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Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 455
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION: GENERAL PROVISIONS
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F.S. 455.273
455.273 Renewal and cancellation notices.
(1) At least 90 days before the end of a licensure cycle, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation shall:
(a) Forward a licensure renewal notification to an active or inactive licensee at the licensee’s last known address of record with the department.
(b) Forward a notice of pending cancellation of licensure to a delinquent status licensee at the licensee’s last known address of record with the department.
(2) Each licensure renewal notification and each notice of pending cancellation of licensure must state conspicuously that a licensee who remains on inactive status for more than two consecutive biennial licensure cycles and who wishes to reactivate the license may be required to demonstrate the competency to resume active practice by sitting for a special purpose examination or by completing other reactivation requirements, as defined by rule of the board or the department when there is no board.
History.s. 15, ch. 94-119.