Post Licensing Education for Registered Trainee Appraisers

Notice of Change/Withdrawal

 

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION

Florida Real Estate Appraisal Board

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

61J1-4.009Post-Licensing Education for Registered Trainee Appraisers

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 41, No. 54, March 19, 2015, issue of the Florida Administrative Register and are being made due to inadvertent omission of language approved by the Board prior to said publication:

NOTICE OF CHANGE

61J1-4.009 Post-Licensing Education for Registered Trainee Appraisers.

(1) First paragraph: No change.

All registered trainee appraisers must satisfactorily complete one or more Board approved courses which must total at least 40 classroom hours, without duplication of material, inclusive of examination in subjects including: influences on real estate value, legal considerations in appraisal, types of value, economic principles, real estate markets and analysis, valuation process, property description, highest and best use analysis, appraisal statistical concepts, sales comparison approach, site value, cost approach, income approach, valuation of partial interests, and appraisal standards and ethics. Post-licensing license education shall consist of at least 30 hours two courses of a minimum of 15 hours each of pre-certification education, a 7-hour National USPAP update course or its equivalent which must be taught by an AQB certified instructor, and a 3-hour Florida Laws and Rule Course.  A classroom hour is defined as 50 minutes of each 60-minute segment. The examination may not be open book, and must be administered by a permitted instructor.

(2) All required hours must be completed within the same renewal period. Post-licensing licensure education must be taken during a single renewal period and all other continuing education for licensure renewal must be taken during other renewal periods.

(3) through (4)(e) No change.

(f) All post-licensing license education courses may be completed through in-person classroom instruction or distance education.

(g) No change.

(5) Hardship, for purposes of this rule, shall be defined as an inability, due to the licensee’s own physical disability, to complete the post-licensing education requirements.

(6) Any registered trainee appraiser who does not complete these Board prescribed post-licensing licensure educational requirements prior to the end of the second renewal following initial registration is void without further administrative action. Any registered trainee appraiser whose license is null and void pursuant to s. 475.6175(2), F.S., may qualify to practice as a registered trainee appraiser only by retaking the required education and complying with all other requirements of law to be registered as a registered trainee appraiser.

(7) No change.

The person to be contacted regarding the PROPOSED rule is: Juana Watkins, Director, Division of Real Estate, 400 West Robinson Street, Suite N801, Orlando, Florida 32801