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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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H.B. 844
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FOR the purpose of requiring that certain continuing education courses relate to real
estate or the provision of real estate services; authorizing a member association
of the Maryland Association of Realtors or a qualified instructor to conduct
certain continuing education courses; prohibiting the State Real Estate
Commission from requiring that a qualified instructor or educational institution
have a certain certificate of approval as a postsecondary education institution;
requiring the State Real Estate Commission to accept as evidence of certain
licensees' completion of certain continuing education requirements evidence of
any course attended in another state, United States territory, or the District of
Columbia, regardless of whether there is a reciprocal agreement with that
location; requiring the State Real Estate Commission to provide for the conduct
of continuing education courses by certain methods of transmission by a certain
date; making a stylistic change; and generally relating to continuing education
requirements for real estate brokers, associate real estate brokers, and real
estate salespersons.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Business Occupations and Professions
Section 17-315
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Business Occupations and Professions
17-315.
(a) (1) To qualify for renewal of a license under this subtitle, a licensee shall
complete [:
(i) in the license term that begins in 1992, at least 12 clock hours of
continuing education instruction, as provided in this section, during each 2-year
license term; and
(ii) in and after the license term that begins in 1996,] at least 15
clock hours of continuing education instruction, as provided in this section, during the
preceding 2-year term.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of this subsection:
(i) a licensee who is granted a license during the second year of a
license term may renew a license for the next full term without complying with the
continuing education requirements of this section; and
(ii) a licensee who has been licensed for 10 years or more may
satisfy the continuing education requirements and renew a license for the next full
term by completing 6 clock hours of continuing education instruction that outlines
relevant changes that have occurred in federal, State, or local laws, or any
combination of those laws.
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