14B NCAC 16 .1205          RECORDING AND REPORTING CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

(a)  Each licensee shall be responsible for recording and reporting continuing education credits to the Board at the time of license renewal. For each course taken such report shall include a certificate of course completion that is signed by at least one course instructor, states the name of the licensee who completed the course, the date of course completion, and the number of hours taken by the licensee. Credit shall not be given if a certificate of course completion is dated more than two years before the license renewal date. Each course instructor shall be required to maintain a course roster and shall verify the identity of each participant by a government issued photo identification, such as a driver's license. The roster shall be delivered to the Board's office within two weeks of the completion date of the course.

(b)  All applications for renewal of a license shall have continuing education certificate(s) of course completion attached verifying completion of the required number of credit hours. If an applicant is filing an application designated as "new" and the applicant has been licensed for any period of time within the previous two years, the applicant shall attach continuing education certificate(s) of course completion verifying completion of the required number of credit hours. An applicant shall not be required to submit a continuing education certificate of course completion if the applicant is filing an application designated as a "transfer" or "duplicate" and if the applicant has a current license issued by the Board.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 74C-5; 74C-22;

Eff. February 1, 2010;

Transferred and Recodified from 12 NCAC 07D .1305 Eff. July 1, 2015;

Readopted Eff. July 1, 2020.