The grace period for your license is 6 months. When you renew during the grace you are charged a late fee of $10 per month. After the grace period, yet still within 4 years of expiration, you are only required to provide either proof of 24 PDHS or an active out-of-state license. If more than 4 years have passed since expiration, then 5 references are additionally required.
How to Renew (Active License)
I. Renewal Application (CORE)
II. Twenty-Four (24) Hours of Continuing Education ("CE")
NOTE: At the time of renewal, you are not required to submit your continuing education records, unless you are audited by the Board. Continuing education records must be retained for a period of four (4) years, and copies must be furnished to the Board for audit verification purposes within thirty (30) days of the Board’s request.
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1. Engineer, Interior Designer, or Landscape Architect:
- a. Seeking renewal for the first time after initial registration, must obtain twelve (12) hours of CE during the two (2) years immediately following initial registration. Seven (7) hours must address health, safety, and welfare issues and technical competency.
- b. Seeking renewal for each two-year period thereafter must obtain twenty-four (24) hours of CE. Thirteen (13) hours must address health, safety, and welfare issues and technical competency.
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2. Architects:
- a. Seeking renewal for the first time after initial registration, must provide twelve (12) hours of PDH. All twelve (12) hours must be completed in health, safety, and welfare subjects.
- b. Seeking renewal for each two-year period thereafter must obtain twenty-four (24) hours of CE. All twenty-four (24) hours must be completed in health, safety, and welfare subjects.
III. Fee, $140
If you are licensed in Tennessee through reciprocity, please see information below in regards to continuing education requirements:
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0120-05-.13 RECIPROCITY.
(1) If a registrant resides in or has principal place of business in a state or territory of the United
States, or another country, that has established mandatory continuing education
requirements for architects, engineers, landscape architects or interior designers, and that
registrant has met the continuing education requirements of the registrant’s home jurisdiction
and is in good standing in that jurisdiction, then that registrant shall be deemed to have met
the continuing education requirements of Tennessee. Documentation that the registrant is in
good standing in the registrant’s home jurisdiction must be provided at the Board’s request. If
the registrant is exempt from the continuing education requirements in the registrant’s home
jurisdiction, the registrant must meet the requirements of Tennessee unless the registrant
qualifies for an exemption in Tennessee.
(2) This rule shall apply only to the acceptance of professional development hours for continuing
education and shall not be construed to apply to the registration by comity of architect,
engineer, landscape architect or interior designer applicants from another state, territory of
the United States or country.
How to Renew (Inactive License)
I. Renewal Application (CORE)
II. Fee, $140
How to Renew (Retired License)
I. Renewal Application (CORE)
II. Fee, $0