New York State Home Inspection
Professional Licensing ACT
Home Inspection Professional Licensing ACT, Aricle 12-B,
Real Property Law
issued by using NYS Department of State Division of Licensing Services
Rules and Regulations Title 19 NYCRR in Home Inspection Professional Licensing ACT,
Aricle 12-B, Real Property Law
Home Inspection Professional Licensing ACT, §444
Rules and Regulations Title 19 NYCRR
Part 197 Home InspectorsSubpart
197-1 Business Practices and Standards
197-2 Home Inspection Qualifying Courses
Subpart 197-three Home Inspection Continuing Education Courses
Subpart 197-4 Code of Ethics and Regulations for Home Inspectors
Subpart 197-five Standards of Practice for Home Inspectors
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License duration, renewal and fees
1. Home inspector licenses and renewals thereof will be issued for a duration of years,
besides that the secretary may also, a good way to stagger the expiration date thereof,
provide that those licenses first issued or renewed after the powerful date of this segment
shall expire or end up void on a date fixed by way of the secretary, no longer sooner than six
months nor later than twentynine months after the date of trouble. No renewal of a license
shall be issued except the applicant has effectively completed a course of persevering with
training authorized by the secretary. (24 Hours)
2. The secretary shall acquire a charge of hundred fifty dollars for the first software for a
license and the license as a domestic inspector. The secretary shall accumulate a rate of a
hundred dollars to resume a home in- spector license. The secretary shall collect an exam
charge of 50 greenbacks. All costs and any fines imposed with the aid of the secretary
pursuant to this article shall be deposited in the commercial enterprise and licensing
offerings account hooked up pursuant to section 90- seventy of the nation finance law.
Home Inspector fundamentals for being licensed
Have a excessive school diploma or a GED
140 hours Course which has forty hours of apprentice and a hundred of study room or
one hundred Home Inspections with an authorized NY State Inspector
Pass the exam
Pay the charge
What kind of written reports is described in Home Inspection Professional Licensing ACT,
§444
Written file three sorts allowed, one that is narrative (offers written explanations), or a test
listing (checked packing containers multiple choice descriptions) or a combination of
narrative and checked packing containers.
Report after inspection need to be furnished to client through what number of days
FIVE enterprise days
Client definition
"Client" means any individual who engages or seeks to engage the services of a home
inspector for the motive of acquiring inspection of and written report approximately the
circumstance of a residential building.
,"Department" definition
"Department" way the department of kingdom.
"Home Inspector" definition
"Home inspector" method a person certified as a home inspector pursuant to the provisions
of this text.
"Home Inspection"
"Home inspection" means the procedure through which a domestic inspector observes and
offers a written record of the systems and components of a residential constructing such as
but no longer restrained to heating machine, cooling device, plumbing system, electric
gadget, structural components, foundation, roof, masonry structure, outdoors and interior
components or some other related residential building component as endorsed or required
by using the branch thru regulation to offer a consumer with objective records about the
circumstance of the residential building. The domestic inspector shall genuinely perceive
inside the written document which systems and components of the residential constructing
have been found. A home inspection shall not encompass an inspection for radon or pests.
Definition of "Person"
"Person" means an man or woman, company, organisation, partnership, restrained legal
responsibility agency or organization.
Define Residential Building"
"Residential constructing" means a structure consisting of one to 4 residing units and their
garages and carport but shall no longer consist of such a shape newly constructed or now
not formerly occupied as a dwelling unit.
Define "Secretary"
"Secretary" way the secretary of the branch of country.
, 444-d. License necessities for domestic inspectors.
No individual shall behavior or constitute that he or she has the capability to conduct a
domestic inspection for compensation unless such person is:
1. Licensed as home inspector pursuant to this article; or
2. Someone regulated by using the country or a political subdivision thereof as an architect
who is acting in the scope of his or her profession; or
3. A person regulated through the country or a political subdivision thereof as an engineer
who is acting within the scope of his or her career; or
four. A person who's hired as a code enforcement authentic with the aid of the kingdom or a
political subdivision thereof while acting within the scope of that gov- ernment employment;
or
5. Someone making domestic inspections for the motive of meeting the requirements of
segment four hundred forty-four-e of this article to qualify for licensure as a domestic
inspector.
§ 444-e. Qualifications for licensure.
1. An applicant for a license as a domestic inspector shall:
(a) have efficiently finished excessive college or its equivalent; and
(b) (i) have correctly finished a direction of look at of not less than a hundred and forty hours
approved with the aid of the secretary, of which as a minimum forty hours shall had been in
the shape of unpaid subject based inspections in the presence of and under the direct
supervision of a home inspector licensed via the kingdom of New York or a expert engineer
or architect regulated by way of the nation of New York who oversees and takes full
obligation for the inspection and any file provided to a patron; or (grandfather clause)
(ii) have executed now not much less than a hundred domestic inspections inside the
presence of and below the direct supervision of a domestic in- spector licensed via the
kingdom of New York or a professional engineer or architect regulated with the aid of the
nation of New York who oversees and takes complete responsibility for the inspection and
any record provided to a patron; and
(c) have exceeded the National Home Inspector exam; and
(d) pay the applicable charges.
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