Structural pest control licensing
Is your exterminator licensed in Georgia?
Go straight to the structural search — it looks up a company by category and location, by name, or by license number, and separately looks up a Certified Operator by last name or certification. Georgia licenses through a Structural Pest Control Commission within the Department of Agriculture, with two credentials that matter: Certified Pest Control Operator and Registered Technician. Categories are Household Pest Control, WDO/Termite and Fumigation — BED BUGS ARE HOUSEHOLD PEST CONTROL, so a termite-only credential does not cover your job. Beware the general license page: Georgia splits its search three ways and the default is the wrong one for bed bugs. The general search covers every GDA license EXCEPT applicators and pest control employees; a second covers commercial and private applicators; a third covers structural pest companies, employees and operators. Use the third. Searching the general database and finding nothing tells you nothing at all.
- Who regulates it
- GDA
- Verification
- Online
- Check before paying
- The business license
The regulator
The credential to look for
Open the official Georgia search →
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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.