1. (a) The board will grant a full refund of the examination fee if the applicant withdraws from the examination and notifies the board in writing prior to the deadline for applying for the examination (February 28/29 or August 31).
2. (b) The board will grant a full refund of the examination fee to any applicant who fails to meet the minimum requirements to take the examination, and the board will grant a refund of one-half of the total fee paid per part by the applicant who submits an incomplete application for the examination and does not remedy the deficiency, and as a result is not permitted to take the examination.
3. (c) The board will grant a refund of one-half of the total fee paid per part by the applicant who withdraws after the filing deadline because of extreme hardship.
4. (d) Extreme hardship for refund purposes shall be defined as a serious illness of the candidate or member of the immediate family or death of an immediate family member. Any other extreme hardship situation will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the board.
5. (e) All requests for refunds based on extreme hardships must be in writing and provide documentation of the extreme hardship requiring withdrawal from the examination. The requests for refunds for the May examination must be received by the board on or before the 15th of November following the examination. The request for refund for the November examination must be received by the board on or before the 15th of May following the examination.
6. (f) No examination fee will be transferred to a subsequent examination.
7. (g) The filing fee paid for an initial examination application is nonrefundable.
8. (h) Fees received from an applicant for a reciprocal equivalency examination are nonrefundable.

Source Note:The provisions of this §511.76 adopted to be effective November 1, 1989, 14 TexReg 5549; amended to be effective October 30, 1991, 16 TexReg 5827; amended to be effective December 15, 1993, 18 TexReg 8910.