Alaska Administrative Code › Title 12 - Professional Regulations › Part 1 - Boards and Commissions Subject to Centralized Licensing › Chapter 36 - State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors › Article 5 - Continuing Education for Professional Architects, Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects › 12 AAC 36.510 - Continuing education requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless exempted
				  under 12 AAC 36.530, a registrant shall
				  meet the continuing education requirements of
				  12 AAC 36.510 -
				  12 AAC 36.550 as a condition of
				  the renewal, reinstatement, or reactivation of the registrant's
				  registration.
(b) Unless exempted
				  under 12 AAC 36.530, a registrant
				  seeking renewal, reinstatement, or reactivation of the registrant's
				  registration shall submit, on a form provided by the department, a
				  certification that the registrant has met the continuing education requirements
				  of 12 AAC 36.510 -
				  12 AAC 36.550.
(c) To renew a professional architect,
				  engineer, land surveyor, or landscape architect registration, a registrant
				  shall obtain a minimum of 24 professional development hours during the 24
				  months immediately preceding that registration period.
(d) To reinstate a lapsed professional
				  architect, engineer, land surveyor, or landscape architect registration, a
				  registrant seeking reinstatement shall obtain a minimum of 24 professional
				  development hours during the 24 months immediately preceding the application
				  for reinstatement of the registrant's registration unless the registrant meets
				  the requirements of
				  12 AAC 36.530(e)
				  and obtains eight professional development hours during the 24 months
				  immediately preceding the application for reinstatement of the registrant's
				  registration, except as provided in
				  AS
				  08.01.100(d).
(e) Repealed 10/15/2023
(f) A professional architect, engineer, land
				  surveyor, or landscape architect holding multiple registrations in the state is
				  required to earn at least the minimum number of professional development hours
				  of continuing education as those required for a single registration
				  holder.
(g) Continuing education
				  courses or activities are not pre-approved by the board, but must be in
				  technical and professional subjects related to the scope of practice of the
				  registrant.
(h) Repealed
				  10/15/2023.
(i) A registrant who
				  also holds a registration as a professional architect, engineer, land surveyor,
				  or landscape architect in another licensing jurisdiction may meet the
				  requirements of
				  12 AAC 36.510 -
				  12 AAC 36.550 by establishing that
				  the registrant has met the mandatory continuing education requirements for
				  renewal of the professional architect, engineer, land surveyor, or landscape
				  architect registration in the other licensing jurisdiction, if the mandatory
				  continuing education requirements of the other jurisdiction are substantially
				  similar to or exceed those of
				  12 AAC 36.510 -
				  12 AAC 36.550 at the time that
				  continuing education credit is claimed.
(j) To reactivate a retired professional
				  architect, engineer, land surveyor, or landscape architect registration, a
				  professional architect, engineer, land surveyor, or landscape architect seeking
				  reactivation must obtain 24 professional development hours during the 24 months
				  immediately preceding the application for reactivation of the professional
				  architect, engineer, land surveyor, or landscape architect registration unless
				  the registrant meets the requirements of
				  12 AAC 36.530(e)
				  and obtains eight professional development hours during the 24 months
				  immediately preceding the application for reinstatement of the registrant's
				  registration, except as provided in
				  AS
				  08.01.100(d).
(k) If an applicant for renewal of an
				  architect, engineer, land surveyor, or landscape architect registration fails
				  to meet the continuing education requirements of (c) of this section on or
				  before December 31 of the current biennium, the applicant may request an
				  extension to complete the required professional development hours. This
				  extension does not function as a license extension and the registrant cannot
				  practice during this period. The applicant must
(1) submit a completed application for
				  biennial registration renewal on a form provided by the department;
(2) pay the biennial registration renewal and
				  continuing education extension fees established in
				  12 AAC 02.110;
(3) complete the required professional development
				  hours before the first January 31st of the new biennium; and
(4) submit a continuing education audit form
				  with documentation, acceptable to the board, showing completion of the required
				  continuing education.