(a) Licenses issued to operators or field representatives shall be limited to the branch or branches of pest control for which the applicant has qualified by application and examination. For the purpose of delimiting the type and character of work authorized by the various branch licenses hereinafter set forth, the practice of pest control is classified into the following branches:

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 460J-12

  • Board: means the pest control board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 460J-1
  • Fumigation: means the use of any substance or substances that emit or liberate gases, fumes, or vapors which may be used for the destruction or control of insects, vermin, rodents, or other pests, which, in the opinion of the board, may be lethal, poisonous, noxious, or dangerous to human life. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 460J-1
  • Household pests: means those pests other than wood-destroying pests which invade households and other structures, including, but not limited to, rodents, vermin, insects, and birds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 460J-1
  • Pest control: means , with respect to wood-destroying pests, or other pests which may invade households or other structures, including railroad cars, ships, docks, trucks, airplanes, or the contents thereof, the engaging in, offering to engage in, advertising for, soliciting, or performing the following for hire:

    (1) Identifying pests or infestations;

    (2) Making an inspection for the purpose of identifying or attempting to identify infestations of household or other structures by pests;

    (3) Making inspection reports, recommendations, estimates, and bids, whether oral or written, with respect to infestations; or

    (4) Making contracts, or submitting bids for, or the use of avicides, insecticides, pesticides, rodenticides, fumigants, or allied chemicals or substances, or mechanical devices, for the purpose of eliminating, exterminating, controlling, or preventing infestations of pests or organisms. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 460J-1

(1) Branch 1. Fumigation. The practice relating to the control of household and wood-destroying pests by fumigation with poisonous or lethal gases.
(2) Branch 2. General Pest. The practice relating to the control of household pests, other than termites, excluding fumigation with poisonous or lethal gases.
(3) Branch 3. Termite. The practice relating to the control of wood-destroying pests by the use of insecticides and corrections, excluding fumigation with poisonous or lethal gases.

The board may issue a license for a combination of two or more branches for which an applicant qualifies under this chapter, and such combination license shall be considered one license for the purpose of determining the fee to be charged under section 460J-14.

(b) Unless otherwise authorized by the board, all written examinations shall be in ink in books supplied by the board. All examination papers shall be kept for a period of one year, upon the expiration of which such papers may be destroyed on order of the board. Each applicant for license shall be designated by a number instead of by name and the identity thereof shall not be disclosed until the examination papers are graded. No person shall be admitted to the examination room except the examining personnel and the applicants for license.
(c) The board shall make rules for the purpose of securing fair, impartial, and proper examinations.
(d) Licensees of any branch may be licensed in other branches upon complying with the requirements for qualification and by examination in such other branches. No failure of the licensee to pass examination in such other branches shall have any effect on existing licenses.
(e) The examinations shall be in each of the subjects specified in the branch or branches relating to the respective applications. A license according to such applications shall be granted to any applicant who scores a passing grade on the examination in each of the subjects of such branch or branches.

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