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(A) Pest control is a service designed to improve, restore, or maintain a clean, sanitary, and safe living environment through the performance of tasks in the home that are beyond the consumer’s capability and the removal of pests posing a threat to the consumer’s health and welfare.
(B) Pest control services are provided only in cases where:
(1) Neither the individual, nor anyone else in the household, is capable of performing or financially providing for the services;
(2) No other relative, caregiver, community/volunteer agency, or third-party payer is capable of, or responsible for, their provision; and,
(3) In the case of rental property, the responsibilities of the landlord under the lease agreement have been examined prior to any authorization of service.
(C) Eligible providers of pest control service are ODA-certified long-term care consumer-directed individual providers and ODA-certified long-term care agency providers.
(D) A unit of pest control service is one job order, with the unit rate being the price quoted by a qualified provider and accepted by the consumer.
(E) An ODA-certified pest control service provider must:
(1) Maintain a consumer record that documents service delivery, indicates that service tasks were performed as specified in the job order, and is signed by the consumer or the consumer’s caregiver upon completion of the job order;
(2) Maintain a current and valid commercial pesticide applicator license and a pesticide application business license from the Ohio department of agriculture;
(3) Maintain, and furnish to the consumer and/or ODA’s designee, upon request, a list of the chemical(s) or substance(s) used for each job order;
(4) Comply with any applicable local codes or ordinances in the performance of each job order;
(5) Inform the consumer and ODA’s designee of any specific health or safety risks expected during the job project, and assist the case manager to coordinate times and dates of service to insure minimal risk of hazard to the consumer as applicable to each job;
(6) Furnish to the consumer and ODA’s designee a warranty covering workmanship and materials used for job orders;
(7) Furnish the consumer and/or ODA’s designee with a verbal estimate of the services cost, to be followed by a written price quote within seven days of the consumer’s initial request for services or within an alternative time period acceptable to the consumer; and,
(8) Not charge more than the amount of the original price quote submitted to, and approved by, the consumer and/or ODA’s designee.
Effective: 03/31/2006
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 10/15/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 173.02, 173.391
Rule Amplifies: 173.39, 173.391