California Health and Safety Code 2052 – (a) Pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 106925) of …
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(a) Pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 106925) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 104, every district employee who handles, applies, or supervises the use of any pesticide for public health purposes shall be certified by the department as a vector control technician in at least one of the following categories commensurate with the assigned duties:
(1) Mosquito control.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 2052
- Control: means to prevent or reduce vectors. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
- Department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
- District: means any mosquito abatement and vector control district created pursuant to this chapter or any of its statutory predecessors. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
- Vector: means any animal capable of transmitting the causative agent of human disease or capable of producing human discomfort or injury, including, but not limited to, mosquitoes, flies, mites, ticks, other arthropods, and rodents and other vertebrates. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
(2) Terrestrial invertebrate vector control.
(3) Vertebrate vector control.
(b) The department may establish, by regulation, exemptions from the requirements of this section that the department deems reasonably necessary to further the purposes of this section.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 395, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 2003.)