PURPOSE: This rule provides specific instructions to applicants regarding examination procedures.

1. (1) The executive director will notify applicants of the time and place examinations are to be held as soon as possible.
2. (2) Any applicant detected in seeking or giving help during the hours of the examination will be dismissed and his/her paper cancelled.

AUTHORITY: sections 334.043, RSMo 1994 and 334.125, RSMo Supp. 1995.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 150-2.020. This version of rule filed Dec. 19, 1975, effective Dec. 29, 1975. Amended: Filed Jan. 12, 1982, effective April 11, 1982. Amended: Filed June 5, 1986, effective Sept. 26, 1986. Amended: Filed July 3, 1989, effective Dec. 1, 1989. Amended: Filed April 15, 1996, effective Nov. 30, 1996. Moved to 20 CSR 2150-2.020, effective Aug. 28, 2006.

*Original authority: 334.043, RSMo 1959, amended 1981, 1983, 1993 and 334.125, RSMo 1959, amended 1993, 1995. State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts of Missouri v. De Vore, 517 SW2d 480 (Mo. App. 1975). Administrative Hearing Commission Act section 161.252, RSMo (1969) repealed the former authority of the board to conduct evidentiary hearings on the qualifications of applicants for licensure.