Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 625A - Environmental Health Specialists
NRS 625A.115 - Environmental health specialist trainee: Qualifications for provisional registration; expiration and extension of provisional registration; regulations.

1. To engage in the practice of environmental health as an environmental health specialist trainee, a person must file with the Board an application for a provisional registration as an environmental health specialist trainee not later than 30 days after the date on which the person initially becomes employed in a position in which he or she receives training in environmental health.
2. Upon application and payment of the fees required pursuant to NRS 625A.130, the Board may issue a provisional registration as an environmental health specialist trainee to a person who:
(a) Meets the educational requirements for registration as an environmental health specialist set forth in subsection 1 of NRS 625A.110;
(b) Is employed in a position in which he or she receives training in environmental health under the direct supervision of a registered environmental health specialist; and
(c) Is in the process of obtaining the 2 years of experience in the practice of environmental health required for eligibility for registration as an environmental health specialist pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 625A.110.
3. A provisional registration of a person as an environmental health specialist trainee expires 1 year after the date on which the registration was issued. A provisional registration may be renewed not more than twice.
4. If the person has met all requirements to be issued a registration as an environmental health specialist other than passing the examination required pursuant to NRS 625A.120, the Board may, upon a showing of good cause, grant the person a 1-year extension of the person’s provisional registration as an environmental health specialist trainee before the person must pass the examination. A request for such an extension must be submitted by the person in writing and received by the Board at least 60 days before the date on which the person’s provisional registration as an environmental health specialist trainee expires.
5. The Board may adopt regulations providing for the manner in which a provisional registration as an environmental health specialist trainee may be converted to a registration as an environmental health specialist.
(Added to NRS by 2005, 1986; A 2019, 2120)

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