# California requires maintenance gardeners who apply pesticides for hire to hold a pest control business licence with a certified qualified person at each location

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20240701-landscaper-8
Date: 2024-07-01 · Stage: Constraint
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## Scope

California, United States. The regulator's licensing packet says a maintenance gardener who occasionally engages in pest control in support of a gardening business for hire must hold a Maintenance Gardener Pest Control Business licence, and that a qualified person is someone in a supervisory position holding a valid Qualified Applicator Certificate or Licence in the landscape-maintenance category, with at least one qualified person at each business location at all times, citing Food and Agricultural Code section 11704. The packet is revision 7/24; it says nothing about drone or robotic application.

## Source

- California Department of Pesticide Regulation — Maintenance Gardener Pest Control Business License Packet, Licensing Requirements (Rev. 7/24) — https://www.cdpr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/mgardener.pdf (primary source)

## What this means

In California, applying pesticides in landscape work stays under a certified person's responsibility.

## What it does not show yet

One state's licensing rule, silent on drone or robotic application.

## How to verify it yourself

Open California DPR's Maintenance Gardener Pest Control Business License Packet and find "at least one qualified person at each business location".


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