20 CAR § 900-302 – Renewals

(a)
1. (1) Certificates of registration and licenses must be renewed annually before the expiration date of September 30.
2. (2) The required fees and documentation must be submitted along with each application for renewal.
(b) A renewal application accompanied by the required renewal fee and deposited with the United States Postal Service is deemed timely filed, regardless of actual date of delivery, when its envelope bears a legible postmark date that is on or before the expiration date of the document being renewed.
(c)
1. (1) A certificate or license expired for two (2) years or more cannot be renewed.
2. (2) A person whose license has been expired for two (2) years or more and who applies for a new license must take and pass another examination or examinations, unless otherwise specified herein.
3. (3) No examination is required for a license renewed within two (2) years of expiration.
(d) A certificate or license expired for less than two (2) years may be renewed by payment of a fee calculated in accordance with the following schedule:
1. (1) Expired one to ninety (1–90) days, renewal fee multiplied by one and one half (1.5);
2. (2) Expired ninety-one to three hundred sixty-five (91–365) days, renewal fee multiplied by two (2); and
3. (3) Expired three hundred sixty-six to seven hundred twenty-nine (366–729) days, renewal fee multiplied by three (3).
(e) Anyone applying for relicensure who meets the conditions established in Arkansas Code § 17-1-107 and can demonstrate that he or she passed the applicable examination or examinations with scores sufficient for licensure at the time the individual's initial license was issued shall not be required to retake the examination or examinations in order to be relicensed.