Kan. Admin. Regs. § 117-6-2

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 49, December 5, 2024

Section 117-6-2 - Continuing education; approval of courses; requirements

(a) Each sponsor of a continuing education course approved by the board shall ensure that each appraiser participates in a program that maintains and increases the appraiser's skill, knowledge, and competency in real estate appraising.

(b) Courses approved by the board for renewal of a license or certificate shall cover real estate-related appraisal topics that may include the following:

(1) Mass appraisal;

(2) arbitration and dispute resolution;

(3) courses related to the practice of real estate appraisal or consulting;

(4) development cost estimating;

(5) ethics and standards of professional practice;

(6) land use planning and zoning;

(7) management, leasing, and time-sharing;

(8) property development and partial interests;

(9) real estate appraisal;

(10) real estate law, easements, and legal interests;

(11) real estate litigation, damages, and condemnation;

(12) real estate financing and investment;

(13) real estate appraisal-related computer applications;

(14) real estate securities and syndication;

(15) developing opinions of real property value in appraisals that also include personal property or business value, or both;

(16) seller concessions and the impact on real estate value; and

(17) energy-efficient items and appraisals of "green buildings."

(c) The length of each course approved for continuing education credit shall be at least two classroom hours.

(d) Any distance education course may be approved for continuing education credit if all of the following conditions are met:

(1) The course provides an environment in which the student has verbal or written communication with the instructor.

(2) The sponsor obtains course content approval from any of the following:

(A) The appraiser qualifications board;

(B) an appraiser licensing or certifying agency in this or any other state; or

(C) an accredited college, community college, or university that offers distance education programs and is approved or accredited by the commission on colleges, a regional or national accreditation association, or an accrediting agency that is recognized by the U.S. secretary of education. Each non-academic credit college course provided by a college shall be approved by the appraiser qualifications board or the appraiser licensing or certifying agency in another state.

(3) The course design and delivery are approved by one of the following:

(A) An appraiser qualifications board-approved organization;

(B) a college that qualifies for course content approval as specified in paragraph (d)(2)(C) and awards academic credit for the distance education course; or

(C) a college that qualifies for course content approval as specified in paragraph (d)(2)(C) with a distance education delivery program that approves the course design and includes a delivery system incorporating interactivity.

(4) Each course includes at least one of the following:

(A) A written examination proctored by an official approved by the college or university or by the sponsor; or

(B) successful completion of prescribed course components required to demonstrate knowledge of the subject matter.

(e) To receive credit for a course, each applicant shall attend all classroom hours, even when the number of credit hours for which a course is approved is less than the total number of hours of the course presentation.

(f) The only course for which students or instructors may receive credit for attending or instructing any subsequent offering of the course after attending or teaching the course during the same education cycle shall be any update of the ethics and standards of professional practice course.

This regulation shall be effective on and after January 1, 2015.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 117-6-2

Authorized by K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 58-4105; implementing K.S.A. 58-4109, K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 58-4112, and K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 58-4117; effective Jan. 21, 1991; amended, T-117-6-10-91, June 10, 1991; amended Aug. 5, 1991; amended May 24, 1993; amended Feb. 6, 1995; amended May 23, 2003; amended Sept. 1, 2006; amended Jan. 1, 2008; amended by, Kansas Register Volume 33, No. 50, effective 1/1/2015.