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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 10.56.05.03" title_num="10" subtitle_num="56" chapter_num="05" heading="Conditions of Licensure Renewal; Continuing Education Units Required.">
  <text>The Board shall renew a license for an additional 2-year period if the licensee:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Otherwise is entitled to be licensed as set forth in COMAR 10.56.02;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Pays to the Board the renewal fee as set forth in COMAR 10.56.02; and</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Submits to the Board:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A renewal application on the form that the Board requires, and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Satisfactory evidence of having completed, within the 2-year period before the renewal date, a minimum of 30 continuing education units approved by the Board or sponsored by, but not limited to, the following organizations:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The Commission on Dietetic Registration, including approved Commission on Dietetic Registration Continuing Professional Education Providers;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>The American College of Nutrition;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>American Society for Nutrition;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>The Accreditation Council for Pharmaceutical Education;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>American Osteopathic Association;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>The Red Cross;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(i)">
        <text>United States Department of Agriculture, including, but not limited to, Agricultural Research Services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(j)">
        <text>National Institutes of Health;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(k)">
        <text>Food and Drug Administration;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(l)">
        <text>Accredited colleges and universities;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(m)">
        <text>Accredited hospitals as defined in Health-General Article, §19-301, Annotated Code of Maryland; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(n)">
        <text>The Maryland Department of Health.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>