My ECC-Rater Was Suspended or Decertified: Is My Test Still Valid?
Often yes, because timing decides. Information submitted while a rater is suspended or decertified is invalid for permit compliance, but a provider may keep and rely on what the rater submitted while in good standing. A test flagged as conflicted is a separate matter: it is invalidated, and the provider must tell you.
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Three things that sound alike
Suspension and decertification are the third and fourth steps of the provider’s discipline ladder, and neither takes effect until the appeal right is used up or lapses. Conflicted data is different: anything a rater gathers while holding a disqualifying conflict of interest counts as conflicted, however accurate.
The timing rule
Section 10-103.3(g) bars a suspended or decertified rater from submitting anything. What such a rater submits while barred is invalid and cannot support permit compliance, and a provider may not accept data from an entity that was prohibited when it was gathered or submitted. The same rule says nothing stops a provider from storing or relying on information submitted while the rater was in good standing. On the wording of the rule, a CF3R registered before the suspension took effect is not wiped out by it.
What the provider must tell you
- When it verifies that data is conflicted, it flags the data and informs the homeowner, the rater, the rater company, the building department and the Commission which tests are invalidated.
- After a notice of violation, the rater company or independent rater must notify the affected homeowner and show proof to the provider.
- A decertification is reported to the Commission within 24 hours, and the Commission tells every provider to suspend that rater’s registry access.
The remedy and who pays
A flawed test is fixed with an additional test for the party who hired the rater. Under a notice of violation, the rater bears the owner’s cost for the original test and any retest the violation requires, and the company helps with any refund.
Telling the building department
The department is among those the provider informs, but bring the notice and the new registered CF3R to the final inspection yourself. The mistake to avoid is assuming every earlier certificate from that rater has failed. Related pages: rater independence, when the rater cannot be found and how to complain. If the CF3R is missing at final, see why it happens. See our residential reports.
Common Title 24 Questions
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Frequently Asked Questions
No rule says so. The provider may rely on information submitted while the rater was in good standing. Invalid is data submitted while barred, or data flagged as conflicted.
The provider must inform the homeowner, the rater, the rater company, the building department and the Commission, naming the tests invalidated.
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