Licensing

• Allows you to apply pesticides by aircraft. ​
• You must meet the following requirements to qualify for an aerial license:
• Hold a current and active Oregon commercial, public, or private applicator license. 
• Hold a valid FAA commercial airman's certificate for the type of aerial equipment that is being used. 
• Provide your current FAA medical certificate. 
• Provide documented proof of at least 50 hours of pesticide application flight time. ​
• Commercial applicators must be employed by a company with a commercial operator's license. 
  
• Applications may only be made under the categories listed on your commercial or public license. 
• Test required — An aerial exam is required for pesticide applications. 
  

• Allows you to use pesticides (general or restricted-use) on someone else's property if employed by a company with the commercial operator license.
  
• Allows you to use restricted-use pesticides on your own (or your employer's) non-agricultural land.
  
• Allows you to supervise a licensed pesticide trainee or apprentice.
  
• Allows you to tell someone how to use a restricted-use pesticide or which restricted-use pesticide will work best (limited to categories on your license).
  
• Tests required — Laws and safety and at least one category.
  

• Allows a business to use pesticides on someone else's property.
• For corporations, at least one employee must be licensed as a commercial pesticide applicator.
• For sole proprietors or partnerships, the owner or at least one partner must be licensed as a commercial pesticide applicator.
  
• Categories must match the type of pesticide work that will be done.
  
• The business must show proof of insurance for pesticide applications.
  
• This license cannot be issued to a public agency.
  
• Test required — None.
  

Consultant license

• Allows you to tell someone how to use a restricted-use pesticide or which restricted-use pesticide will work best.
• The demonstration and research option allows you to create demonstration plots or do research on pesticides.
• If you have a pesticide consultant license, you may obtain the private pesticide applicator license without passing the private pesticide applicator test.
  
• Test required — Consultant.
  

Dealer license 

• Allows a business to sell restricted-use pesticides to licensed pesticide users.
• Test required — None.

Private applicator license

• Allows you to use restricted-use pesticides on agricultural land, including farmland, ranches, forestland, nurseries, and orchards.
• Allows you to supervise a co-worker or employee applying a restricted-use pesticide.
• One license covers all agricultural uses (soil fumigation has additional requirements).
  
• Test required — Private pesticide applicator.
  

Public applicator license

• You must work for a state or federal agency, county, city, municipality, irrigation district, railroad, public utility, telephone company, school, or other public employer.
  
• Allows you to use restricted-use pesticides for your public employer.
  
• Allows you to use fuel or electric-powered sprayers or spreaders.
  
• Categories must match the type of pesticide work that will be done.
  
• Allows you to tell someone how to use restricted-use pesticide or which restricted-use pesticide will work best (limited to categories on your license).
  
• May supervise a licensed pesticide trainee or apprentice.
  
• Tests required — Laws and safety and at least one category.
  

Immediately supervised pesticide trainee license