1.  The Director may refuse to issue a license as an applicator to any person who:

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 555.345

  • Control: means to cut, destroy or eradicate established noxious weed populations in order to prevent:

    (a) The spread, maturation and dispersal of any propagative part of the noxious weed; and

    (b) The reproduction and spread of the noxious weed. See Nevada Revised Statutes 555.005

  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Nevada Revised Statutes 555.005
  • Director: means the Director of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 555.005
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
  • Pest: means any form of animal or vegetable life detrimental to the crops, horticulture, livestock, public health, wildlife, quality of water and beneficial uses of land in this State, including, without limitation, any insect, snail, nematode, fungus, virus, bacterium, microorganism, mycoplasma, weed, parasitic plant or any other plant that is normally considered to be a pest of cultivated plants, uncultivated plants, agricultural commodities, horticultural products or nursery stock, or that the Director declares to be a pest. See Nevada Revised Statutes 555.005
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.

(a) Is a primary principal, location principal or principal or intends to act as a primary principal, location principal or principal for a pest control business; and

(b) Has been convicted of, or entered a plea of guilty, guilty but mentally ill or nolo contendere to, a category A or B felony or a category C, D or E felony if the conviction occurred or the plea was entered for the category C, D or E felony during the immediately preceding 10 years in any court of competent jurisdiction in the United States or any other country.

2.  In addition to any other requirements set forth in this chapter and except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, each applicant for a license as an applicator specified in paragraph (a) of subsection 1 shall submit with his or her application a complete set of the applicant’s fingerprints and written permission authorizing the Director to forward the fingerprints to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its report. The application must be accompanied by a fee in an amount that is equal to any fee charged by the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for processing the fingerprints of the applicant.

3.  In lieu of submitting a complete set of his or her fingerprints and written permission pursuant to subsection 2, an applicant may, in accordance with regulations adopted by the Department and upon the payment of any fee required by the Department pursuant to those regulations, submit any document or other information required by the Department to perform a background check of the applicant.

4.  A suspension or revocation of a license as an applicator pursuant to NRS 555.350 or any previous revocation or current suspension of such a license or an equivalent license in this or any other state, district or territory of the United States or any foreign country is grounds for refusal to issue a license as an applicator.