Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 491 - Home Inspectors › Home Inspector Interns › Section 20-491-28 - Supervision of home inspector interns

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) While
				performing inspection work, all home inspector interns shall be subject to
				supervision by a home inspector licensed pursuant to section 20-492a of the
				Connecticut General Statutes.
(b)
				The supervising licensed home inspector shall be responsible for the direct
				supervision of at least the first ten (10) of the intern's home
				inspections.
(c) "Direct
				supervision" means the supervising licensed home inspector shall be physically
				present and witness the home inspector intern conducting the home inspection in
				accordance with subsection (c) of section 20-493b of the Connecticut General
				Statutes.
(d) No more than one home
				inspector intern may be present during the indirect supervision requirement
				period at any one site. A home inspector intern shall not supervise the home
				inspection of another intern.
(e)
				Only one directly or indirectly supervised intern may receive credit towards
				the one hundred inspections requirement for any home inspection conducted at
				any one site.
(f) The supervising
				licensed home inspector shall:
(1) Accept
				legal responsibility for all home inspection work performed by such intern,
				including all resulting written inspection reports, inspection review reports,
				consulting reports and work product by signing and certifying that each report
				has been reviewed and is in compliance with this section and sections
				20-491-1 to
				20-491-27, inclusive, of the
				Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;
(2) Review all aspects of the home inspector
				intern's inspection reports, inspection review reports, consulting reports, or
				work product;
(3) Inspect each
				residential property with the home inspector intern until completion of the
				first ten (10) home inspections required to be directly supervised have been
				completed in accordance with the competency provision of this section and
				sections 20491-1 to 20-491-27, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut
				State Agencies;
(4) Sign the home
				inspection log at the completion of each inspection performed by the home
				inspection intern;
(5) Maintain a
				separate copy of each home inspection log completed by each home inspector
				intern;
(6) Provide, upon request,
				the home inspector intern with copies of the inspection reports that the home
				inspector intern prepared;
(7) Sign
				a notification to the Board of the supervision of the home inspector intern. By
				signing the notification of supervision, the licensed home inspector agrees to
				assume the responsibilities and duties of a supervising home inspector as
				provided in chapter 400f of the Connecticut General Statutes and, this section
				and sections
				20-491-1 to 20491-27, inclusive,
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;
(8) Cooperate with the department regarding
				matters related to all regulated activities;
(9) Notify the department on a form
				prescribed by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection of the termination of
				supervision of a home inspector intern not later than ten (10) days after such
				termination; and
(10) At least
				forty-eight (48) hours prior to a home inspection, the home inspector
				supervisor shall notify a client that a home inspection shall be performed by a
				home inspector intern.