Rule 16 – Skills Examinations for Provisional and Renewal Applicants
Effective January 31, 2016

(a)	To be eligible to take any of the skills examinations, an applicant must complete and submit POST Form 3 – Application for Provisional Certification or POST Form 4 – Application for Renewal of Basic Certification along with a law enforcement agency check, purchase order, certified check, or money order in the prescribed amount for each examination to be taken (prior to the day of the exam).

(b)	Refunds of skills examination fees shall be provided only if requested more than twenty (20) days prior to the scheduled examination, unless the examination is postponed or canceled, or under such other exceptional circumstances as may be determined by the Director.

(c)	Any applicant failing a skills examination may retake the examination, with the payment of an additional examination fee.  Any person failing any skills examination three (3) times must successfully complete the skills training for that particular skill in a Colorado POST-approved Basic or Reserve academy before he or she may be certified.

(d)	Any protest or challenge to an examination or its administration must be made in writing within ten (10) days of the examination.  The Director shall issue his decision in writing within twenty (20) working days.  The decision of the Director shall be final, unless appealed to the Board in accordance with Rule 3(b).