Alaska Administrative Code
Title 12 - Professional Regulations
Part 1 - Boards and Commissions Subject to Centralized Licensing
Chapter 70 - Board of Certified Real Estate Appraisers
Article 1 - Application and Examination Requirements
12 AAC 70.140 - Standards for acceptable education

(a) To comply with the real estate appraisal education requirements of 12 AAC 70.115 for initial certification, or the registered trainee education requirements of 12 AAC 70.125, an applicant's classroom hours of instruction, as defined in 12 AAC 70.910, must relate directly to real estate appraisal theory or practices and must be obtained through

(b) The board will credit only a course approved under 12 AAC 70.145 toward the classroom hours of instruction required for certification or registration.

(c) An applicant's classroom hours of education for certification as a general or residential real estate appraiser must include coverage of all topics listed in the applicable Appraiser Qualification Criteria developed by the Appraiser Qualifications Board of the Appraisal Foundation, The Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria effective May 1, 2018, and adopted by reference.

(d) Repealed 1/16/2005.

(e) Repealed 6/28/2015

(f) The board will award credit toward the classroom hour requirement for initial certification or trainee registration for completion of a course by online education if the course

(g) The board will not award credit for noninstructional course time except for a maximum of 20 hours spent writing appraisal reports for a course on that subject. The number of hours credited under this subsection may not exceed 50 percent of the total classroom hours awarded for the course for which the appraisal reports were written. The board will award credit under this subsection for no more than one course during an applicant's total classroom hours of instruction.

(h) An applicant's classroom hours of instruction must include coverage of the full scope of the fundamentals of appraisal theory, principles, and practices. A course that is highly specialized or narrow in focus will not be credited toward an applicant's required classroom hours of instruction unless the applicant has also completed sufficient courses to cover the fundamental aspects of appraisal theory, principles, and practices.

(i) The board will not award credit for more than eight classroom hours of instruction per day. If no breakdown of instructional, assignment, and examination hours is given for a course or seminar, the board will award three and one half classroom hours of instruction for the last day of the course or seminar and seven classroom hours of instruction for all other days of the course or seminar.

(j) The board will require additional information if necessary to determine if an applicant's classroom hours of instruction meet the requirements in this section.