways, sidewalks, residential parking areas, landscape beds and fence lines.
This category does not include pesticide applications to turf areas such as lawns (Category 3b) or to landscape plantings for the control of pests such as mosquitos (Category 7a or Category 8).
Certification, Applications, Licensing, Insurance, Testing Information:
Policy Statements:
This category does not include pesticide applications to turf areas such as lawns (Category 3b) or to landscape plantings for the control of pests such as mosquitos (Category 7a or Category 8).
Certification, Applications, Licensing, Insurance, Testing Information:
- Obtaining a Business License
- Becoming a Certified and Licensed Applicator
- License Application Form (pdf, 257kb)
- Insurance Requirements
- Study Materials (Purdue Pesticide Programs)
- Exam Dates and Sign-up
- Exam Results
- CCH Requirements
- View a list of approved CCH programs
- Lawn & Landscape Priorities (pdf, 22kb)
- Reciprocity -- Out of State Businesses and Applicators
- Recordkeeping
- Worker Protection Standard (pdf, 188kb)
- Pesticide Use at Schools
- Child Care Facility Pest Control
Policy Statements:
- Interpretive Guidance 5-23-22: Licensing of Pesticide Business and RUP Dealer Locations (pdf, 169kb)
- 357 IAC 1-12: Indiana Pesticide Drift Rule (pdf, 14kb)