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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 18. Professional And Occupational Licensing
Agency 15. Virginia Board For Asbestos, Lead, And Home Inspectors
Chapter 30. Lead-Based Paint Activities Regulations
1/23/2026

18VAC15-30-400. Certificates of completion.

A. Accredited lead training programs will issue unique course completion certificates to each individual who successfully completes the course requirements. The course completion certificate must include:

1. A unique certificate number.

2. The name and address of the individual.

3. The name of the particular course that the individual completed.

4. Dates of course completion or test passage.

5. The certificate expiration date. Training certificates will expire three years from the date of course completion. If the accredited lead training program offers a proficiency test, those training certificates will expire five years from the date of course completion.

6. Name, address, and telephone number of the training provider.

7. Name and signature of the training manager and principal instructor.

B. The board will not accept training certificates of completion for initial training courses where the name of the course participant, training manager, and principal instructor are the same.

C. Course participants in a refresher training course who are both the training manager and principal instructor of a refresher training program must be monitored by another instructor if completing the program's examination for the purpose of license renewal. The monitoring individual must sign the certificate of completion as the participant's instructor. A course participant in a refresher training course who is either the training manager or the principal instructor of a training program must be monitored by the other if completing his own program's examination for the purpose of license renewal. The monitoring individual must sign the certificate of completion as the participant's instructor.

Statutory Authority

§§ 54.1-201 and 54.1-501 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 13, Issue 2, eff. November 13, 1996; amended, Virginia Register Volume 19, Issue 24, eff. October 1, 2003; Volume 31, Issue 15, eff. May 1, 2015; Volume 42, Issue 8, eff. January 2, 2026.

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