(a) To be eligible for a home inspector license, an applicant shall:
(1) Have successfully completed high school or its equivalent;
(2) Have earned a home inspector intern permit and performed not less than one hundred home inspections in accordance with subsection (c) of section 20-493b ;
(3) Have passed an oral, written or electronic competency examination administered by the department; and
(4) Paid a fee of two hundred dollars.
(b) During the first three hundred sixty-five days following July 1, 2001, the board shall issue to an individual, upon application, a home inspector license, provided the applicant meets the requirements of subdivisions (1), (3) and (4) of subsection (a) of this section and provided further, the individual:
(1) Became engaged in the practice of home inspections for compensation prior to July 1, 2000; and
(2) Has performed not less than eighty home inspections for compensation prior to July 1, 2001.