N.M. Admin. Code § 16.66.3.11

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 17, September 10, 2024

Section 16.66.3.11 - EXAMINATIONS

A. Licensure by training and examination: All applicants for licensure by training and examination must pass a board approved examination prior to the date of the applicant's application for licensure.

B. Licensure by experience and examination: All applicants for licensure by experience and examination must pass a board approved examination, subject to the following limitations:

(1) Evidence of the applicant's examination passage must be in writing and written by the organization or entity that administered the examination; and

(2) The examination must have been proctored and the applicant must provide evidence as to this requirement.

C. Licensure by credentials: Applicants for licensure by credentials are not required to provide the board with evidence as to prior examination passage. However, the board will consider whether the applicant's prior licensing jurisdiction requires the passage of a national examination in determining whether the prior licensing jurisdiction's standards are substantially equivalent to those in New Mexico.

D. It is the applicant's responsibility to make all arrangements to take a board approved examination.

E. The applicant shall send the applicant's examination score to the board, provided that the examination score must be in a document originally written by the organization or entity that administered the examination.

N.M. Admin. Code § 16.66.3.11

Adopted by New Mexico Register, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, December 15, 2020, eff. 1/15/2021, Amended by New Mexico Register, Volume XXXII, Issue 23, December 14, 2021, eff. 1/14/2022, Amended by New Mexico Register, Volume XXXV, Issue 08, April 23, 2024, eff. 4/23/2024