2015 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 40 - Professions and Occupations
CHAPTER 60 - SOUTH CAROLINA REAL ESTATE APPRAISER LICENSE AND CERTIFICATION ACT
Section 40-60-33. Educational and applicable experience requirements.

In addition to the requirements of Section 40-60-31, an applicant for a permit, license, or certification shall provide proof of having met the following educational and applicable experience requirements:

(1) To qualify as an apprentice appraiser, an applicant shall:

(a) furnish evidence that the applicant will be supervised by an appraiser who is state certified by the board;

(b) furnish evidence that the applicant has successfully completed within the past five years at least seventy-five hours of courses approved by the board; and

(c) attend a trainee/supervisor orientation conducted in compliance with AQB requirements.

(2) To qualify as a state-licensed appraiser, an applicant shall:

(a) furnish evidence that the applicant has successfully completed within the past five years one hundred fifty hours of education required for licensure by the board in approved appraisal courses;

(b) demonstrate two thousand hours of appraisal experience since January 1, 1992, but in not less than twenty-four months. Experience may include, but is not limited to, fee and staff appraisal, ad valorem tax appraisal not to exceed forty percent of the total hours claimed, review appraisal, appraisal analysis, highest and best use analysis, and feasibility analysis/study. The verification for experience credit claimed by an applicant must be by affidavit on forms prescribed by the board; and

(c) pass an examination approved by the board. The prerequisites to sit for the examination are completion of the educational requirements and appraisal experience.

(3) To qualify as a state-certified residential appraiser, an applicant shall:

(a) furnish evidence that the applicant has successfully completed within the past five years two hundred hours of education required for residential certification by the board in approved appraisal courses;

(b) demonstrate two thousand five hundred hours of appraisal experience since January 1, 1992, but in not less than twenty-four months. Experience may include, but is not limited to, fee and staff appraisal, ad valorem tax appraisal not to exceed forty percent of the total hours claimed, review appraisal, appraisal analysis, highest and best use analysis, and feasibility analysis/study. The verification for experience credit claimed by an applicant must be by affidavit on forms prescribed by the board; and

(c) pass an examination approved by the board. The prerequisites to sit for the examination are completion of the educational requirements and appraisal experience.

(4) To qualify as a state-certified general appraiser an applicant shall:

(a) furnish evidence that the applicant has successfully completed within the past five years three hundred hours of education required for general certification by the board in approved appraisal courses;

(b) demonstrate three thousand hours of appraisal experience since January 1, 1992, but in not less than thirty months and of which at least fifty percent must be in nonresidential appraisal work. Experience may include, but is not limited to, fee and staff appraisal, ad valorem tax appraisal not to exceed forty percent of the total hours claimed, review appraisal, appraisal analysis, highest and best use analysis, and feasibility analysis/study. The verification for experience credit claimed by an applicant must be by affidavit on forms prescribed by the board; and

(c) pass an examination approved by the board. The prerequisites to sit for the examination are completion of the educational requirements and appraisal experience.

(5) To qualify as a licensed mass appraiser, state-certified residential mass appraiser, or state-certified general mass appraiser, the applicant shall satisfy the requirements enumerated in this section, and any other applicable provisions of this chapter to qualify, respectively, as a licensed appraiser, state-certified residential appraiser, and state-certified general appraiser, with the exception that one hundred percent of the required experience hours for the mass appraiser designations may be in the area of mass appraisals.

HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 257, Section 1; 2014 Act No. 180 (H.4644), Section 3, eff May 16, 2014.

Editor's Note

Prior Laws:1991 Act No. 12, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 143, Section 4; 1994 Act No. 385, Section 22; 2000 Act No. 335, Section 1; 1976 Code Sections 40-60-90, 40-60-100.

Effect of Amendment

2014 Act No. 180, Section 3, in subsection (1), substituted "apprentice appraiser" for "appraiser apprentice"; added subsection (1)(c); in subsections (2)(c), (3)(c), and (4)(c), substituted "The prerequisites" for "The only prerequisite", and added "and appraisal experience"; in subsection (5), substituted "state-certified residential mass appraiser, or state-certified general mass appraiser" for "certified mass appraiser, or certified general mass appraiser"; and made other nonsubstantive changes.