Section 2805 Of Article 1. Definitions And General Provisions From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 8. >> Article 1.
2805
. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), every
pest abatement district employee who handles, applies, or supervises
the use of any pesticide for public health purposes, shall be
certified by the state department as a vector control technician in
at least one of the following categories commensurate with assigned
duties:
(1) Mosquito control.
(2) Terrestrial invertebrate vector control.
(3) Vertebrate vector control.
(b) The state department may establish by regulation exemptions
from the requirements of this section that are deemed reasonably
necessary to further the purposes of this section.
(c) The state department shall establish by regulation minimum
standards for continuing education for any government agency employee
certified under Section 116110 and regulations adopted pursuant
thereto, who handles, applies, or supervises the use of any pesticide
for public health purposes.
(d) An official record of the completed continuing education units
shall be maintained by the state department. If a certified
technician fails to meet the requirements set forth under subdivision
(c), the state department shall suspend the technician's certificate
or certificates and immediately notify the technician and the
employing district. The state department shall establish by
regulation procedures for reinstating a suspended certificate.
(e) The state department shall charge and collect a nonreturnable
renewal fee of one hundred twenty dollars ($120) to be paid by each
continuing education certificant on or before the first day of July,
or on any other date that is determined by the state department. Each
person employed on September 29, 1996, in a position that requires
certification shall first pay the annual fee the first day of the
first July following that date. All new certificants shall first pay
the annual fee the first day of the first July following their
certification.
(f) The state department shall collect and account for all money
received pursuant to this section and shall deposit it in the
Vectorborne Disease Account provided for in Section 116112.
Notwithstanding Section 116112, fees deposited in the Vectorborne
Disease Account pursuant to this section shall be available for
expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement this
section.
(g) Fees collected pursuant to this section shall be subject to
the annual fee increase provisions of Section 100425.