Section 50. Business license fee

Any pesticide business that distributes, stores, sells, recommends for use, mixes, or applies pesticides shall pay a nonrefundable annual pesticide business licensing fee of $50 for each location or outlet that he or it operates. All business licenses will expire at midnight on March 3l of each year unless suspended or revoked for cause. If a business license is not suspended or revoked for cause, it will be renewed upon payment of the annual fee. If any person operating as a pesticide business fails to apply for renewal of a pesticide business license by COB March 31 the applicant, as a condition of renewal, shall pay a late license fee of 20% of the licensing fee in addition to that fee. Merchants of limited quantities of nonrestricted use pesticides including grocery stores, convenience stores, drug stores, veterinarians and other businesses who sell pesticides primarily for limited household use shall be exempt from the business license requirement.

Historical Notes

Former 2VAC20-30-50, derived from VR115-04-20 § 2.4, eff. July 13, 1990; amended, Volume 10, Issue 24, eff. September 21, 1994; renumbered as 2VAC5-675-50, Virginia Register Volume 29, Issue 01, eff. October 10, 2012.

Statutory Authority

§ 3.2-3906 of the Code of Virginia.