Structural pest control licensing
Is your exterminator licensed in Alabama?
National directories list Alabama as having no online lookup. That is out of date — AGI now runs a Pesticide Applicator Search, linked here, and also publishes an applicator search on the USAPlants platform at usaplants.tnatc.org/al/, the same system Pennsylvania, Montana, West Virginia and Indiana use. Try both. Worth pairing with the Alabama law page for an uncomfortable contrast: Alabama regulates bed bugs in HOTELS, requiring an infested guest room to be closed until abated, but has no bed bug provision for tenants at all — and § 35-9A-422 lets a landlord give you 7 days’ notice, do the work themselves and bill it to you as rent. Verifying who they hired, and that they were licensed, matters more here than in most states.
- Who regulates it
- AGI
- Verification
- Online
- Check before paying
- The business license
The regulator
The credential to look for
Open the official Alabama search →
Renting in Alabama? Before you pay for treatment, check whether your landlord is legally responsible for the cost. Alabama bed bug law →
What to verify, in order
The business license, not just the technician
Most states license the company and certify the individual separately. A certified technician working for an unlicensed business is still an unlicensed job.
The category or phase covers structural work
Licenses are issued by category. An applicator certified for turf and ornamental has no business in your bedroom.
Status is active, not lapsed
Some state databases exclude cancelled licenses from results entirely, so a revoked company returns the same empty result as a typo. If you get nothing, phone the agency before assuming you mistyped.
Complaint and enforcement history
Where a state publishes disciplinary actions they are usually on the board site rather than inside the license search.
Link last confirmed: . State license portals migrate often and licenses lapse daily — treat anything older than a few months as a starting point, not an answer.
Always confirm on the state's own site. This page points at the official database; it does not mirror or cache license records. Status changes daily and only the issuing agency is authoritative.