33-30-02-04. Qualifications and requirements for licensure as an environmental health practitioner.

1. An applicant shall complete an application for licensure and pay the required application fee.

2. An applicant shall have received a baccalaureate degree that includes at least thirty semester or forty-five quarter credits in a physical, chemical, or biological science, or a degree beyond baccalaureate in environmental health or in a physical, chemical, or biological science.

3. The applicant shall pass the national registered environmental health specialist/registered sanitarian (REHS/RS) examination administered by the national environmental health association or equivalent. An applicant meeting the licensure requirements in subsections 1 and 2 who has not yet passed the environmental health REHS/RS examination is considered board eligible. An individual who is board eligible may work in the field of environmental health but such work must be under the direction and supervision of a licensed environmental health practitioner. An individual who is board eligible may work under a licensed environmental health practitioner for no more than a total of five years after which the individual may work in the field of environmental health only after passing the national REHS/RS examination. An environmental health practitioner licensed prior to January 1, 1993, is exempt from the examination requirement.

History: Effective February 1, 1988; amended effective January 1, 1993; May 1, 2004; January 1, 2026.

General Authority: NDCC 43-43-04

Law Implemented: NDCC 43-43-04