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2025 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 6 - PEST CONTROL OPERATIONS
CHAPTER 3 - Exemptions
Section 11531.

Universal Citation:
CA Food & Agri Code § 11531 (2025)
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11531. Except as provided in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 12001), this division does not apply to any person while engaged in any of the following:

(a) An activity that is defined as structural pest control and required to be licensed under Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 8500) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code.

(b) Preservative treatment of fabrics or structural materials.

(c) Sanitation services for collection, disposal, and treatment of wastewater, refuse, or sewage.

(d) Seed treatment that is incidental to the person’s regular business.

(e) Live capture and removal or exclusion of vertebrate pests, bees, or wasps without the use of pesticides. Vertebrate pests include, but are not limited to, bats, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, mice, rats, and pigeons. This section does not exempt a person from the California Endangered Species Act (Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 2050) of Division 3 of the Fish and Game Code).

(f) Pool cleaning services, unless the person is selling, applying, using, or distributing a restricted material.

(Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 60, Sec. 6. (AB 2113) Effective July 2, 2024.)

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