Section 33-30-02-04 - Qualifications and requirements for licensure as an environmental health practitioner1. Complete an application for licensure and pay the required application fee. 2. Have received a baccalaureate degree in an accredited environmental health curriculum or a baccalaureate in the physical, chemical, or biological sciences, including at least thirty semester or forty-five quarter credits in a physical, chemical, or biological science, or a degree beyond baccalaureate in environmental health or in a physical, chemical, or biological science. 3. Pass the national registered environmental health specialist/registered sanitarian (REHS/RS) examination administered by the national environmental health association or equivalent. Persons meeting the licensure requirements in subsections 1 and 2 who have not yet passed the environmental health REHS/RS examination will be considered board eligible. A person who is board eligible may work in the field of environmental health but such work must be under the direction and supervision of a licensed environmental health practitioner. A person who is board eligible may work under a licensed environmental health practitioner for no more than a total of five years after which such person may work in the field of environmental health only after passing the national REHS/RS examination. Environmental health practitioners licensed prior to January 1, 1993, will be exempt from the examination requirement. N.D. Admin Code 33-30-02-04
Effective February 1, 1988; amended effective January 1, 1993; May 1, 2004.General Authority: NDCC 43-43-04
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-43-04