License Application & Instructions for Pre-License Course Providers
General Information And Instructions
There is a five hundred dollar ($500) application fee that must be submitted with this application.
The approval, if granted, shall remain in effect until October 1st of the next odd-numbered year. At that time, your school will be required to complete a renewal application in order to have your approval extended for an additional two years.
Programs presented: (a) prior to the receipt of approval, or (b) after the withdrawal or termination of approval of the school by the Board shall not count toward the licensing requirements.
An approved school must meet the following criteria in providing pre-licensing courses:
- All applicants shall provide the name and address of the school owner.
- All applicants shall provide a list of names of instructors who will be teaching the course and include evidence to indicate that these instructors have demonstrated competence in the area of home inspection education, including the instructors curriculum vitae.
- All applicants must provide a statement of objectives, which the course should achieve for its participants.
- All applicants shall provide a statement explaining how the provider intends to provide for the adequate administration of the course, including a responsible person to coordinate and administer the course and an explanation of how the applicant intends to provide for the maintenance of proper records.
- All applicants shall provide documentation verifying adequate funding for the educational course undertaken.
- All applicants shall provide a statement indicating how the course curriculum will be planned and designed.
- All applicants shall provide an evaluation form devised and used to measure the course's effectiveness.
- All applicants shall provide a statement indicating the manner in which the provider will provide its course participants a meaningful record of course completion.
- Course providers may be able to verify that their previously offered courses would have met the requirements for approval by the Board. These course provider approvals will be made retroactive to accommodate students who completed these previously offered courses prior to the beginning of licensure in Indiana (July 1, 2005). Please provide a statement and accompanying documentation to verify the date for which you believe your course curriculum would have met the requirements for approval by the Board.
- All applicants shall provide exit examination materials.
The application, when completed, will be reviewed by the Home Inspectors Licensing Board at their next scheduled meeting. If you need additional information, please feel free to contact the Board at (317) 234-3009 or by email at pla9@pla.in.gov.
