21 NCAC 04B .0805. SPONSOR REQUIREMENTS

(a)  Any legal entity is eligible to seek approval as a sponsor of continuing education courses, provided that the entity seeking approval is either the owner of the proprietary rights to the course or has lawfully acquired from the course owner the right to seek course approval from the Board and to conduct such course.

(b)  The official name to be used by any course sponsor in connection with the offering of an approved continuing education course must clearly distinguish the sponsor from any other previously approved continuing education course sponsor.  Unless the sponsor is an auction school approved pursuant to G.S. 85B-4(d) proposing to operate continuing education courses in its own name, the official name also must clearly distinguish the sponsor from any approved auction school.  Sponsor applicants proposing to use a sponsor name which does not comply with this standard may be required to adopt a different name as a condition of approval.

(c)  Any advertisement or promotional material utilized by an approved course sponsor must include the course sponsor's official name and shall not include any other name for the sponsor.

(d)  Prospective sponsors of a course must obtain written approval from the Board to conduct such course prior to conducting the course and prior to advertising or otherwise representing that the course is or may be approved for continuing education credit in North Carolina.  No retroactive approval to conduct a course shall be granted for any reason.

(e)  A sponsor of a course must designate one person to serve as the continuing education coordinator for all Board-approved continuing education courses offered by the sponsor.  The designated coordinator shall serve as the official contact person for the sponsor and shall be responsible for the following:

(1)           Supervising the conduct of all the sponsor's Board-approved continuing education courses;

(2)           Signing the course completion certificates provided by the sponsor to licensees completing courses; and

(3)           Submitting to the Board all required rosters, reports and other information.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 85B-4(e1);

Temporary Adoption Eff. January 1, 2000;

Eff. April 1, 2001.