Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS › Chapter 99 - REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND SALESPERSONS › Subchapter 9 - CONTINUING EDUCATION › Section 16-99-87 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this subchapter:
"Beyond professional entry" means the course objectives
				  involve learning outcomes which help the licensee develop more than minimal
				  entry level competency in the subject matter of the course including consumer
				  protection in real estate transactions.
"Certified" means that the commission has made a
				  determination that the course or course offering satisfies all requirements
				  prescribed by statutes and rules.
"Clock hours" means sixty minutes of classroom instructions
				  excluding time for registration and other non-instructional matters.
"Consumer protection" means course content relating to
				  section
				  467-14,
				  HRS, or section
				  16-99-3.
"Continuing education" means clock hours of core courses and
				  elective courses that involve areas designed to improve a licensee's competency
				  or professional standards and practice, and 'which courses are determined by
				  the commission to exceed minimum entry level competency in the subject matter
				  of the course, including consumer protection in real estate
				  transactions.
"Continuing education hours" means the mandatory hours as
				  required in section
				  467-11.5,
				  HRS.
"Core" course means a mandatory continuing education course
				  or course offering certified and designated as a "core" course by the
				  commission that each individual licensee must complete to satisfy the
				  continuing education hours requirement.
"Completion of course" means licensee's orderly attendance
				  throughout the entire course.
"Course and course offering" means a continuing education
				  module of instruction certified by the commission, consisting of a minimum of
				  three clock hours and a maximum as the commission may determine.
"Disciplined by the real estate commission" means the
				  commission's issuance of a final order in which a licensee is found in
				  violation of a specific real estate law or rule; or means a commission approved
				  settlement agreement in which a licensee admits to violating a specific real
				  estate law or rule.
"Elective" course means a continuing education course or
				  course offering certified by the commission that an individual licensee may
				  choose to complete to satisfy the continuing education hours
				  requirement.
"Instructor" means an individual who teaches continuing
				  education_courses.
"Material change" means a significant deviation, in one or
				  more aspects from the course as originally certified by the commission
				  including a change in course length or clock hours, but not including changes
				  designed to reflect recent changes in statutes, regulations, or case
				  law.
"Professional standards and practice courses" means course
				  content relating to real estate professional development that improves real
				  estate competency of the licensee or for the benefit of the real estate
				  consumer, or both.
"Provider" means any person, partnership, association,
				  corporation, limited liability company, educational organization, school, or
				  other entity which sponsors, offers, organizes, develops, delivers, or provides
				  for the instruction of a real estate continuing education course.
"Registered" means a person, partnership, association,
				  corporation, limited liability company, educational organization, school, or
				  other entity has submitted all required documentation for registration as a
				  provider and that the documentation satisfactorily supports the provider's
				  administrative ability for delivering continuing education
				  courses.