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       Property Managers have to pass competancy test!
   DIR By: Giggles
       Date: October 2, 2013, 6:37 pm
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       Connecticut Now Requiring Condo Property Managers To Pass
       Competancy Tests
       October 2, 2013   Atty George Coppolo
       Connecticut state laws, for the first time, requires Connecticut
       condo property managers to take educational courses and pass
       examinations to allow them to continue working as a property
       manager.
       Property managers for Condominium Associations and other types
       of Common Interest Communities were already required to register
       with the state Department of Consumer Protection.
       A recently enacted law (PA 12-113) imposes new requirements on
       those who have already registered as community association
       managers and those who wish to register. The purpose of this act
       is to try to ensure that managers are sufficiently knowledgeable
       to provide good service to associations and unit owners.
       The Act requires that any person issued an initial certificate
       of registration on or after October 1, 2012, must within a year
       following the date the registration was issued successfully
       complete a nationally recognized course on community association
       management and pass the National Board of Certification for
       Community Association Managers’ Certified Manager of Community
       Associations examination, or a similar examination as may be
       prescribed by the DCP commissioner by regulation.
       The Act requires that anyone holding a certificate of
       registration issued before October 1, 2012, to successfully
       complete, on or before October 1, 2014, a nationally recognized
       course on community association management. Those who have held
       the certificate for fewer than 10 years must also, by October 1,
       2014, pass the National Board of Certification for Community
       Association Managers’ Certified Manager of Community
       Associations examination, or a similar examination as may be
       prescribed by the regulations adopted by the DCP commissioner.
       The Act requires DCP, with the Real Estate Commission’s advice
       and assistance, to adopt regulations, concerning any examination
       required for certification and the approval of schools,
       institutions or organizations offering courses in current
       practices and laws concerning community association management
       and the content of such courses.
       The new act has some teeth. It  authorizes the Real Estate
       Commission to revoke, suspend or refuse to issue or renew any
       certificate of registration as a community association manager
       or place a registrant on probation or issue a letter of
       reprimand for failing to comply with these educational
       requirements.
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