California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 3 — Professions and Vocations Generally, Chapter 14 — Structural Pest Control Operators, Article 1 — General Provisions, Section 8504.2
“Control” means a pest population management system that utilizes techniques to reduce and maintain pest populations at levels below those causing economic or material injury, or to manipulate the populations to prevent causing such injury.
Notes
Defines “control” as a pest-population management system using techniques either to reduce and maintain pest populations below levels causing economic or material injury or to manipulate populations to prevent such injury. The definition ties control to population management aimed at avoiding economic or material harm rather than merely detecting pest presence.
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