§30-17-4 Qualifications for registration. - West Virginia Statutes

§30-17-4. Qualifications for registration.

Any person desiring to be registered as a sanitarian may make application to the board on a form prescribed by the board. The board shall accept such application when submitted if accompanied by the required fees. Persons meeting the following qualifications shall be eligible for registration under this article:

(a) Graduate with a baccalaureate or higher degree from an accredited college or university.

(b) Successfully completed a sanitarian's training course of a minimum of three hundred hours approved by the board of registration within twelve months of hire, employed as a sanitarian in an official health department or allied agency for a period of not less than two years, and has passed an examination given and conducted by the board under the provisions of this article.

(c) A master's or higher degree in public health, environmental science, sanitary science, community hygiene or other science field as approved by the board of registration may be substituted for one of the required years of experience.

(d) Any person who on or before the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-two, has been registered as a sanitarian in the state of West Virginia.