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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="16-511" title_number="16" title_name="Real Estate Appraisers, Appraisal Management Companies, and Home Inspectors" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Certification of Real Estate Appraisers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>To qualify for renewal of a certificate under this subtitle, a holder of a certificate shall provide to the Commission adequate evidence that the holder meets the continuing education requirements established for certification under the federal Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A holder of a certificate may partly satisfy the requirement of subsection (a) of this section if the holder provides to the Commission adequate evidence that the holder:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>has completed an educational program that the Commission determines to be equal to that which the Commission approves; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>in an educational program that the Commission approves and that is about real property appraisal theory and practice:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>has participated as a teacher, preparer of instructional materials, or in another similar capacity; but</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>has not participated as a student.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The continuing education courses shall be conducted by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an accredited university, college, or community or junior college;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an approved appraisal society, institute, or association; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>another school that the Commission approves.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If feasible, continuing education courses shall be offered at reasonable intervals in each county and in each major geographic area of the larger counties.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>On completion of a continuing education course by a certificate holder, the entity that conducted the course or the instructor shall issue to the certificate holder a document of completion that states the number of classroom hours of that course.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Commission may waive the requirements of this section for a certificate holder if the certificate holder shows good cause for being unable to meet the requirements.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A real estate appraiser has a grace period of 6 months after the certificate of the real estate appraiser expires in which to renew it retroactively, if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the real estate appraiser is otherwise entitled to have it renewed;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Commission determines that the real estate appraiser has failed to meet the requirements for renewal through mistake, misunderstanding, or circumstances beyond the control of the real estate appraiser; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>pays the renewal fee to the Commission.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a real estate appraiser renews a certificate within the 6-month grace period, the term of the renewal shall start the day after the certificate held originally by the real estate appraiser expired.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
