Each individual whom the State, a county, or a local government appoints or employs as a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration inspector shall: each year attend a continuing education course that the Board or, with the approval of the Board, a county or local government conducts; and meet minimum standards that are: established by the Board; and administered: for a county or local government inspector, by the county or local government that appoints or employs the inspectors; and for a State inspector by the State. 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. On appointment or employment, the individual shall place any license that the inspector holds on inactive status subject to § 9A-309 of this title. 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. 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: makes a written request to the Board; and pays to the Board a reactivation fee established by the Board.