State RegulationsNC specificDifficulty 3/5
During a single biennial compliance period, a North Carolina producer completes a 3-credit ethics course and later repeats the identical course. Under North Carolina continuing education rules, how is the repeated course treated?
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Why A is correct
Under 11 NCAC 6A .0802(e), a licensee may not receive ICECs for the same course more than once in a single biennial compliance period. Under 11 NCAC 6A .0802(f), a course counts only for the compliance period in which it was completed, with no carryover, and under .0802(g) the licensee must keep records for 5 years. Ethics is required only once per period, documentation does not override the duplicate-course bar, and there is no rollover of excess or repeated hours.
Why the other options are wrong
- B: Ethics is required only once per biennial period — 3 of the 24 ICECs under 11 NCAC 6A .0802(a) — so there is no second-ethics basis for counting the repeat.
- C: 11 NCAC 6A .0802(f) bars carryover: courses count only for the compliance period in which they are completed, so the repeat cannot roll into the next period.
- D: Filing certificates does not affect the duplicate-course restriction in 11 NCAC 6A .0802(e); credit is barred regardless of the documentation the provider submits.
Memory hook
Same course twice in one biennium pays once.