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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="16-3A-07" title_number="16" title_name="Real Estate Appraisers, Appraisal Management Companies, and Home Inspectors" subtitle_number="3A" subtitle_name="Licensing of Home Inspectors">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless a license is renewed for a 2–year term as provided in this section, the license expires on a staggered basis as determined by the Secretary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At least 1 month before a license expires, the Commission shall mail or electronically transmit to the licensee:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a renewal application form; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a notice that states:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the date on which the current license expires; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the amount of the renewal fee.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If an electronic transmission under paragraph (1) of this subsection is returned to the Commission as undeliverable, the Commission shall mail to the licensee, at the last known address of the licensee, the materials required under paragraph (1) of this subsection within 10 business days of the date the Commission received the notice that the electronic transmission was undeliverable.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before a license expires, the licensee may renew it for an additional 2–year term, if the licensee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>otherwise is entitled to be licensed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pays to the Commission a renewal fee set by the Commission;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>submits a renewal application on the form that the Commission provides; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>submits proof of compliance with the insurance requirement of § 16–4A–04 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Commission shall renew the license of and issue a license to each licensee who meets the requirements of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commission shall adopt regulations to require a demonstration of continuing professional competency of up to 30 educational hours for a licensee as a condition of renewal of a license under this section in accordance with paragraphs (2) through (6) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Continuing professional competency requirements do not apply to the first renewal of a license.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If a license expires on or before September 30, 2013, a licensee is not required to fulfill the continuing professional competency requirements.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>If a license expires between October 1, 2013, and September 30, 2014, a licensee is required to fulfill 50% of the continuing professional competency requirements as provided in the regulations adopted by the Commission under this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>If a license expires on or after October 1, 2014, a licensee is required to fulfill the full continuing professional competency requirements as provided in the regulations adopted by the Commission under this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Educational hours from a continuing professional competency course satisfy the requirement of paragraph (1) of this subsection if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the course is offered by:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the American Society of Home Inspectors;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the National Association of Home Inspectors; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>any other provider approved by the Commission; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Commission determines that the course increases the licensee’s knowledge of the provision of home inspection services, including one or more components of an existing residential building.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
