KRS 223.030: Qualifications for registration -- Inactive status for previous registrants.

(1) An applicant for registration shall file with the cabinet a written application for

registration and submit evidence that the applicant:

(a) Has completed at least an app roved four (4) year high school or the

equivalent; and

(b) Has completed a four (4) year degree from a college or university, with a

minor or twenty -four (24) semester hours in environmental health, biological

science, or physical science.

(2) An applicant shall be required to pass a written examination in those subjects that

the cabinet prescribes. Written examinations may be supplemented by an oral

examination. Upon successfully passing these examinations, the applicant shall be

issued a registration as an environmental health specialist or sanitarian.

(3) Those persons previously registered by the cabinet and not engaged in

environmental health practice in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, but desiring to

maintain the privilege to use the designation of envir onmental health specialist or

"E.H.S." and sanitarian or "R.S." may apply and be granted inactive status by the

cabinet in accordance with administrative regulations of the cabinet. Inactive status

shall be renewed at least every two (2) years, and those p ersons granted inactive

status shall not be governed by continuing education provisions contained in this

chapter. A registered environmental health specialist or sanitarian on inactive status

may petition the cabinet for renewal of registration. In that c ase the registrant shall

meet the requirements of this chapter before being reclassified to active status.