Training, insurance, fees, renewal and continuing competency 22
A college course taken for academic credit counts as how many hours for each semester hour?COMAR 09.36.08.03C
A licensee earns 40 hours in one term. May the extra 10 count toward the next term?COMAR 09.36.08.02C
A licensee moves. How soon must the Commission be told of the new address in writing?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-4A-03
After a license expires, how long does its holder have to apply for reinstatement?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-3A-08
An initial license is denied. Within how long must the applicant ask in writing for a hearing?COMAR 09.36.04.02A
At most how many hours in one subject matter area count toward a renewal?COMAR 09.36.08.02C
The Commission mails a licensee a letter that asks for a response. How long does the licensee have to answer in writing?COMAR 09.36.01.02A
Does the continuing professional competency requirement apply to the first renewal of a license?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-3A-07(e)
For how long is a Maryland home inspector license renewed?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-3A-07(c)
How many hours of continuing professional competency does a renewal applicant need for each 2-year term?COMAR 09.36.08.02A
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Training, insurance, fees, renewal and continuing competency, continued
How many hours of on-site training must an applicant complete?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-3A-03(1)
How many hours on home inspection report writing must a renewing licensee complete in each cycle?COMAR 09.36.08.02B
How much credit does a licensee earn for each hour of a first-time presentation of a qualifying program?COMAR 09.36.08.03E
The liability policy is being cancelled. Who must tell the Commission, and when?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-4A-04(d)
What is the license application fee?COMAR 09.36.03.01B
What is the original license fee, paid once an applicant has qualified?COMAR 09.36.03.01B
What is the smallest general liability policy § 16-4A-04 allows a licensee to hold?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-4A-04(a)
What share of the required hours may be earned outside a classroom setting?COMAR 09.36.08.02D
When may a licensee undertake to provide home inspection services?COMAR 09.36.04.01
Which examination does § 16-3A-03 tie to the training course?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-3A-03(1)
Which is part of the evidence for a license by reciprocity under § 16-3A-04(b)?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-3A-04(b)
Which reason may excuse a renewal applicant who has not finished the required hours?COMAR 09.36.08.05
The report, records, Code of Ethics and general standards 20
A brokerage offers a home inspector a share of its profit on the inspections it refers. What does the Code of Ethics say?COMAR 09.36.06.02A
A conflict of interest with a client appears unavoidable. What must the home inspector do?COMAR 09.36.06.04B
A home inspector also offers the client a radon test. What must the client be told?COMAR 09.36.06.03
According to the required disclosure, whose home inspections are recognized as valid under a real estate contract?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-4A-01(a)(4)
During the retention period a licensee is told the inspection is involved in litigation. What happens to the period?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-4A-05(b)
For how long after an inspection may a Maryland home inspector not offer to repair the defects it disclosed?COMAR 09.36.06.02B
For how long must a licensee keep each contract, report and its supporting data?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-4A-05(a)
In what type must the required disclosure in a Maryland home inspection report be printed?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-4A-01(a)
May a home inspector be paid by two interested parties for the same service on the same property?COMAR 09.36.06.02A
May a licensee write the report from photographs a helper took, without going to the property?COMAR 09.36.07.02D
The Minimum Standards of Practice conflict with another State or federal requirement. Which does the home inspector follow?COMAR 09.36.07.02B
Must a Maryland home inspector operate a smart home system during an inspection?COMAR 09.36.07.03E
No delivery date was set in a written agreement. How soon must the report reach the client?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-4A-01(b)
On what must an opinion that a home inspector expresses be based?COMAR 09.36.06.01D
The report's required disclosure says the results make no representation about what?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-4A-01(a)(4)
What does COMAR 09.36.06.02 say about an opinion of the inspected property's market value?COMAR 09.36.06.02B
What does COMAR 09.36.07.02 say a home inspection is NOT intended to be?COMAR 09.36.07.02D
When must a limit on the licensee's liability for damages from the report be agreed?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-4A-01(c)
Which circumstance lifts the bar on disclosing results that the client has not approved for release?COMAR 09.36.06.02A
Which of these must the written report state?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-4A-01(a)
Complaints, hearings and penalties: §§ 16-601 to 16-707 14
After due notice, the licensee does not appear at the hearing. What may the Commission do?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-602(g)
After how long from the date of the home inspection report may the Commission summarily dismiss a complaint?COMAR 09.36.01.01
An applicant has an old felony conviction. Which fact must the Commission consider?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-701.1(c)
How is notice of a hearing sent to the individual, and how far ahead?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-602(d)
How long after a hearing board files its decision may the Commission or a member file an exception?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-211(d)
Instead of or besides a suspension, the Commission may fine a home inspector up to how much per violation?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-701.1(b)
May the Commission impose a civil penalty on an unlicensed person who violates Title 16?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-707(a)
No exception is filed in time. What is the hearing board's decision then?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-211(d)
What form must a complaint from someone outside the Commission take?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-601(b)
What is the longest imprisonment for a criminal violation of Title 16?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-706(a)
What must the Commission do with a written complaint that an unauthorized person has provided home inspection services?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-209(c)
Which factor must the Commission weigh in setting a penalty under § 16-701.1?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-701.1(b)
Which of these is a ground for suspending a home inspector license under § 16-701.1?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-701.1(a)
Who sits on the Home Inspector Hearing Board?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-210.1(b)
The Commission and who needs a license: §§ 16-101 to 16-220, 16-3A-01 12
A majority of the Commission is present, but only one home inspector member. Is there a quorum?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-204(a)
After how many consecutive 3-year terms must a Commission member step down?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-202(e)
An inspector walks a buyer through a house and gives only spoken comments. Is that a home inspection under Maryland law?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-101(i)
The Commission elects a real estate appraiser as chairman. From which members must the vice chairman come?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-203(a)
How many of the Commission's members are licensed home inspectors?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-202(a)(2)
The Maryland Commission that licenses home inspectors has how many seats?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-202(a)
Maryland home inspector licenses are issued by which State body?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-101(h)
May a Maryland home inspection cover the roof alone?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-101(i)
What must the Commission adopt by regulation for licensed home inspectors?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-208(a)
When is a Commission member considered to have resigned?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-202(f)
Who may evaluate part of a house for pay without a home inspector license?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-3A-01(b)
Who may use the title "licensed home inspector" in Maryland?Md. Code, Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 16-705.1
How this list was compiled: Annotated Code of Maryland, Business Occupations and Professions Article, Title 16 (the General Assembly's statute pages, https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gbo§ion=16-101&enactments=True&archived=False), and the Code of Maryland Regulations, Title 09, Subtitle 36, Home Inspectors, chapters 01 and 03 to 08 (https://regs.maryland.gov/us/md/exec/comar/09.36, the Division of State Documents' Library of Maryland Regulations), both read on October 16, 2026. The Commission's own pages at the Maryland Department of Labor (https://www.labor.maryland.gov/license/reahi/) were read the same day. Each question names its section and links to it. Licence: Own work. Every question, wrong choice and explanation was written for this site from the text of the statute and the regulations. Nothing comes from an examination, a course provider, a prep course or a question pool.
How it works
This unofficial Maryland home inspector license practice test asks what state law says: 68 of our own questions on Title 16 of the Business Occupations and Professions Article and COMAR 09.36. Not affiliated with the Maryland Department of Labor.
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What the questions cover
Who needs a license and what the Commission is. Then the 72-hour course, insurance, fees, renewal and the 30 hours of continuing competency; the written report with its 14-point disclosure, record keeping and the Code of Ethics; and complaints, the Home Inspector Hearing Board and penalties.
What is left out
How building systems work and fail, which the national examination asks. From the Minimum Standards of Practice only Maryland's general rules appear, such as being on site, not the system-by-system lists.
The report's disclosure is printed in 14-point bold type and carries four statements set out in § 16-4A-01.
With no date agreed in writing, the report is due within 7 business days after the inspection (§ 16-4A-01).
Each contract, report and its supporting data is kept for 5 years from delivery to the client (§ 16-4A-05).
Questions and answers
What exam does Maryland require for a home inspector license?
The National Home Inspector Examination. Section 16-3A-03 ties it to the 72-hour training course, and the Commission's exam page says an applicant must successfully complete it. Maryland writes no home inspector examination of its own.
How do you become a home inspector in Maryland?
Complete a 72-hour on-site training course that requires passing the national examination, hold a high school diploma or its equivalent, carry at least $150,000 of general liability insurance, apply on the Commission's form, and pay the $50 application fee and the $325 license fee.
How long is a Maryland home inspector license good for?
Two years. Renewal costs $325 and, after the first renewal, takes 30 hours of continuing professional competency, including 2 hours on report writing and 2 on the minimum standards of practice (§ 16-3A-07, COMAR 09.36.08.02).
Does Maryland require home inspectors to be licensed?
Yes. Under § 16-3A-01 an individual must be licensed by the Commission before providing home inspection services in the State. Plumbers, electricians, engineers and other listed licensees are outside the title while acting within the scope of their own licenses.