Sec. 334.04. - License requirements.
(a) Company applications; approval. All applications hereunder shall be made to the license inspector, who, after all other requirements of this chapter have been met, shall refer said applications to the public health services manager. No license shall be issued by the inspector without the written approval of the public health services manager.
Identification cards and such other procedural matters as may be necessary shall be established by the public health services manager.
(b) Licensed pest control company. In order to obtain and retain such a license, there shall be at least one (1) person, either an owner or operator in the company, who holds a master pest control operator's license. No person may engage in pest control work unless properly licensed. Every applicant wishing to be licensed must have a comparable license issued by the Minnesota State Department of Agriculture,
(c) Exclusion. Employees of the City of Saint Paul or any state or federal employee, or employees of the metropolitan mosquito control district, need not be licensed by the City of Saint Paul when engaged in their official employment, but must be properly licensed by the Minnesota State Department of Agriculture to use any restricted use pesticides.
(d) Insurance. No such license shall be issued until and unless the applicant shall have obtained a policy of liability insurance of the character hereinafter described, nor until and unless evidence of such insurance shall have been approved as to form by the city attorney and filed with the city. Said policy shall be issued by an insurance company authorized by the laws of the State of Minnesota to do business in this state. Such policy of insurance shall be in limits of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for any one (1) person injured or killed in any one (1) accident, and two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) for any one (1) accident for two (2) or more persons injured or killed in any one (1) accident, irrespective of the number of persons injured or killed, and in limits of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for damage to or destruction of property in any one (1) accident, for the uses and purposes hereinafter set forth. Said policy shall provide for the payment of any judgment or judgments obtained against said applicant by any person or persons who shall or may suffer or sustain injuries by reason of any unlawful or negligent act or omission of the applicant, or his agents, servants or employees, in connection with any extermination done or effected by said applicant within the City of Saint Paul, and for the payment of any judgment or judgments obtained against said applicant by the personal representatives of any person or persons killed by reason of any unlawful or negligent act or omission of the applicant, or his agents, servants or employees, in connection with any extermination done or effected by said applicant within the City of Saint Paul. Such policy shall contain a condition that it cannot be cancelled after loss, and also a condition that it cannot be cancelled without thirty (30) days' written notice as provided in section 8.02 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code. In case of cancellation of such policy, the license which may have been issued shall, by virtue of such cancellation, become inoperative and void as of the date when such cancellation becomes effective; provided, nevertheless, that if another policy, in like sum and similarly conditioned, shall, within thirty (30) days thereafter, be obtained and evidence of such insurance approved and filed in lieu of said cancelled policy, said license shall be reinstated unless said license shall be revoked or suspended for other cause.
