Iowa Administrative Code
Agency 641 - Public Health Department
Chapter 30 - Continuing Education for Plumbing and Mechanical Systems Professionals
Rule 641-30.6 - Continuing Education Exemptions
Universal Citation: IA Admin Code 641-30.6
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 6, September 18, 2024
(1) Automatic exemptions. A licensee will be exempt from the continuing education requirement during the continuing education compliance period when that person:
a. Served honorably
on active duty in the military service;
b. Resided in another state or district
having continuing education requirements for the discipline and met all
mandates of that state or district for practice therein;
c. Was a government employee working in the
licensee's specialty and assigned to duty outside the United States;
d. Was absent from the state but engaged in
active practice under circumstances that are approved by the board;
e. Obtained a journeyperson license by
examination provided that the licensee maintains the same renewal date as the
licensee's apprentice license. This automatic exemption only applies to the
licensee's first renewal of the journeyperson license;
f. Obtained a specialty, journeyperson, or
master license with less than one year remaining in the continuing education
compliance period. This exemption applies only to the licensee's first renewal
of that license and only to each license that was issued with less than one
year remaining in the continuing education compliance period; or
g. Possesses an inactive specialty license
under 641-subrule 23.8(3) and is also actively licensed as an
apprentice.
(2) Permissive exemptions. The board may, in cases involving exceptional hardship or extenuating circumstances, grant an exemption from some or all of the continuing education requirements.
a. A licensee seeking a permissive exemption
will apply to the board, in such form as the board may prescribe.
b. A licensee seeking a permissive exemption
will provide all such documentary evidence as the board may request to
establish the exceptional hardship or extenuating circumstances.
c. In the event a licensee claims a physical
or mental disability or illness, the board may request information from a
licensed health care professional who can attest to the existence of any such
disability or illness.
d. A
licensee who applies for a permissive exemption will be notified in writing of
the board's decision.
e. In
granting an exemption, the board may impose any such additional conditions on
the exemption including but not limited to the requirement that the licensee
make up a portion of the continuing education requirements.
f. In lieu of granting a full or partial
exemption, the board may grant the licensee an extension of time in which to
complete the continuing education requirements.
g. The granting of an exemption will not keep
a licensee from seeking, or the board from granting, an exemption in a
subsequent biennial continuing education compliance period(s).
h. Permissive exemptions will only be granted
in the most exceptional and extraordinary of circumstances.
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