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	Subject - Continuing Education kbsparky In my area working on Delmarva, I am required to take 10 hours of continuing education in order to renew my Master's License. License renewal occurs every 2 years. Most of the time, I will take Code update classes, with the NEC being republished every 3 years. This helps to ensure that license holders are up-to-date on the latest codes. Other classes being offered are along the lines of Grounding and Bonding, Code calculations, Pools and Spas, Fire Alarms, etc. In all, I have to submit my continuing education certificates to at least 3 licensing agencies, requiring me to only take courses that are accepted by all 3. This can be a challenge at times. Do any of you have similar requirements to maintain your licenses? FWIW, I have to renew 12 Master Licenses in my working area every year or 2. Nine of these are county licenses in Maryland, and the other 3 are State Licenses from Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. This total does not count the corporation and business licenses required by the various jurisdictions. -Ken Ryan_J Utah requires 16 hours evey two years. That makes it nice for seminar instructors like me! :) kbsparky Wow. 16 hours. Do you offer courses of 4 hours, or 8 hour marathons? It's hard enough to set aside time for our required 5 hour courses every year. electroman Minnesota has 16 hours required every two years. In my opinion it should be more but some of the classes that are offered are so bad, it wouldn't matter if it was 100 hours a year. There was a class held last week near here that the instructor read word for word for sixteen hours out of the 2005 Analysis of Changes book with no commentary. There were many upset people. The classes that I've taken which are real yawners are when the course tries to cover the entire code book in eight or even sixteen hours. The best classes I've taken are given by instructors (usually inspectors or people with an inside track to the code making process) who can give reasons or insight to changes. Like with anything else, you get what you pay for. Ryan_J I do both. Most people prefer just an 8 hour seminar on a Saturday. I am teaching next Saturday for 8, and I am also teaching March 2nd & 3rd for 4 hours each.