22 Tex. Admin. Code § 5.51 - Requirements
(a) An Applicant for Interior Design
registration by examination in Texas must meet the eligibility and application
requirements contained in §
5.33(b) and (c)
of this chapter, and successfully complete all sections of the NCIDQ
examination or a predecessor or other examination deemed equivalent by the
Council for Interior Design Qualification (CIDQ). Alternatively, prior to
December 31, 2018, an applicant may obtain Interior Design registration by
examination by successfully completing all sections of the Architectural
Registration Examination (ARE), or another examination NCARB deems equivalent
to the ARE, after fulfilling the requirements of §
1.21 and §
1.41 of this title relating to
Board approval to take the ARE for architectural registration by
examination.
(b) Each Applicant
must achieve a passing score in each division of the NCIDQ examination. Scores
from individual divisions may not be averaged to achieve a passing
score.
(c) An examination fee may
be refunded as follows:
(1) The application
fee paid to the Board is not refundable or transferable.
(2) The Board, on behalf of an examinee, may
request a refund of a portion of the examination fee paid to CIDQ for
scheduling all or a portion of the registration examination. A charge for
refund processing may be withheld by CIDQ. Refunds of examination fees are
subject to the following conditions:
(A) An
examinee, because of extreme hardship, must have been precluded from scheduling
or taking the examination or a portion of the examination. For purposes of this
subsection, extreme hardship is defined as a serious illness or accident of the
examinee or a member of the examinee's immediate family or the death of an
immediate family member. Immediate family members include the spouse,
child(ren), parent(s), and sibling(s) of the examinee. Any other extreme
hardship may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
(B) A written request for a refund based on
extreme hardship must be submitted not later than thirty (30) days after the
date the examination or portion of the examination was scheduled or intended to
be scheduled. Documentation of the extreme hardship that precluded the examinee
from scheduling or taking the examination must be submitted by the examinee as
follows:
(i) Illness: verification from a
physician who treated the illness.
(ii) Accident: a copy of an official accident
report.
(iii) Death: a copy of a
death certificate or newspaper obituary.
(C) Approval of the request and refund of the
fee or portion of the fee by CIDQ.
(3) An examination fee may not be transferred
to a subsequent examination.
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