Section 13186 Of Article 17. Healthy Schools Act Of 2000 From California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 7. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 17.
13186
. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the Department
of Pesticide Regulation, pursuant to Section 12979 of the Food and
Agricultural Code and Sections 6624 and 6627 of Title 3 of the
California Code of Regulations, requires persons engaged for hire in
the business of pest control to maintain records of pesticide use and
report a summary of that pesticide use to the county agricultural
commissioner or director. The Legislature further finds and declares
that it is in the interest of the state, in implementing a school
integrated pest management program pursuant to this article, to
collect specified information on the use of pesticides at
schoolsites.
(b) The Department of Pesticide Regulation shall prepare a school
pesticide use form to be used by licensed and certified pest control
operators when they apply any pesticides at a schoolsite. The form
shall include, for each application at a schoolsite, the name and
address of the schoolsite, date and location of application,
pesticide product name, and the quantity of pesticide used. Nothing
in this section shall change any existing applicable pesticide use
reporting requirements.
(c) Persons who are required to submit pesticide use records to
the county agricultural commissioner or director shall complete and
submit to the director the school pesticide use forms established
pursuant to this section. The forms shall be submitted annually and
may be submitted more often at the discretion of the pest control
operator maintaining the forms. Child day care facilities, excluding
family day care homes, as defined in Section 1596.78 of the Health
and Safety Code, which are subject to the Healthy Schools Act of
2000, shall inform contractors hired to apply pesticides at the
schoolsite that the facility must comply with the Healthy Schools Act
of 2000.
(d) Any person who is hired to apply pesticides at a child day
care facility, excluding family day care homes, as defined in Section
1596.78 of the Health and Safety Code, shall provide that facility's
school designee with all of the following information at least 120
hours in advance of any pesticide application, except in the case of
an emergency condition, as defined in Section 17609 of the Education
Code:
(1) The pesticide product name.
(2) The pesticide manufacturer's name.
(3) The United States Environmental Protection Agency's product
registration number.
(4) The active ingredient or ingredients in the pesticide product.
(5) The areas of application.
(6) The intended date of application.
(7) The reason for the pesticide application.
(e) If a person hired to apply pesticides contracts directly with
the property owner or his or her agent rather than directly with the
child day care facility, excluding family day care homes, as defined
in Section 1596.78 of the Health and Safety Code, the property owner
or his or her agent must notify the contractor that a child day care
facility is being operated on the property at which the pesticides
are to be applied to enable the contractor to comply with subdivision
(d).