21 NCAC 22A .0503. SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS AND FEES

(a)  The Board shall accept a digital image of a signed affidavit or other document required as part of an application as the original when submitted electronically in conjunction with the electronic application.

(b)  If  an applicant submits an incomplete application, the application shall be classified as "abandoned by the applicant" on the 10th business day following electronic transmission of the application to the Board if the application is not  a duly made application, as defined in 21 NCAC 22A .0401.  The Board shall not apply any fee paid or document submitted for the abandoned application to any other application.  It is the responsibility of the applicant and the sponsor, if any, to ensure that all supplemental documents requested in the application are submitted within 10 business days if all documents are not electronically submitted with the application.  This Rule does not extend an application deadline set forth in any other rule of this Chapter.

(c)  The exam registration deadline is 45 days prior to the examination date. Late registration is grounds for denying an applicant admission to an examination, based on proximity to examination date, availability of space in the examination, and the applicant or the applicant's sponsor's past history of compliance with the Board's rules.  An applicant denied admission to an examination due to late registration shall be registered for the next scheduled examination, if otherwise eligible.

(d)  No later than 10 business days after an apprentice has held a valid apprentice registration certificate for 365 days, the apprentice shall make application to take the next scheduled licensing examination.  All apprentices shall reapply for a license by examination within the time prescribed in Paragraph (c) of this Rule each time they take and fail to pass the licensing examination.

(e)  No later than 20 days after the date printed on the Official Notice of Examination Results, a registered apprentice who failed to pass the qualifying examination shall make application to renew the apprentice certificate or the sponsor shall submit written notice to the Board that the apprenticeship is being terminated by the current expiration date of the certificate.

(f)  The Board shall deny a late duly made application, except as set forth in Paragraph (c) of this Rule.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 25-3-506; 93D-3(c); 93D-5; 93D-9;

Eff. April 23, 1976;

Amended Eff. August 1, 2012; February 1, 1996; January 1, 1992; May 1, 1988;

Recodified from 21 NCAC 22F .0103 Eff. May 1, 2013;

Amended Eff. September 1, 2013.