SENATE BILL 98

49th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2009

INTRODUCED BY

Mark Boitano

AN ACT

RELATING TO LICENSING OF REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND ASSOCIATE BROKERS; ELIMINATING THE EXEMPTION FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR CERTAIN LICENSEES SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. Section 61-29-4.1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1985, Chapter 89, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:

     "61-29-4.1. ADDITIONAL POWERS OF COMMISSION--CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS--MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.--The commission shall adopt rules providing for continuing education courses in selling, leasing or managing residential, commercial and industrial property as well as courses in basic real estate law and practice and other courses prescribed by the commission. The regulations shall require that every licensee [except licensees who are sixty-five years of age or older and who have a minimum of twenty years' continuously licensed experience in the selling, leasing or managing of real property], as a condition of [his] license renewal, shall successfully complete thirty classroom hours of instruction every three years in courses approved by the commission. The rules may prescribe areas of specialty or expertise and may require that part of the classroom instruction be devoted to courses in the area of a licensee's specialty or expertise."

     Section 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is January 1, 2010.

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