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Sanitary Pest Control Occupation Regulation Law, 5776-2016

חוק הסדרת העיסוק בהדברה תברואית, תשע"ו-2016

Published: 2016-02-16Consolidated Hebrew text as of 2025-11-12 · Last amended 2023-11-19✓ Amendment status checked against the Knesset legislation record on 2026-09-17

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Part 1: Invertebrates

1.§

Insects causing a nuisance — disease transmitters and blood suckers

(a)the house fly;

(b)sandflies;

(c)blood-sucking mosquitoes;

(d)fleas — when in a settlement area;

(e)the bed bug — when in a building;

(f)ticks and mites — when in a settlement area.

2.§

Insects Causing a Hazard – Stinging and Venomous

(a)the dwarf honey bee;

(b)fire ants;

(c)army ants;

(d)the Oriental hornet, the German wasp and the potter wasp – when within a settlement area;

(e)the pine processionary moth.

3.§

Pests Causing Discomfort – Insects

(a)flesh flies, such as the bluebottle – when within a settlement area;

(b)filth flies, such as the lesser house fly – when within a settlement area;

(c)ants – when inside a structure;

(d)psocids – when inside a structure;

(e)the American cockroach, the German cockroach and the brown-banded cockroach – when inside a structure.

4.§

Other Pests Causing Discomfort

(a)the giant African snail.

5.§

Insects Causing a Nuisance – Pests Damaging Property

(a)beetles damaging property, such as wood, paper, fabric and leather beetles – when inside a structure;

(b)termites – when within a settlement area;

(c)clothes moths – when inside a structure.

6.§

Insects Causing a Nuisance – Pests Damaging Processed Food Products

(a)mites and psocids – when inside a structure and when accompanying other pests;

(b)stored-product beetles – when inside a structure;

(c)food moths – when inside a structure.

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Part 2: Vertebrates Causing a Hazard or Nuisance

7.§

Rodents Causing a Hazard or Nuisance

(a)the brown rat and the black rat – when within a settlement area;

(b)the house mouse – when within a settlement area.

8.§

Other Vertebrates Causing a Hazard or Nuisance

(a)The house sparrow – when within a locality;

(b)The rock pigeon – when within a locality;

(c)The Indian house crow and the hooded crow – when within a locality.

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Part 3: Pests under Special Conditions

9.§

Insects

(a)Venomous or stinging arthropods such as scorpions, spiders and centipedes – when they are in a residential building and the grounds adjacent thereto or when they appear in an exceptional and mass occurrence in open areas within a locality;

(b)The honey bee – when a swarm thereof establishes itself in a structure and it is not possible to take measures for its removal pursuant to another law;

(c)A population of arthropods of the same species such as woodlice, millipedes, bedbugs or the brown stink bug – when it appears in an exceptional and mass occurrence within a locality, in a place where it actually causes a nuisance.

10.§

Rodents

(a)A population of rodents of the species Tristram's jird, vole, mole rat or coypu – when it appears within a locality.

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Second Schedule (Section 4)

1.§

Insects

(a)the honey bee;

(b)termites;

(c)the bed bug;

(d)the pine processionary moth.

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