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<chapter num="15" heading="Licensure by Reciprocity" title_num="10" subtitle_num="34">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Requirements.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>An individual applying for licensure as a pharmacist by reciprocity shall:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Submit to the Board an application on a form provided by the Board;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Pay to the Board the fee as specified in COMAR 10.34.09;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Submit to the Board evidence of completion of at least 520 hours of pharmacy experience after graduation from a school or college of pharmacy approved by the Board or accredited by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Pass the MPJE; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Pass the exam of oral English competency described in COMAR 10.34.02.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>The Board shall waive the requirements of §A(5) of this regulation if the candidate for licensure by reciprocity submits to the Board written documentation that the candidate has passed an equivalent oral English competency exam in another state that was required by the other state's licensing procedures.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Health Occupations Article, §§12-205 and 12-305, Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date: December 3, 1984 (11:24 Md. R. 2069)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Chapter recodified from COMAR 10.34.18 to 10.34.15</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01 amended effective April 16, 1990 (17:7 Md. R. 849)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01 repealed and new Regulation .01 adopted effective April 6, 1998 (25:7 Md. R. 527)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01 amended as an emergency provision effective January 7, 2022 (49:4 Md. R. 299) ); emergency status expired effective July 6, 2022</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01A amended effective July 1, 2010 (37:10 Md. R. 722)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>