Structural pest control licensing
Is your exterminator licensed in New Mexico?
National directories still list New Mexico as having no online lookup. That is out of date — NMDA runs one through USAPlants, the same platform as Pennsylvania, Montana, West Virginia, Indiana, Alabama and Missouri. Pick your Program Type — Commercial Applicators, Technicians, Public Applicators or Pesticide Dealers — then Search to see the first 500 records, or Export to Excel for the complete list, which is the better route if you want to scan a whole category. Turn your pop-up blocker off first or the export will silently fail. Note the regulator sits at NMSU rather than in a state office building, which is the third land-grant university running pesticide regulation, after Clemson in South Carolina and the State Chemist at Purdue in Indiana. Pair with the New Mexico law page — the abatement remedy there is one of the strongest anywhere, and if your rent is subsidized it is calculated on the full rent rather than your share.
- Who regulates it
- NMDA / USAPlants
- Verification
- Online
- Check before paying
- The business license
The regulator
The credential to look for
Open the official New Mexico 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.