Reexamination

PURPOSE: This rule outlines the requirements and procedures for retaking the licensure examination for a registered geologist. (1) Any applicant who fails the license examination may request to be reexamined as follows: (A) To be reexamined, a candidate must notify the board and pay the appropriate nonrefundable examination fee no less than sixty (60) days prior to the scheduled examination; and (B) After paying the examination fee, a candidate may be reexamined within an eighteen (18)-month period of the date of the failed exam without filing a new application. (2) A candidate who fails any section of the initial examination and two (2) subsequent reexaminations shall be disqualified from retaking the examination a fourth time, until submitting a written plan for passing the examination and meeting with the board if requested. AUTHORITY: section 256.462.3, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 145-2.050. Emergency rule filed June 29, 1995, effective July 9, 1995, expired Nov. 5, 1995. Original rule filed Sept. 28, 1995, effective May 30, 1996. Moved to 20 CSR 2145-2.050, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed Nov. 7, 2007, effective May 30, 2008. *Original authority: 256.462, RSMo 1994.