Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section 190-3-4 - Qualifications for RenewalContinuing education requirements:
4.1. As a condition of renewal, all licensees shall satisfactorily complete continuing education courses offered by board approved course providers of not less than fourteen (14) classroom hours or classroom hours of distance education during each renewal term: Provided, That with the exception of the 7- hour USPAP course, a licensee must wait a period of three (3) years before receiving credit for completion of a continuing education course offering on the same topic. 4.1.a. As a condition of renewal, a licensee shall complete the seven (7) hour Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) update course within eight (8) months of a newly effective cycle.4.1.b. The board shall award credit for various continuing education courses relating to real estate appraising, including but not limited to, the following topics: 4.1.b.1. Ad valorem taxation;4.1.b.2. Arbitration, dispute resolution;4.1.b.3. Business courses related to the practice of real estate appraisal or consulting;4.1.b.4. Development in cost estimating;4.1.b.5. Ethics and standards of professional practice, USPAP;4.1.b.6. Land use planning and zoning;4.1.b.7. Management, leasing;4.1.b.8. Property developmental, partial interest;4.1.b.9. Real estate law, easements, and legal interests;4.1.b.10. Real estate law and Fair Housing;4.1.b.11. Real estate litigation, damages, and condemnation;4.1.b.12. Real estate financing and investment;4.1.b.13. Real estate appraisal related computer applications;4.1.b.14. Real estate securities and syndication;4.1.b.15. Developing opinions of real property value in appraisals that also include personal property and/or business value;4.1.b.16. Seller concessions and impact on value; and/or4.1.b.17. Energy efficient items and "green building" appraisals.4.1.c. A licensee is not required to complete the required amount of classroom hours of continuing education as a condition for initial license or certification renewal if the time between the effective date on the initial license or certification as a licensee and the beginning of the first renewal term is less than one hundred and eighty (180) days.4.2. Effective January 1, 2015, licensees applying for renewal shall successfully complete a 3-hour West Virginia law course, with exam, every four (4) years. The passing score shall be determined by the board. This shall be in addition to the required 14 hours of continuing education for the renewal cycle.4.3. A course provider shall issue notice of satisfactory course completion to any licensee who attended a minimum of 90% of the classroom hours of approved course instruction. The licensee applying for renewal is responsible for documenting all required education with his or her application for renewal. All renewals are subject to random audit by the board.4.4. The course provider shall fully inform each licensee of the standards and requirements at the commencement of the course. The course provider shall monitor the attendance of licensees and submit the attendance records to the board. The board shall use the attendance records to verify documentation submitted with a licensee's application for renewal.4.5. The board may grant credit for up to seven (7) hours of a licensee's continuing education requirement to a licensee who teaches appraisal courses which the board has approved and for which the board grants credit.4.6. Licensees on active duty with the Armed Forces of the United States may be placed on active status with the board after returning from qualified deployment outside the State of West Virginia for a period of up to ninety (90) days pending completion of all continuing education requirements.