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A licensing-prep school advertises that North Carolina requires every Life examination candidate to complete its twenty-hour prelicensing course before testing. Under current North Carolina law, is that advertising accurate?
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Why C is correct
Under the current version of G.S. 58-33-30(d)(1), the Commissioner may not require an applicant to complete any specific prelicensing course or number of hours. S.L. 2025-45 repealed the former twenty-hour requirement effective October 1, 2025, so approved prelicensing courses function only as voluntary study aids, and advertising them as legally required is wrong.
Why the other options are wrong
- A) The twenty-hour mandate was repealed effective October 1, 2025; no per-line hour requirement remains in current law.
- B) No ten-hour requirement exists in North Carolina; current law sets no hour figure at all.
- D) There is no license-history carve-out; the statute imposes no prelicensing course or hour mandate on any applicant.
Memory hook
Nobody is legally required to buy hours in NC anymore.