Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) The Board, after
notice to the education provider, may conduct an informal conference to review
an education provider's, instructor's, or course's compliance with the Act and
this Part. The Board shall make a recommendation to the Department based upon
its findings and conclusions resulting from that conference.
b) Upon written recommendation of the Board
to the Director, the Department may refuse to issue or renew a license,
reprimand, fine, place on probation, suspend or revoke any license or otherwise
discipline any license of any education provider, pre-license instructor,
pre-license course, CE instructor, CE course, post-license course, or an
applicant for any license when:
1) The
quality of the course, instruction or program fails to meet the established
criteria as set forth in the Act and this Part;
2) The licensee commits fraud or
misrepresentation in applying for a license;
3) Any other professional license,
accreditation or certification of the instructor, school or course is
suspended, revoked or otherwise disciplined;
4) The licensee dismisses a student from a
course, without good cause, and that dismissal results in required hours not
being met;
5) The licensee fails to
adhere to approved course materials;
6) The licensee conducts a course while the
license is inactive, nonrenewed, expired, suspended, revoked or surrendered, or
an applicant conducts a course prior to being issued a license;
7) A licensee plagiarizes course material of
another;
8) A course is not
conducted in accordance with the delivery method represented to the Division at
the time the application for licensure was submitted, or a course no longer
complies with the criteria for the licensure;
9) The licensee does not enforce policies
relating to courses, instructor qualifications, student attendance, or course
scheduling;
10) The licensee or
applicant misrepresents any material fact relating to a course;
11) The licensee fails to maintain, for a
period of at least 5 years, accurate records of students' course completion or
fulfill, within 14 days, student or Division requests for course completion
certificates;
12) The licensee
assists a student, directly or indirectly, in cheating on an examination,
including but not limited to providing a copy of the exam or questions and
answers to the exam;
13) The
licensee or applicant makes any substantial misrepresentation, or engages in
misleading or untruthful advertising, including but not limited to guaranteeing
success or a "passing score" on any examination or any course, or using any
trade name or indicia of membership in any organization in which the applicant
or licensee is not a member;
14)
The licensee or applicant teaches courses without being licensed, assists an
unlicensed individual in teaching a course, or teaches an unlicensed or
unapproved course;
15) The licensee
or applicant fails to provide information to the Division as required under any
provision of the Act or this Part;
16) The licensee or applicant disregards or
violates any provision of the Act or this Part; or
17) A licensed pre-license or CE instructor
fails to notify an education provider that the instructor license is subject to
a restriction set forth in Sections
1450.1115(b)
and
1450.1145(d).
c) Disciplinary proceedings shall
be conducted as set forth in the Act and this Part.
