Pest control: registration fees.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide information about the potential impact of increased fees on different sizes of pest control businesses.

Pest Control Registration Fees

AB-2380 increases the maximum registration fees for pest control businesses, aircraft pilots, advisers, and structural pest control operators from $25 to $75.

What This Bill Does

• Increases the highest fee a county can charge for registering a pest control business from $25 to $75.
• Removes limits on how much counties can charge pest control aircraft pilots and advisers who register in person or add additional registrations.
• Eliminates the limit of $10 that counties can charge structural pest control operators and companies when they first register.
• Gets rid of the $25 limit for registration fees required before conducting fumigations, and also removes the $10 limit for adding new operators during the year.

Who It Names or Affects

• County boards of supervisors who set pest control business registration fees.
• Pest control businesses, aircraft pilots, advisers, and structural pest control operators who need to register with counties.

Terms To Know

Registration fee

Money paid by a person or company to the county when they want to start working as a pest control business or get additional registrations.

Structural pest control operator

A professional who treats buildings for pests like termites and rodents.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how the increased fees will be used.
• There are no details on when or how these changes would start.

Official Summary Text

AB 2380, as introduced, Papan.
Pest control: registration fees.
Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of any county to establish reasonable fees for the registration of any person advertising, soliciting, or operating as a pest control business and limits the registration fee of certain pest control businesses to the amount necessary to cover the costs of registration, not to exceed $25.
This bill would raise the maximum registration fee amount from $25 to $75.
Existing law authorizes county boards of supervisors to set fees for registration to cover the cost of registering pest control aircraft pilots and pest control advisers, and limits those fees to no more than $10 per year for a pilot who registers in person in the county in which they intend to work and for an adviser who registers in person in the county listed in the adviser’s address on a
specified license or the county of occupational choice, and no more than $5 per year for a pilot or adviser already registered in a county to register in an additional county, as provided.
This bill would repeal those annual registration fee limits of $10 and $5.
Existing law requires certain licensed structural pest control operator qualifying managers and structural pest control board registered companies to register with the county agricultural commissioner before operating a structural pest control business in the county. Existing law authorizes county boards of supervisors to require a registration fee not to exceed the actual cost of processing the registration or $10, whichever is less.
This bill would repeal that registration fee limit of $10.
Existing law prohibits certain licensed structural pest controller licensees, as
provided, from conducting fumigations in any county unless that person has also registered for the current calendar year with the county agricultural commissioner in that county, as provided. Existing law requires the county boards of supervisors to set that registration fee and for that fee not to exceed the cost of processing the registration or $25, whichever is less. Existing law authorizes structural pest control operators and field representatives to be added during the year and limits the fee for adding those operators and field representatives to the actual cost of processing the registration or $10, whichever is less.
This bill would repeal those annual registration fee limits of $25 and $10.

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