Section 3776.11 - Registration required for practice of environmental health(A) No person shall engage in, or offer to engage in, the practice of environmental health without being registered in accordance with this chapter. (B) No person except a registered environmental health specialist shall use the title "registered environmental health specialist" or the abbreviation "R.E.H.S." after the person's name, or represent self as a registered environmental health specialist. (C)(1) No person except a registered environmental health specialist in training shall use the title "registered environmental health specialist in training" or the abbreviation "E.H.S.I.T." after the person's name, or represent self as a registered environmental health specialist in training. (2) No environmental health specialist in training shall engage in the active practice of environmental health for a period exceeding six years from the date that the environmental health specialist in training's registration was initially issued. During the period that a person is engaged as an environmental health specialist in training, the person shall undertake the duties of an environmental health specialist in training solely under the supervision of a registered environmental health specialist in good standing. Such supervision is a condition for the advancement of an environmental health specialist in training to an environmental health specialist. (D) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Renumbered from § 4736.15 and amended by 135th General Assembly, HB 33,§130.40, eff. 10/3/2023.Amended by 133rd General Assembly, HB 442,§1, eff. 4/12/2021.Amended by 132nd General Assembly, HB 49,§101.01, eff. 9/29/2017.Effective Date: 7/20/1987 .