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24.121.2101    CONTINUING EDUCATION - INSTRUCTORS/INACTIVE INSTRUCTORS

(1) Active instructors shall complete 30 hours of board-approved continuing education (CE) per renewal period to maintain active status licensure.

(2) Courses taught via distance education must first be approved by the board.

(3) Continuing education courses must be germane to the practice of barbering, cosmetology, electrology, esthetics, manicuring, or instructing.

(4) Requests for approval of CE courses must be made on forms approved by the board or its designee.

(5) A maximum of ten hours per renewal period may be obtained at trade shows where products are being promoted.

(6) All approved education must be open and available to all instructor licensees, unless it violates a franchise agreement.

(7) CE courses must be completed prior to applying for renewal of an active instructor license.

(8) Licensees shall maintain records of their CE hours for a minimum of three years.

(9) Credit will be granted only for the actual hours attended. Attendance will be recorded in half-hour increments.

(10) Continuing education hours will not be granted to an instructor teaching the course.

(11) The course provider must supply each licensee with a course completion certificate and course evaluation form and must verify attendance of each licensee.

(12) No licensee shall repeat a course for credit in any three-year period.

(13) Course approval will be for the current calendar year. All courses will expire March 1 of each year.

(14) Course approval may be revoked for cause.

(15) An instructor may receive credit for attending board-sponsored events.

(16) A licensee may place their instructor license on inactive status by submitting a written request that the license be placed inactive.

(17) An inactive licensee has the sole responsibility to keep the board informed of any change of the licensee's mailing address during the period of time the instructor license remains on inactive status.

(18) In order to avoid lapse, expiration, or termination of the instructor license, an inactive licensee must renew the inactive license each renewal period.

(19) An inactive licensee does not need to report continuing education until converting the license to active status.

(20) To convert an inactive instructor license to active status, licensees shall submit evidence of completion of 15 hours of approved continuing education obtained within the 12-month period prior to converting the license.

History: 37-1-131, 37-1-319, 37-31-203, MCA; IMP, 37-1-141, 37-1-306, MCA; NEW, 2004 MAR p. 2813, Eff. 11/19/04; AMD, 2006 MAR p. 1383, Eff. 6/2/06; AMD, 2006 MAR p. 1583, Eff. 7/1/06; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 2378, Eff. 10/15/10; AMD, 2012 MAR p. 616, Eff. 3/23/12.

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