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Real Estate Commission declines to waive continuing-education penalty; legal counsel says board authority limited
Summary
The Real Estate Commission (Department of Consumer Protection) declined at the meeting to grant relief from recently applied continuing-education penalty fees and was told by legal counsel that the board’s waiver authority over legislatively imposed penalties is limited and must be verified.
Two licensees asked the Real Estate Commission (Department of Consumer Protection) to waive or rebate recently applied penalties tied to late continuing-education (CE) completion.
Francine Brown told the commission she missed the CE deadline after her brother’s death in October 2024 and asked for relief from what she described as an “exorbitant” penalty tied to late CE completion. “I had a death in the family...it has affected me, and I wasn't able to take the continuing ed classes in a timely fashion,” Brown said. Brown said she completed the CE online and sought only relief from the additional CE penalty, not the standard late renewal fee for a license.
Commission members and staff said the CE late-penalty and late-renewal fees are…
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