SECTION 310:345-9-2. Continuing education requirement.

(a)   Continuing education requirement. Beginning January 1, 2008, verification of twelve (12) "classroom hours" of continuing education will be required every two years to renew a Registered Professional Sanitarian and/or Registered Professional Environmental Specialist registration. An applicant for reinstatement of registration shall not be reinstated without submitting evidence of completing twelve (12) "classroom hours" of continuing education within the twenty-four months preceding reinstatement. A person shall not apply for a new registration in an attempt to circumvent the requirement for continuing education. All registrants shall be exempt from a requirement for continuing education their first year of registration.

(b)   Continuing education reciprocity. The Council will exempt a non-resident registrant from the continuing education requirement, if the individual lives in and is registered in another state with a continuing education requirement and provides the Department with evidence of current registration in that state when renewing an Oklahoma registration.

(c)   Exemptions from the continuing education requirement. An individual who holds a "Life Registration" is not required to complete continuing education. Any individual who is registered as a "Sanitarian-In Training" and/or "Environmental Specialist-In-Training" is encouraged but is not required to complete continuing education. Continuing education shall not be required for the first year of registration as a Registered Professional Sanitarian and/or Registered Professional Environmental Specialist.

(d)   Hardship waiver of continuing education. An individual may submit a hardship waiver application to the Council for the continuing education requirement. The Council shall have the authority to deny or approve the waiver for medical hardships, military reasons, or other reasons deemed appropriate by the Council.

[Source: Amended at 24 Ok Reg 1955, eff 6-25-07]