Information for Landscape & Turf Professionals

If you own a landscaping business, work for a golf course, or if you are a government employee and get paid to apply herbicides, insecticides, or other pesticides to turf or ornamental trees and shrubs on someone else’s property, you are required to be licensed.  Even if you "only spray a little Round-Up®," the laws passed in 2006 require you to be licensed.

If you only perform lawn manicuring services such as mowing, trimming, hedge cutting, raking, or leaf blowing, you do not have to be licensed.  In fact, if you only apply pesticides every now and then, you may want to consider dropping this service from your business.

Explanation of Licensing Requirements (23kb, pdf)
DPR Policy Statement 1006-01, Sections 27-1070 and 1085L of the Rules & Regulations for the Enforcement of the SC Pesticide Control Act (10kb, pdf)
Reciprocal Licensing
Clemson Extension Pesticide Information Program
Clemson University Home & Garden Information Center (HGIC)
Clemson University Entomology
DPR Territory Map (231kb, pdf)
Clemson University Plant Problem Clinic
Information Bulletins
Landscape Pesticide Application Equipment:  Calibrating Liquid Sprayers (3.70MB, pdf)
Landscape Pesticide Application Equipment:  Calibrating Granular Spreaders  (2.0MB, pdf)
Rules & Regulations for the Enforcement of the SC Pesticide Control Act (315kb, pdf)
Applicator Recertification Credits 
South Carolina Landscape & Turfgrass Association 
 
Renew Your License
Department of Pesticide Regulation Enforcement Matrix (38kb, pdf)
 

Exam Information for SC Applicator's License

Pre-Registration and Fee Information

Examinees must prepay and pre-register no less than two weeks prior to the exam session. You will not be allowed to take the exam without pre-registering.  Personnel at exam sessions will not accept payment. If you have already passed the core exam in a previous exam session, you may take additional category exams at the session you have pre-registered for.

Make your check or money order payable to Clemson University and mail to:

Exam Registration
Department of Pesticide Regulation
511 Westinghouse RoadPendleton, SC 29670

Do not send cash. Cash will not be accepted.

Exam fees:
Core Exam $75.00
Category Exam $25.00 (each time an exam is taken)
Categories 12A, 12B, and 12D $50.00
Dealer Exam $25.00

Bona fide students may pay a reduced fee of $25.00 with proof of current student status.



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