Renewal of License

PURPOSE: This rule provides information regarding the annual renewal of a license as a registered geologist or geologist-registrant in-training. (1) A license may be renewed on or before the expiration date of the license by submitting the signed renewal notice and fee as set forth in these regulations. (2) Failure of a registered geologist or geologist-registrant intraining to receive the notice and application to renew his/ her license shall not excuse him/her from the requirement to renew that license. (3) Failure to renew a license within sixty (60) days of the registration renewal date shall affect an administrative revocation of the license as authorized by section 256.468.12, RSMo. (4) Any registered geologist or geologist-registrant in-training who fails to renew the license or whose license has been administratively revoked shall not perform any act or provide any service for which a license is required. (5) Any individual who failed to renew the license within the sixty (60)-day period set forth in section 256.468.10, RSMo, and who wishes to restore the license shall make application to the board by submitting the following within two (2) years of the registration renewal date: (A) An application for restoration of the license; and (B) The delinquency fee as set forth in 20 CSR 2145-1.040. (6) Licensees who request to be classified as inactive may maintain their inactive status and receive a license indicating their inactive status by paying the inactive license renewal fee as provided in 20 CSR 2145-1.040. A holder of an inactive license shall not have his/her license reactivated until he/she pays the required reactivation fee. If a holder of an inactive license reactivates at the time of renewal, the licensee shall only be required to pay the renewal fee. AUTHORITY: section 256.462.3, RSMo 2000, and section 256.468.10, RSMo Supp. 2013.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 145-2.080. 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 2145-2.080, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed Nov. 7, 2007, effective May 30, 2008. Amended: Filed May 22, 2013, effective Jan. 30, 2014. *Original authority: 256.462, RSMo 1994 and 256.468, RSMo 1994, amended 1997, 2005.