Section 193F.5.4. Supervised experience required for initial certification.

Commencing with experience attained on or after July 1, 2007, all experience required for initial certification pursuant to Iowa Code section 543D.9 shall be performed as a registered associate real property appraiser under the direct supervision of a certified real property appraiser pursuant to the provisions of 193F—Chapter 15.

         5.4(1) Acceptable experience. The board will accept as qualifying experience the documented experience attained while the applicant for initial certification was in an educational program recognized by the Appraiser Qualifications Board and Appraisal Subcommittee as providing qualifying experience for initial certification, whether or not the applicant was registered as an associate real property appraiser at the time the educational program was completed. Such programs, if approved by federal authorities, will incorporate direct supervision by a certified real property appraiser and such additional program features as to satisfy the purpose of requiring that qualifying experience be attained by the applicant as an associate real property appraiser.

         5.4(2) Exceptions.

            a.               Applicants for initial certification in Iowa who request that the board approve experience performed in the absence of registration as an associate real property appraiser may file an application for approval on a form provided by the board. The burden shall be on the applicant to establish by clear and convincing evidence all of the following:

             (1)             The experience is qualifying experience under the substantive and documentation standards of the Appraiser Qualifications Board and Appraisal Subcommittee.

             (2)             Denial of the application would impose an undue hardship on the applicant.

             (3)             The nature of the experience attained is qualitatively and substantially equivalent to the experience an associate real property appraiser would receive under the direct supervision of a certified real property appraiser pursuant to the standards established in 193F—Chapter 15.

             (4)             Approval of the application would foster the board’s goal of fair and consistent treatment of applicants.

             (5)             A basis exists beyond the individual control of the applicant to explain why the experience at issue could not have been attained by the applicant as an associate real property appraiser under the direct supervision of a certified real property appraiser.

            b.               Among the circumstances the board may consider favorably in ruling on an application for approval of unsupervised experience or experience attained by the applicant in the absence of registration as an associate real property appraiser are:

             (1)             The experience was attained in a jurisdiction that, at the time, did not register associate real property appraisers or otherwise offer an associate, trainee or equivalent category of certification.

             (2)             The applicant attained the experience while employed in a county assessor’s office engaged in mass appraisals, and the experience would otherwise qualify under applicable federal standards.

             (3)             The experience was attained between July 1, 2007, and January 1, 2008, and the appraiser could not reasonably have become registered and associated with a supervising certified appraiser by July 1, 2007, which is the effective date of the requirement that qualifying experience be attained by the applicant as an associate real property appraiser working under the direct supervision of a certified real property appraiser.

[ARC 7774B, IAB 5/20/09, effective 6/24/09; ARC 1731C, IAB 11/12/14, effective 12/17/14]