Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
(1) A school wishing to offer a Salesperson
Pre-Examination Course, a Broker Pre-Examination Course, a Missouri Real Estate
Practice Course and/or continuing education course(s) in Missouri will be
accredited by the commission upon compliance with the following requirements:
(A) Each person involved directly or
indirectly in the sponsorship of a school or who participates or has an
interest, financial or otherwise, in its operation, shall be at least eighteen
(18) years of age and a person of good moral character and bear a good
reputation for honesty, integrity and fair dealings;
(B) Each school shall be supervised by an
administrator, who shall be in charge of its operations and programs;
(C) The school shall be responsible to see
that the school's instructors have the specialized preparation, training and
experience in the subject matter to be taught to ensure competent
instruction;
(D) The school shall
advise all students, prior to contractual obligation, that certain criminal
convictions may prevent the student from receiving or retaining a real estate
license;
(E) The school shall enter
into a contract with each student enrolling to take a Salesperson
Pre-Examination Course, Broker Pre-Examination Course, or the Missouri Practice
Course of study. This contract shall identify the tuition to be charged, the
school's policy regarding refund of unearned tuition when a student is
dismissed or withdraws voluntarily or through hardship, any additional fee to
be charged for supplies, materials or books which become the property of the
student upon payment, the standard for the issuance of a certificate of
satisfactory completion and such other matters as are material to the
relationship between the school and the student;
(F) The Salesperson Pre-Examination Course,
Broker Pre-Examination Course, and Missouri Real Estate Practice Course offered
shall include the subjects set forth in
20
CSR 2250-6.060;
(G) In the case of classroom delivery
courses, each area of study shall be conducted and supervised by an instructor
who shall be present in the classroom at all times;
(H) In the case of distance delivered
courses, an instructor must respond to each student's inquiries by the end of
the next regular business day;
(I)
The school shall issue to each student who satisfactorily completes the
prescribed course of study a certificate of satisfactory completion on a form
prescribed by the commission;
(J)
For any continuing education classroom course attended by more than twenty-five
(25) students, the sponsor shall have a person other than the instructor
present to assist in administrative duties including, but not limited to,
keeping records of attendance, preparing and distributing certificates and
assuring that the physical facilities meet the requirements of this
section;
(K) Record Maintenance.
1. Each school shall maintain for each
student a record which shall include the course of instruction undertaken,
dates of attendance and areas of study completed satisfactorily.
2. Each school shall maintain a copy of the
attendance records for each date and time a particular course is
offered.
3. A school shall supply
duplicate certificates to the individuals upon request. A reasonable charge may
be made for duplicate certificates.
4. Schools approved to offer courses by
distance delivery, in addition, shall maintain records of all final
examinations and examination administration.
5. Each student's records shall be maintained
by the school for a minimum of four (4) years and shall be available for
inspection by the student or by the commission or its authorized agent during
regular business hours or shall provide them to the commission by certified
mail within thirty (30) days of written request.
6. If a school closes, within ten (10) days,
the school owner must provide in writing to the Missouri Real Estate Commission
the contact information for the custodian of records for the previous four (4)
years. If the school is closed due to a merger or sale, the records shall be
turned over to and become the responsibility of the new school;
(L) Advertising and Publicity.
1. No school shall use any name for
advertising or publicity purposes other than the name shown upon its
application for accreditation.
2.
No school shall advertise or imply that it is recommended, endorsed or approved
by the commission, but an accredited school may indicate what courses it has
been approved to teach by the Missouri Real Estate Commission.
3. No school shall permit its administrator,
staff, instructor(s), or any person associated in any way to provide any
misleading information to the public or prospective students.
4. No school shall permit its administrator,
staff, instructor(s), or any person associated in any way approved to teach the
pre-examination courses to make any warranties or guarantees that a student
will pass the real estate license examination by taking its courses.
5. Each school shall advertise any approved
course in clear and unambiguous terms, which includes a statement indicating
the number of hours of education credit for which the course is approved and
the correct title of the course as it is stated in the course approval letter
provided by the commission.
6. No
real estate education course shall be announced or advertised until it is
approved by the commission, in writing, for credit; and (M) Physical facilities
used to teach any approved classroom course shall:
1. Be designed primarily for classroom
purposes or designed for multipurpose use in the case of meeting halls and
convention facilities;
2. Contain
proper seating and writing surfaces;
3. Be properly lighted;
4. Be properly ventilated;
5. Be reasonably free from distracting
pedestrian traffic;
6. Be
reasonably free of sound and light disturbances; and
7. Not contain recruiting material and be
free of reference to individual real estate firms, groups of firms or
franchises, unless the course is restricted to only licensees of the referenced
firm or franchise and the notice submitted by the school to the commission is
clearly marked as a restricted class.
(2) When the commission has
accredited a school based upon its application and submissions, a letter of
accreditation shall be issued to the school. Accreditation is granted and
limited to the specific ownership as shown on the application.
(3) A school must notify the commission of
any change of administrator within ten (10) days.
(4) Each school shall report to the
commission, in writing within ten (10) days, any changes in the information
contained in the application for accreditation or the exhibits appended to the
application. Changes will not be deemed accepted until such time as
acknowledgement of the changes is provided by the commission.
(5) Initial accreditation of a school shall
be valid for no more than one (1) year and shall expire on March 31.
Accreditation shall be renewable upon submission of an accepted renewal
application as provided by the commission no earlier than sixty (60) days prior
to and no later than the accreditation expiration date. If renewed before
expiration, the accreditation shall expire on March 31 of the second
odd-numbered year to follow the renewal date. Failure to renew prior to
accreditation expiration shall void all course approvals and the school shall
no longer be deemed accredited and will be required to submit the appropriate
applications and documents as a new school.
*Original authority: 339.045, RSMo 1978, amended 1981,
1983; 339.090, RSMo 1941, amended 1978, 2001; and 339.120, RSMo 1941, amended
1963, 1967, 1981, 1988, 1993, 1995, 1999,
2004.
