# Business Regulation (GBR)

## Title 9A. Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors

### Subtitle 4. Miscellaneous Provisions

#### Section 9A-403

(a) Each individual whom the State, a county, or a local government appoints or employs as a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration inspector shall:

  (1) each year attend a continuing education course that the Board or, with the approval of the Board, a county or local government conducts; and

  (2) meet minimum standards that are:

    (i) established by the Board; and

    (ii) administered:

      (1) for a county or local government inspector, by the county or local government that appoints or employs the inspectors; and

      (2) for a State inspector by the State.

(b) An individual may not have any financial interest in any business that provides heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, or refrigeration services while employed by the State, a county, or any local government as a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration inspector.

(c)

  (1) On appointment or employment, the individual shall place any license that the inspector holds on inactive status subject to Sec. 9A-309 of this title.

  (2) The Board may issue a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration inspector identification card to an inspector who has placed the appropriate licensee on inactive status.

  (3) On termination of the appointment or employment of an individual as a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration inspector, the Board shall reactivate the license of the individual who is on inactive status, without examination, if the individual:

    (i) makes a written request to the Board; and

    (ii) pays to the Board a reactivation fee established by the Board.

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Md. Code Ann., Bus. Reg. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)