New Mexico Register / Volume XXX, Issue 20 / October 29, 2019

This is an amendment to 16.64.6 NMAC, Sections 8 and 10, effective 11/1/2019.

16.64.6.8 GENERAL PROVISIONS:

A. Requests for approval of continuing education activities shall be submitted to the board on a form prescribed by the board. No license renewal shall be issued without board action if there exists any question by the board administrator as to the acceptance of a particular continuing education activity. The burden shall be on the licensee to ascertain from the board if a continuing education activity is acceptable, and to provide proof of completion of the continuing education activity for the renewal period.

B. 10 hours of continuing education, including two hours of ethics, shall equal one continuing education unit (CEU).

C. Regardless of what part of the year a person becomes licensed, there shall be no reduction or pro-rating of continuing education hours required for the next renewal period; provided however, that any person who was first licensed during the same renewal period as he or she graduated from an accredited school of funeral service education shall not be required to earn continuing education for the next renewal.

D. Any person who holds more than one license issued by the board may use the same continuing education hours for renewal of both licenses without having to earn separate continuing education hours for each license renewal.

[9/14/1988...9/26/1993; 16.64.6.8 NMAC - Rn & A, 16 NMAC 64.6.8, 9/15/2001; A, 4/2/2010; A, 11/1/2019]

16.64.6.10 LIMITATIONS:

A. The amount of continuing education credit the board will recognize for any activity will be at the sole discretion of the board, provided however, that the board will grant credit for activities offered by any approved provider of continuing education subject to the limitation imposed in Subsection B of 16.64.6.10 NMAC.

B. No more than four hours {0.4 CEU} of continuing education credit shall be granted in any renewal period for activities as outlined in Subsection C of 16.64.6.9 NMAC.

C. Upon application for renewal of a license, the applicant shall furnish evidence of having completed continuing education hours to the following extent.

(1) Funeral service practitioners shall be required to complete 10 hours, two of which must be in ethics for a total of {1.0 CEU}.

(2) Funeral service interns who are allowed to practice under the general supervision of a funeral service practitioner in any category shall be required to complete 10 hours, two of which must be in ethics for a total of {1.0 CEU}.

(3) Direct disposers shall be required to complete 10 hours, two of which must be in ethics for a total of {1.0 CEU}.

[11/21/1986...9/26/1993; 16.64.6.10 NMAC - Rn & A, 16 NMAC 64.6.10, 9/15/2001; A, 8/8/2012; A, 11/1/2019]

HISTORY OF 16.64.6 NMAC:

Pre-NMAC History: The material in this part was derived from that previously filed with the State Records Center and Archives:

Regulation No. 6, Continuing Education, 8/15/1988.

Regulation No. 6, Continuing Education, 8/28/1990.

Regulation 6, Continuing Education, 4/15/1991.

Reg. 10, Continuing Education, 8/27/1993.

History of Repealed Material: [RESERVED]