Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Basic and continuing
education accreditation requirements shall be as follows:
(1) Each course sponsor shall provide a copy of
each of the following to each student upon enrollment:
(A) Course outline;
(B) Enrollment fee refund policy; and
(C) Grading policy.
(2) Each completion certificate shall be completed
under penalty of perjury and include the following:
(A) Bureau course approval number;
(B) Name and address of student;
(C) Course title;
(D) Statement that course was either
correspondence or classroom attended;
(E) Dates of course completion and date of
successful completion of basic education final examination;
(F) For continuing education courses, a statement
that the student was in attendance at least 90% of class time;
(G) Identity and signature of verifier of course
completion; and
(H) The course sponsor
may include such additional information in this document as it deems
necessary.
(3) Participants
shall be physically present during at least 90% of the offering time (54 minutes out
of each 60 minutes of instruction time), exclusive of the time allocated to the
administering of a basic education final examination; and
(4) Each instructor shall have at least one of the
following:
(A) A bachelor's degree or higher degree
in a field related to real estate appraising from a school listed as an institution
of higher learning by the U.S. Office of Education, or from a comparable school of a
foreign country;
(B) A valid teaching
credential or certificate authorizing the holder to teach in the field of knowledge
covered in the offering;
(C) Five years
full-time experience in the field being taught; or
(D) A combination of full-time experience and full
time college-level education totaling at least five
years.
(b) In
addition to (a) above, requirements for basic education accreditation shall be as
follows:
(1) Each course shall have a final exam
per AQB established appraiser qualification criteria; and
(2) Examination questions to be included in the
final examination shall not be reviewed with students before, during or after the
course.
(3) Each course shall meet the
minimum course length requirements established by AQB.
1. Renumbering and
amendment of former section 3534 to new section 3661 filed 11-1-96; operative
11-1-96 pursuant to Government Code section
11343.4(d)
(Register 96, No. 44). For prior history, see Register 94, No. 23.
2.
Amendment of subsection (a)(3) filed 8-24-2010; operative 9-23-2010 (Register 2010,
No. 35).
3. Change without regulatory effect amending subsection
(a)(2)(A) filed 2-11-2014 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2014, No. 7).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
11313,
11314
and
11361,
Business and Professions Code. Reference: Section
11360,
Business and Professions Code.
