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North Dakota State Requirements

Education Requirements

Salesperson Licensing Requirements

Salesperson must be at least 18 years of age, 45 hrs of pre-licensing education required prior to issuance of license, pass examination, 15 additional hours are required to be taken within 1st year from license issue date.

  1. Licenses and the renewals thereof may be granted only to persons who bear a good reputation for honesty, truthfulness, and fair dealing and who are competent to transact the business of a real estate broker or a real estate salesperson in such manner as to safeguard the interest of the public, and whose real estate license has not been revoked in this or any other state within two years prior to date of application. To determine the competency of applicants, the commission shall prescribe and hold examinations at designated times and places.
  2. As a prerequisite for licensure, an applicant for a salesperson's license shall furnish to the commission evidence the applicant has successfully completed at least forty-five hours in courses of study approved by the commission. Within one year after initial licensure as a salesperson, the salesperson's broker shall furnish to the commission evidence of the salesperson's successful completion of fifteen postlicensure hours in courses of study approved by the commission. An applicant for a broker's license must have successfully completed an additional sixty hours in courses of study approved by the commission. An applicant for a salesperson's license may take the licensing examination before fulfillment of the prerequisite educational requirement; however, the commission may not issue a salesperson's license to an applicant unless satisfactory evidence of completion of this prerequisite educational requirement is furnished to the commission. An applicant for a broker's license must have satisfactorily fulfilled the educational requirement before taking the broker's licensing examination.

Broker Licensing Requirements

Broker must have at least 2 years of experience as a full time salesperson, 90 hours of broker level education & pass examination.

  1. Licenses and the renewals thereof may be granted only to persons who bear a good reputation for honesty, truthfulness, and fair dealing and who are competent to transact the business of a real estate broker or a real estate salesperson in such manner as to safeguard the interest of the public, and whose real estate license has not been revoked in this or any other state within two years prior to date of application. To determine the competency of applicants, the commission shall prescribe and hold examinations at designated times and places.
  2. Every applicant for a license as a real estate broker:
    • Shall have been actively engaged as a licensed real estate salesperson for a period of at least one year preceding the date of application, which, beginning July 1, 1979, is increased to two years; or
    • Shall have had experience as determined by the commission to be substantially equal to that which a licensed real estate salesperson would ordinarily receive during a period of one year, which, beginning July 1, 1979, is increased to two years.

Continuing Education Requirements

43-23-08.2. License renewal - Continuing education required.

Commencing January 1, 2000, and every two years thereafter, each applicant for renewal of a broker's or salesperson's license shall, in addition to the requirements of section 43-23-08, submit proof of participation in not less than sixteen hours of approved continuing education, six of which must be completed in the first year. If a broker or salesperson will not have been licensed two years on the date the individual is required to certify continuing education hours, the number of required hours may be reduced in accordance with rules adopted by the commission. The commission shall set standards for the approval of lectures, seminars, courses of instruction, and correspondence courses that qualify for satisfaction of this requirement, and shall maintain a current list of lectures, seminars, courses of instruction, and correspondence courses so approved. Lectures, seminars, courses of instruction, and correspondence courses may not require passing of a test to qualify for satisfaction of this requirement. Licensees shall have the option of attending an approved course of instruction in person or taking an approved correspondence course. Attendance at a course or the completion of a correspondence course must be documented in accordance with procedures established by the commission. The commission may adopt rules concerning implementation of this section pursuant to chapter 28-32.

A license may not be renewed by the commission unless the proper certification showing fulfillment of the continuing education requirements of this section and the appropriate licensing fees are submitted to the commission in accordance with section 43-23-13.1.

The commission may exempt licensees from the continuing education requirements of this section for reasons relating to the licensee's health, military service, or for other good cause. Licensees who have held a real estate license for fifteen continuous years on January 1, 1984, are exempt from the requirements of this section.

Reciprocity:

43-23-10. Nonresident brokers - Reciprocity - Consent to service.

A nonresident broker regularly engaged in the real estate business as a vocation and who maintains a definite place of business and is licensed in some other state, which offers the same privileges to the licensed brokers of this state, may not be required to maintain a place of business within this state. The commission shall recognize the license issued to a real estate broker by another state as satisfactorily qualifying the nonresident broker for license as a broker; provided, that the nonresident broker has qualified for license in the broker's own state and also that the other state permits licenses to be issued to licensed brokers in this state. Every nonresident applicant shall file an irrevocable consent that suits and actions may be commenced against such applicant in the proper court of any county of the state in which a claim for relief may arise, in which the plaintiff may reside, by the service of any process or pleading authorized by the laws of this state, on any member of the commission, or the secretary-treasurer, said consent stipulating and agreeing that such service of such process or pleading shall be taken and held in all courts to be as valid and binding as if due service had been made upon said applicant in this state. The consent must be duly acknowledged. Any service of process or pleading must be by duplicate copies, one of which must be filed in the office of the commission and the other immediately forwarded by registered mail to the last-known main office of the applicant against whom said process or pleading is directed, and no default in any such proceedings or action may be taken except upon affidavit or certificate of the commission or the secretary-treasurer, that a copy of said process or pleading was mailed to the defendant as herein required, and no judgment by default may be taken in any such action or proceeding until after thirty days from the date of mailing of such process or pleading to the nonresident defendant.

Reporting:

Case Management Procedures For Continuing Education

Certification of accreditation

A certificate of accreditation shall be granted for each course of study approved by the commission. This certificate shall remain valid for a two-year period at which time the course will be reviewed and, if approved, will continue valid for the next tow-year period unless suspended or revoked.