2014 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 36a - The Banking Law of Connecticut
Chapter 669 - Regulated Activities
Section 36a-760j - Prohibition against influencing real estate appraisals.
No person shall influence real estate appraisals of residential property. For the purposes of this section, “influence real estate appraisals” means to directly or indirectly cause or attempt to cause, through coercion, extortion, inducement, bribery, intimidation, compensation, instruction or collusion, the value assigned to the residential property to be based on any factor other than the independent judgment of the person who prepares the appraisal.
(P.A. 08-176, S. 81; P.A. 09-209, S. 26; P.A. 11-216, S. 46; P.A. 12-96, S. 34.)
History: P.A. 08-176 effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 09-209 changed “A mortgage broker shall not influence” to “No person shall influence”, effective July 31, 2009; P.A. 11-216 added “means to directly or indirectly coerce, influence or otherwise encourage an appraiser to misstate or misrepresent the value of residential property and”, effective July 13, 2011; P.A. 12-96 replaced definition of “influence residential real estate appraisals” with definition of “influence real estate appraisals”, effective June 8, 2012.
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