Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE › Division 2250 - Missouri Real Estate Commission › Chapter 7 - Schools › Section 20 CSR 2250-7.070 - General Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule establishes general requirements
				  that each real estate school must meet.
(1) Any school offering a Salesperson and/or
				Broker Pre-Examination Course, Missouri Real Estate Practice Course and/or
				continuing education course(s) must be accredited to teach real estate courses
				in Missouri before offering or advertising such course(s) for credit.
(2) For the purpose of the course offerings
				by accredited real estate schools, an hour means sixty (60) minutes, at least
				fifty (50) minutes of which shall be devoted to actual instruction and no more
				than ten (10) minutes of which shall be devoted to a recess. Times allotted for
				supervised examinations may be regarded as hours of instruction.
(3) A student enrolled in a Salesperson
				Pre-Examination Course shall not receive credit for attending any portion of a
				Broker Pre-Examination Course.
(4)
				A student enrolled in a Broker Pre-Examination Course shall not receive credit
				for attending any portion of a Salesperson Pre-Examination Course.
(5) Course approval will be for the duration
				of the license period for which approval is sought.
(6) All applications for course approval
				shall be submitted by the originating school at least ninety (90) days prior to
				the date the course is initially expected to be offered. Applications shall
				include a complete course outline showing all subjects covered in the course.
				In the case of a continuing education course no fewer than three (3) unique
				learning objectives per course hour shall be identified and included in the
				application prescribed by the Missouri Real Estate Commission. The commission
				will respond in writing to all requests for course approval within forty-five
				(45) days of receipt of a properly completed application. The commission will
				either assign a course number or other identification to a course when it is
				approved or will notify the applicant of the grounds for the course not being
				approved.
(7) If the commission
				determines that a proposed course does not meet prescribed standards or if the
				proposed course does not adequately reflect and present current real estate
				knowledge toward the goal of public protection and service, notice in writing
				specifying the deficiencies will be provided to the school. The school shall
				have no more than sixty (60) days to correct the deficiencies or the course
				will be deemed denied.
(8) With
				prior written permission on file from the original school, other accredited
				schools may offer a currently approved course and must be able to present the
				written permission upon request to the commission.
(9) Courses that are substantially unchanged
				that have been approved in the immediately preceding license period may make
				application, prior to the expiration date of that course, as a course renewal
				on a form prescribed by the commission.
(10) No classroom Salesperson Pre-Examination
				Course, Broker Pre-Examination Course, or Missouri Real Estate Practice Course
				may exceed eight (8) hours in length per day and must provide for at least a
				half-hour break after four (4) hours.
(11) No part of any approved education course
				shall be used to solicit membership in organizations, recruit licensees for
				affiliation with any organization, or advertise the merits of any
				organization.
(12) Dates, times,
				and location(s) of classroom course offerings must be electronically submitted
				to the commission at least ten (10) days prior to each course offering. Should
				changes occur in this information, the school must submit the changes
				immediately via the reporting method prescribed by the commission.
(13) Advertising for an approved distance
				delivered course shall clearly describe all course requirements that must be
				met by the licensee/student, including satisfactory completion of a final
				examination.
(14) The student must
				be physically present in the classroom during one hundred percent (100%) of the
				actual classroom instruction unless there is good cause as determined by the
				school and then the school, at its discretion, may allow a student to be absent
				up to ten percent (10%) of the required hours and still be issued a certificate
				of attendance. Documentation of duration of absence must be maintained in the
				school's records.
(15) No school
				shall allow anyone to use the school's premises or classroom to recruit new
				affiliates for any company one (1) hour before, one (1) hour after, during
				break periods, lunch periods, or during an instruction period, nor shall any
				school provide lists of students attending classes to any broker for the
				purposes of recruiting.
(16) The
				school, at the close of any classroom course, shall hand to each individual who
				has satisfactorily completed the course, a certificate of course completion in
				a form prescribed by the commission. For licensees who register for the
				continuing education course on-site without pre-registration, the certificate
				of course completion must be sent to the licensee within five (5) days of the
				course completion and the school must have an adequate sign-in/sign-out
				procedure to ensure attendance and certificate issuance.
(17) Within no more than ten (10) days of the
				completion of a course, the school shall electronically submit to the
				commission in a format prescribed by the commission, a complete and accurate
				list of attendees who have satisfactorily completed the course.
(18) All courses of study must be taught in
				adherence to the outline on file with the commission. In the event a
				substantive change is proposed, the school must file a revised course outline
				on a form prescribed by the commission at least thirty (30) days in advance of
				the scheduled course offering. Approval in writing from the commission must be
				received prior to implementation of any substantive course change. The
				commission must respond to any proposed changes within twenty (20) days of
				receipt.
*Original authority: 339.045, RSMo 1978, amended 1981,
					 1983; 339.090, RSMo 1941, amended 1978, 2001; and 339.120, RSMo 1941, amended
					 1963, 1967, 1981, 1988, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2004,
					 2008.