General Requirements

PURPOSE: This rule establishes general requirements that each real estate school must meet. (1) Any school offering a Salesperson and/or Broker Pre-Examination Course, Missouri Real Estate Practice Course and/or continuing education course(s) must be accredited to teach real estate courses in Missouri before offering or advertising such course(s) for credit. (2) For the purpose of the course offerings by accredited real estate schools, an hour means sixty (60) minutes, at least fifty (50) minutes of which shall be devoted to actual instruction and no more than ten (10) minutes of which shall be devoted to a recess. Times allotted for supervised examinations may be regarded as hours of instruction. (3) A student enrolled in a Salesperson PreExamination Course shall not receive credit for attending any portion of a Broker PreExamination Course. (4) A student enrolled in a Broker Pre-Examination Course shall not receive credit for attending any portion of a Salesperson PreExamination Course. (5) Course approval will be for the duration of the license period for which approval is sought. (6) All applications for course approval shall be submitted by the originating school at least ninety (90) days prior to the date the course is initially expected to be offered. Applications shall include a complete course outline showing all subjects covered in the course. In the case of a continuing education course no fewer than three (3) unique learning objectives per course hour shall be identified and included in the application prescribed by the Missouri Real Estate Commission. The commission will respond in writing to all requests for course approval within forty-five (45) days of receipt of a properly completed application. The commission will either assign a course number or other identification to a course when it is approved or will notify the applicant of the grounds for the course not being approved. (7) If the commission determines that a proposed course does not meet prescribed standards or if the proposed course does not adequately reflect and present current real estate knowledge toward the goal of public protection and service, notice in writing specifying the deficiencies will be provided to the school. The school shall have no more than sixty (60) days to correct the deficiencies or the course will be deemed denied. (8) With prior written permission on file from the original school, other accredited schools may offer a currently approved course and must be able to present the written permission upon request to the commission. (9) Courses that are substantially unchanged that have been approved in the immediately preceding license period may make application, prior to the expiration date of that course, as a course renewal on a form prescribed by the commission. (10) No classroom Salesperson Pre-Examination Course, Broker Pre-Examination Course, or Missouri Real Estate Practice Course may exceed eight (8) hours in length per day and must provide for at least a half-hour break after four (4) hours. (11) No part of any approved education course shall be used to solicit membership in organizations, recruit licensees for affiliation with any organization, or advertise the merits of any organization. (12) Dates, times, and location(s) of classroom course offerings must be electronically submitted to the commission at least ten (10) days prior to each course offering. Should changes occur in this information, the school must submit the changes immediately via the reporting method prescribed by the commission. (13) Advertising for an approved distance delivered course shall clearly describe all course requirements that must be met by the licensee/student, including satisfactory completion of a final examination. (14) The student must be physically present in the classroom during one hundred percent (100%) of the actual classroom instruction unless there is good cause as determined by the school and then the school, at its discretion, may allow a student to be absent up to ten percent (10%) of the required hours and still be issued a certificate of attendance. Documentation of duration of absence must be maintained in the school’s records. (15) No school shall allow anyone to use the school’s premises or classroom to recruit new affiliates for any company one (1) hour before, one (1) hour after, during break periods, lunch periods, or during an instruction period, nor shall any school provide lists of students attending classes to any broker for the purposes of recruiting. (16) The school, at the close of any classroom course, shall hand to each individual who has satisfactorily completed the course, a certificate of course completion in a form prescribed by the commission. For licensees who register for the continuing education course on-site without pre-registration, the certificate of course completion must be sent to the licensee within five (5) days of the course completion and the school must have an adequate sign-in/sign-out procedure to ensure attendance and certificate issuance. (17) Within no more than ten (10) days of the completion of a course, the school shall electronically submit to the commission in a format prescribed by the commission, a complete and accurate list of attendees who have satisfactorily completed the course. (18) All courses of study must be taught in adherence to the outline on file with the commission. In the event a substantive change is proposed, the school must file a revised course outline on a form prescribed by the commission at least thirty (30) days in advance of the scheduled course offering. Approval in writing from the commission must be received prior to implementation of any substantive course change. The commission must respond to any proposed changes within twenty (20) days of receipt. AUTHORITY: section 339.045, RSMo 2000, and sections 339.090 and 339.120, RSMo Supp. 2011.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 250-7.070. Original rule filed April 6, 2006, effective Sept. 30, 2006. Moved to 20 CSR 2250-7.070, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed Oct. 27, 2011, effective April 30, 2012 *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, 2008.