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The federal model food code that states adopt. Section 6-501.111 is an explicit four-part pest control requirement, one part rated Priority Foundation. ICE's detention food service standard points to it directly.

The general-industry sanitation standard. Paragraph (a)(5) requires an enclosed workplace to be built and kept so as to prevent the entry and harborage of vermin, and a continuing extermination program where vermin are detected.

The Bureau of Prisons' occupational safety policy, issued June 22, 2026. Section 47 requires every institution to keep a written pest control plan, inspect the whole institution monthly, log every pesticide application, and keep both records for three years.

The Bureau of Prisons' current food service policy, issued May 7, 2026. Its rodent and insect control section tracks the FDA Food Code's four-part pest paragraph and adds one step: findings of pests are reported to the institution's Safety Department.

ICE's facility-wide pest provision for non-dedicated facilities, including county jails that hold ICE detainees. Pests, vermin, and the conditions that sustain them are to be controlled and eliminated, and ICE is to be notified immediately of any insect or rodent infestation.

ICE's food service standard. It assigns pest control in the food service department to the facility, requires receiving inspection for pest infestation, prohibits pest harborage in storage, and points food preparation to the FDA Food Code.

The most prescriptive federal detention pest provision on the record: the facility administrator shall contract with licensed pest-control professionals for monthly inspections, with a preventive spraying program and callback services.

ICE's performance-based food service standard. It names the Food Service Administrator as responsible for kitchen pest control, including contracting an outside exterminator as necessary, and requires air curtains or comparable devices on outside doors where food is prepared, stored or served.

The Marshals Service's performance standards for detention contracts. Standard F.2.4 requires that vermin and pests be controlled through monthly inspections and treatment by a qualified pest control technician, alongside weekly, monthly, and annual sanitation inspections.

Arkansas's detention standards reach pests only through people: detainees are checked for lice or other pests at intake and lice-infested detainees are deloused by Department of Health methods. No section of Part 50 sets a facility pest control, extermination, or licensed-applicator requirement.

California's jail standards treat vermin as a medical and clothing problem: §1212 requires a physician's plan for vermin-infested people and §1264 covers clothing. No Title 15 section requires facility pest control; kitchens must meet the Retail Food Code, which requires premises free of vermin.

Illinois requires a continuous and effective program of insect and rodent control and extermination, established and documented; frequent inspection and immediate control for body pests; and exterior openings protected, with screening no coarser than 16 mesh.

Indiana requires every county jail to be inspected weekly for evidence of insects and rodents, to obtain licensed extermination services as often as necessary to eliminate them, and to remove inmates when spraying or fogging cannot properly be done with them present.

Iowa sets an outcome standard: the jail is maintained in a pest-free condition. Anyone spraying chemicals must be certified by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, and prisoners and staff must not be directly exposed.

Kentucky puts the duty on the jailer or jail administrator: provide for the control of vermin and pests. The same regulation requires a written preventative maintenance plan with cleaning and inspection schedules. The same sentence appears in the rules for life safety jails and restricted custody centers.

Maryland requires each adult detention center's written housekeeping policy to provide for quarterly vermin and pest control services, alongside weekly sanitation inspections. The Commission's audit worksheet looks for a contract with a licensed exterminator.

Massachusetts requires county correctional facilities to govern vermin and pest control by written policy and to exterminate existing pests safely, by a person with appropriate licensing. The public health standards add certified or licensed application and 16-mesh screens.

Michigan requires every jail and lockup to keep a written plan for the control of vermin and pests that includes, at a minimum, monthly inspections by a trained person the facility administrator designates. No licensed provider is required.

Minnesota's jail rule requires a written plan for the control and elimination of vermin and pests. It sets no frequency and names no provider. A revision of chapter 2911 is in its final steps and leaves this part unchanged in the drafts.

Nevada's State Board of Health rule for jails. The operator must take effective measures to eliminate rodents, flies, cockroaches and other vermin, keep confinement premises free of vermin at all times, and pest-proof openings, down to screen mesh size. Health authority inspection findings must be written up and given to the institution.

New Jersey requires licensed pest control professionals at least once a month in every adult county correctional facility, and requires integrated pest management practices to control the use of toxic pesticides. It is one of two binding state jail rules on this reference that fix both a frequency and a licensed provider.

New York's Department of Health has not adopted the FDA Food Code. Food service in New York, including a county jail kitchen, follows the State Sanitary Code, 10 NYCRR Subpart 14-1. Its insect and rodent rule requires premises free of insects, rodents, harborage and breeding conditions, protected openings, and sanitation rather than pesticides; other sections bar spraying while food is exposed and unprotected bait stations.

New York's grievance rule for local correctional facilities. A grievance is filed within five days, the grievance coordinator issues a written determination within five business days, appeals go to the chief administrative officer and then the Commission's Citizens' Policy and Complaint Review Council, and a grievance with merit brings relief for all others similarly situated. For a pest grievance, the service records are the pertinent documents.

New York requires each local correctional facility to develop and implement procedures designed to eliminate insect and rodent infestation, lets the chief administrative officer limit food kept in cells, and requires pesticides to be used as the manufacturer recommends and the law allows.

North Carolina's jail standards adopt the Commission for Public Health's sanitation rules. Rule .1515 requires effective measures to keep flies, rodents and other vermin out and prevent their breeding, 16-mesh screening or equivalent, and only EPA- and state-registered pesticides.

Ohio requires monthly sanitation, vermin, and safety inspections of all areas of a full service jail by a designated trained staff person, and an annual inspection by local or state health authorities.

Oklahoma requires that conditions conducive to insects, rodents or other vermin be eliminated immediately, and that licensed pest control professionals be contracted to perform pest control on a schedule the facility sets in its own policy.

Pennsylvania requires county prisons to address vermin and pests every month through a qualified person, to document every pest or vermin treatment applied, and to run a documented monthly sanitation inspection of all prison areas. The Department lists this requirement as essential.

The newest state jail standard on this reference. Every Colorado county jail must comply beginning July 1, 2026, and the standard requires a policy to mitigate and respond to pest and vermin control issues. The committee's best-practice note adds inspections at least quarterly by a local pest control business or a certified pest controller.

Tennessee requires local facilities to provide for control of vermin and pests and to remove inmates from treatment areas if there is a risk of illness. Facilities that do not meet all applicable standards are recommended for non-certification.

Texas's jail standards address vermin in construction: facilities must be built to protect against entrance and infestation. The operational sanitation rule requires a commission-approved cleaning plan but names no pest control service, frequency, or licensed provider.

Utah's food service sanitation rule. It incorporates the 2022 FDA Food Code, including the Section 6-501.111 pest control paragraph, and its list of exempt establishments does not include jails or prisons.

Utah’s pesticide applicator licensure rule. Its Category 7 definition names prisons expressly, and it sets the nine-element application record every commercial applicator must keep.

The Utah Department of Corrections' standards for secure facilities housing state inmates. Pest and vermin control is an item on the facility's required weekly inspection, and the food service area must be inspected by the health authority having jurisdiction at least once a year.

Virginia's jail standard names both the duty and the provider: the facility shall control vermin and pests and be serviced at least quarterly by a licensed pest control business or personnel certified by the state agriculture department.

Wisconsin requires jails to control vermin and pests with an effective, documented program, to label containers of poisonous compounds used on rodents or insects, and to store them locked away from food and out of inmates' reach.

New York's pesticide law, which 9 NYCRR 7015.2(e)(2) brings into the jail standards. Every commercial application requires a certified applicator; pest control businesses and agencies that apply pesticides, including counties, register with the Department of Environmental Conservation; the applicator gives the building owner the label information before each application; and every application is recorded and kept at least three years.

Oregon puts the pest requirement in statute. Every local correctional facility must have a comprehensive written policy on vermin and communicable disease control, the Department of Corrections inspects against the standards, and the Attorney General can enforce them.

Washington's statute requiring every city, town, and county that owns or operates an adult jail to adopt operating standards and to run the jail in accordance with them. It does not name pest control; it makes the standards a jail adopts, including any pest control policy among them, the ones it is run by.

Utah's records law lists a correctional facility's standards and the results of inspections assessing compliance with them as normally public, along with government contracts and records of a contractor's services. That reaches a jail's pest control contract, its service records, and its inspection results.

A county board of health regulation written for jails. It requires effective measures against rodents, flies, cockroaches, bedbugs, lice, and other insects, harborage-free premises, sealed exterior openings, label-only pesticide use, and an annual health department inspection.

Florida's model standards, which every county and municipal detention facility must adopt by statute, require facilities to be kept free of all insects and rodents with a scheduled vermin control program, sealed or screened openings, label-compliant pesticide use, and commercial licensed pest control where the jail has no certified operator of its own.

The Idaho Sheriffs' Association standard for county jails: a plan for the control of vermin and pests that includes monthly inspections, with any fumigation done by a licensed pest control professional. It is designated recommended (R), and the association inspects jails annually.

Montana's jail standard is a single outcome: vermin and pests are controlled. It names no frequency, provider, or record, which leaves each jail to decide what its file should show.

The most specific association jail standard on this reference. SS-06 calls for a written vermin and pest control plan with monthly inspection by a licensed exterminator, an extermination schedule, and documented inspection reports and treatment, and it lists pest control contracts among the process indicators.

The New York State Sheriffs' Association's corrections accreditation manual, as published on the association's website (June 1998). Standard 118 calls for written policy requiring monthly sanitation inspections with written reports to the jail administrator and the health authority; Standard 119 calls for a clean and sanitary kitchen, and its commentary says the area should be free of rodents and insects.

The sheriffs' association standards for Oregon jails. H-201 requires a cleaning and sanitation policy and plan whose listed tasks include vermin treatment as inspections show it is needed; H-108 covers handling vermin-infested clothing and bedding. Recorded by identifier only.

South Carolina requires every local detention facility to have a regularly scheduled program of pest and vermin control and extermination, to take effective measures to keep flies, rodents and other vermin out, and to protect openings with self-closing doors, closed windows, or 16-mesh or finer screening.

Washington's jail accreditation standard. WASPC standard 20.1 asks for policy or procedures governing pest control, and WASPC's current jail proofs list requires the agency policy and a copy of the service provider agreement.

The pest control policy in Lexipol's custody manual, which agencies adopt and publish as their own policy. Policy 805.3 commits the jail to a licensed pest control professional inspecting at least monthly; 805.4 and 805.5 cover documented treatment of infested inmates and secured storage of pest control compounds. Recorded by section.