Ohio Administrative Code
Title 1301:5 - Division of Real Estate
Chapter 1301:5-7 - Continuing Education
Section 1301:5-7-02 - Continuing education requirements
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) All real estate licensees, except as provided in paragraph (D) of this rule, are required to certify completion of thirty hours of continuing education courses every three years. If a licensee is licensed as a broker, broker on deposit, or acts as a management level licensee, a three hour course on the duties of a principal broker and other issues involved in operating a real estate brokerage must be included within the required thirty hours of continuing education courses. the licensee is in compliance with this rule. All licensees must maintain proof of compliance for six years and shall make such records available for audit.
(B) Licensees must certify completing the thirty hours of continuing education on or before the licensee's date of birth three years after the licensee's date of initial licensure and every three years thereafter.
(C) Where a licensee fails to meet the continuing education requirements of section 4735.141 of the Revised Code because the license was inactive due to military service, the licensee must submit proof of completing the thirty hours of continuing education, on or before the date required by section 4735.13 of the Revised Code. The continuing education submitted shall satisfy the continuing education requirements for the first renewal filed following the date of honorable discharge or separation under honorable conditions from the armed forces.
(D) Each licensee, who is seventy years of age or older shall submit proof of completing the hours of continuing education listed in paragraph (E) of this rule on or before the licensee's date of birth and every three years thereafter. Each licensee with an inactive license, or broker license on deposit, who is seventy years of age or older, is exempt from the continuing education requirements specified in paragraph (E) of this rule.
Regardless of age, if a licensee is licensed as a broker, broker on deposit, or acts as a management level licensee, the licensee shall submit proof of completing a three hour course on the duties of a principal broker and other issues involved in operating a real estate brokerage on or before the licensee's date of birth and every three years thereafter.
(E) For every three-year reporting period, licensees shall complete pursuant to the statutory continuing education requirement in division (A) of section 4735.141 of the Revised Code:
(F) The licensee shall submit to the superintendent of real estate and professional licensing proof of completion on a form prescribed by the superintendent.
(G) For the purposes of this rule, the term hour of continuing education shall consist of sixty minutes.
(H) A maximum of ten continuing education hours, obtained in excess of the required thirty credits for a three year reporting period, may be transferred to help meet the requirements of the subsequent reporting period. No licensee shall receive credit for more than eight classroom hours of continuing education instruction taken in any one calendar day.
(I) Except as provided in this paragraph, courses completed prior to being certified by the division of real estate and professional licensing do not qualify for continuing education credit. Licensees may receive credit for a course that has not been previously certified by the commission, only when:
