Free Arkansas Pesticide Applicator Practice Test Online

Correct answer: A. The State Plant Board, within the Plant Industries Division of the Arkansas Department of Agriculture

Correct. The Arkansas Pesticide Use and Application Act assigns pesticide applicator licensing, permitting, and enforcement to the State Plant Board, which operates within the Plant Industries Division of the Arkansas Department of Agriculture.

• B: DEQ handles environmental permitting programs such as water, air, and waste, not pesticide applicator licensing, which the Act assigns to the State Plant Board.
• C: The Health Department's Environmental Health Division handles food service and sanitation inspections, not pesticide applicator certification under this Act.
• D: Arkansas operates an EPA-approved state certification plan through the State Plant Board under 40 CFR Part 171; EPA does not administer applicator licensing directly in a state with an approved plan.

Correct answer: B. owned or rented by the applicator or the applicator's employer

Correct. § 20-20-203(4) defines a private applicator by reference to land owned or rented by the applicator or the applicator's employer, used to produce an agricultural commodity.

• A: A commercial applicator firm's lease arrangement is not the basis for private-applicator status; § 20-20-203(4) turns on the applicator's own or employer's ownership/rental interest in the land.
• C: USDA program enrollment is irrelevant to the statutory private-applicator definition, which turns on ownership or rental, not federal program participation.
• D: A dealer contract governs pesticide distribution under § 20-20-213, not the land-interest requirement that defines a private applicator under § 20-20-203(4).

Correct answer: C. is engaged in the business of, and uses or supervises the use of, a restricted-use pesticide or any other pesticide for any purpose on any land or property

Correct. § 20-20-203(5)(A) defines a commercial applicator as one engaged in the business of, and using or supervising the use of, restricted-use or other pesticides for any purpose on any land or property.

• A: Applying general-use pesticide on one's own land describes a private applicator's limited scope, not the business-engaged commercial applicator definition in § 20-20-203(5)(A).
• B: A CAT works under a commercial applicator's supervision but is licensed under separate Commercial Applicator Technician provisions, not the § 20-20-203(5)(A) commercial applicator definition itself.
• D: § 20-20-203(6) separately defines noncommercial applicator; the two categories are mutually exclusive under the Act's classification scheme.

Correct answer: D. firms, persons, or government agencies that use, supervise, or demonstrate the use of a restricted-use pesticide without qualifying as a private or commercial applicator

Correct. § 20-20-203(6) defines a noncommercial applicator as firms, persons, or government agencies that use, supervise, or demonstrate restricted-use pesticide application without qualifying as private or commercial applicators.

• A: A homeowner applying pesticide only to their own residential lawn typically falls outside the licensed-applicator categories altogether, not within the statutory noncommercial applicator class.
• B: License term (one-year versus five-year) is a private-applicator licensing detail under § 20-20-211, not a separate applicator category defined by § 20-20-203(6).
• C: A dealer distributes restricted-use pesticide under § 20-20-213 licensing, a distinct category from the applicator classifications in § 20-20-203.

Correct answer: A. $10 for a one-year license or $45 for a five-year license

Correct. § 20-20-211(c)(1) sets the private applicator license fee at $10 for a one-year license or $45 for a five-year license, depending on when the applicator last recertified.

• B: $35 is the per-category fee charged to commercial and noncommercial applicators under separate rules, not the private applicator fee structure in § 20-20-211(c)(1).
• C: $65 is the annual restricted-use pesticide dealer license fee, not the private applicator fee, and private applicators are not limited to a five-year-only option.
• D: Arkansas private applicator licenses are not lifetime certifications; they run on one-year or five-year terms requiring periodic recertification, not a single lifetime fee.