Structural pest control licensing
Is your exterminator licensed in North Dakota?
USE THE NDSU SEARCH ENGINE linked here rather than the department site — North Dakota State University runs the Pesticide Applicator Search Engine, and it is one of the most capable in the country. Search by first name, last name, full name or ID number and it returns name, city, ID, STATUS and every certification held. It will also build filtered lists by certification type, expiration year range, CATEGORY and county of residence — so you can list every applicator certified for structural work in your county rather than guessing at company names. Note that North Dakota is the fourth state to run pesticide certification through a land-grant university, after Clemson, Purdue and New Mexico State. The Pesticide and Fertilizer Division at the state department remains the regulator. The agency and program below are confirmed; verify by phone or email, and if you find a searchable register, add the URL here. The Pesticide and Fertilizer Division is the right office within the department. Pair with the North Dakota law page, which is unusually favourable: the repair-and-deduct remedy at § 47-16-13 carries NO dollar cap in the statute, so an infestation treatment is one of the few places that remedy is actually usable — which makes verifying the operator you hire genuinely worth the phone call, since you will be presenting that invoice to your landlord.
- Who regulates it
- NDDA
- Verification
- Online
- Check before paying
- The business license
The regulator
The credential to look for
Open the official North Dakota 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.