Ike O’Hanlon helped shape the 1955 North Carolina Structural Pest Control Commission. Working alongside Bill McClellan, Dr. Clyde Smith and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, the team developed minimum standards for termite control which later became part of the Structural Pest Control Act. In addition, he was one of two industry representatives appointed to the Structural Pest Control Commission and served as a state representative in the General Assembly. In 1965, he served on a North Carolina Pest Control Association committee to review the pest control law and provide input for revision, and he served on the 1967 Structural Pest Control Committee.