(a)
(1) Each applicant for the residential
classification shall have 1,500 hours of appraisal experience obtained over a
period of at least 12 months.
(2)
At least six hours of real property appraisal experience shall be on an
improved property.
(3) Acceptable
appraisal experience shall include at least 1,125 experience hours of real
property appraisal experience.
(4)
Acceptable appraisal experience may include an aggregate maximum of 375
experience hours in the following appraisal categories:
(A) Mass appraisal;
(B) real estate consulting;
(C) review appraisal;
(D) highest and best use analysis;
and
(E) feasibility analysis
study.
(5) Experience
hours may be granted for appraisals performed without a traditional client.
However, appraisal experience gained from work without a traditional client
shall not exceed 50 percent of the total appraisal experience requirement.
Practicum courses that are approved by the appraiser qualifications board's
course-approval program or by a state appraiser regulatory agency may also be
used to meet the requirement for non-traditional client experience. Each
practicum course shall include the generally applicable methods of appraisal
practice for the residential classification. The course content shall include
the following:
(A) Requiring the student to
produce credible appraisals that utilize an actual subject property;
(B) performing market research containing
sales analysis; and
(C) applying
and reporting the applicable appraisal approaches in conformity with the
uniform standards of professional appraisal practice.
Each assignment shall require problem-solving skills for a
variety of property types for the residential classification. Experience credit
shall be granted for the actual classroom hours of instruction and hours of
documented research and analysis as awarded from the practicum course approval
process.
(6) For
the purposes of this regulation, "traditional client" shall mean a client who
hires an appraiser for a business purpose.
(b) All appraisal experience shall be in
compliance with the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice
(USPAP), as required by
K.S.A. 58-4121 and amendments thereto. Each
applicant's experience shall be appraisal work conforming to standards 1, 2, 3,
5, and 6, in which the applicant demonstrates proficiency in the appraisal
principles, methodology, procedures, and report conclusions.
(c) The real property appraisal experience
requirement specified in paragraph (a)(3) shall be met by time involved in the
appraisal process. The appraisal process shall consist of the following:
(1) Analyzing factors that affect
value;
(2) defining the
problem;
(3) gathering and
analyzing data;
(4) applying the
appropriate analysis and methodology; and
(5) arriving at an opinion and correctly
reporting the opinion in compliance with USPAP.
(d)
(1) In
order for the board to determine whether or not the experience requirements
have been met, each applicant shall submit appraisal experience log sheets, in
a format prescribed by the board, listing the appraisal reports completed by
the applicant within the five-year period preceding the date of application.
Each appraisal report shall be signed by the applicant or the preparer of the
report who supervised the applicant. If the applicant does not sign the
appraisal report, the preparer shall indicate whether or not the applicant
provided significant professional assistance in the appraisal
process.
(2) Each applicant shall
maintain a record of the actual number of hours involved in completing an
appraisal. Unless the board approves a greater number of experience hours for a
particular appraisal based upon the unusually difficult or complex nature of
the appraisal, the maximum number of experience hours for each appraisal shall
be in accordance with the board's document titled "experience hours table,"
which is adopted by reference in
K.A.R. 117-2-2.
(3) Each applicant shall maintain a separate
log of appraisals for supervised experience and for unsupervised experience.
When logging supervised experience, the applicant shall
maintain a separate log of appraisals completed with each supervising
appraiser. Each page of each supervised experience log shall include the
certification number and the signature of that applicant's supervising
appraiser, which shall serve as verification of the accuracy of the
information.
(e)
Upon request of the board, each applicant shall submit at least three appraisal
reports selected by the board from the applicant's log sheet and one appraisal
report selected by the applicant from the log sheet. The selected appraisal
reports shall be reviewed by the board or the
board's designee, in accordance with standard rule 3 for
competency within the scope of practice of the appraisal work authorized for
the residential classification, by using the criteria specified in
K.S.A. 58-4109(d) and amendments
thereto and, in particular, standard rules 1 and 2 of the edition of USPAP in
effect when the appraisal was performed. Approval of an applicant's experience
hours shall be subject to board approval of the requisite number of experience
hours and board approval of the selected appraisal reports.
Notes
Kan. Admin. Regs. §
117-4-2
Authorized
by and implementing
K.S.A. 58-4109; effective, T-117-6-10-91, June 10,
1991; effective Aug. 5, 1991; amended July 25, 1994; amended June 5, 1995;
amended March 7, 1997; amended Jan. 9, 1998; amended March 26, 1999; amended
Oct. 8, 2004; amended Sept. 1, 2006; amended Jan. 1, 2008; amended April 16,
2010; amended Aug. 24, 2012; amended Aug. 22, 2014; amended Jan. 1, 2015;
amended June 17, 2016; amended May 26, 2017; amended by
Kansas
Register Volume 37, No. 46; effective
11/30/2018.
