Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies
(a) No person shall be a state provisional appraiser for less than two (2) years or more than a total of six (6) years except that under circumstances of bona fide personal or physical hardship or other good cause, the commission may allow additional time on a case by case basis. Such six (6) year total shall not include any period for which the proposed appraiser has given the commission earliest reasonable written notice of complete suspension of appraisal activity in Connecticut.
(b) While performing appraisal work, all state provisional appraisers shall be subject to direct supervision by a supervising appraiser who shall be a certified appraiser. The supervising appraiser shall be responsible for the direct supervision of the provisional appraiser by:
(1) Accepting responsibility for the appraisal work performed. The supervising appraiser shall indicate the acceptance of responsibility in any resulting written appraisal reports, appraisal review reports or appraisal consulting reports by signing and certifying the report is in compliance with the current Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP);
(2) Reviewing the provisional appraiser's appraisal reports, appraisal review reports, appraisal consulting reports or work product; and
(3) Personally inspecting each appraised property with the provisional appraiser until a reasonable appraiser would judge the provisional appraiser to be competent in accordance with the competency provision of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) for the property type.
(c) A provisional appraiser may have more than one supervising appraiser.
(d) Each provisional appraiser and supervising appraiser shall file with the commission a notification prior to beginning and at the termination of their employment by each supervising appraiser.
(e) For verification of experience credit, an appraisal log shall be maintained by the provisional appraiser and supervising appraiser and shall, at a minimum, include the following for each appraisal:
(1) Type of property;
(2) Date of report;
(3) Type of report (self-contained, summary, restricted use, other);
(4) Address of appraised property;
(5) Description of work performed by the trainee/applicant and scope of the review and supervision of the supervising appraiser;
(6) Number of actual work hours performed by the trainee or applicant on the assignment; and
(7) The signature and state certification number of the supervising appraiser.
(f) The supervising appraiser and the provisional appraiser shall review and each sign the appraisal log on a quarterly basis, in accordance with a log format provided by the commission.
(g) Separate appraisal logs shall be maintained for each supervising appraiser.
(h) The provisional appraiser shall be entitled to obtain copies of appraisals such provisional appraiser prepared, or to which such provisional appraiser made a significant professional contribution, from supervising appraisers when such copies are necessary to document appraisal experience for licensure, certification or regulatory compliance purposes. The supervising appraiser shall not, however, be required to maintain copies beyond the record keeping requirements of the current Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP).
(i) The supervising appraiser, by signing the notification to the commission of the sponsorship of the provisional appraiser, agrees to assume the responsibilities and duties of a supervising appraiser as provided in this section and in chapter 400g of the Connecticut General Statutes and the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), and shall cooperate with the commission regarding matters related to the provisional appraiser.
(j) A supervising appraiser shall have no more than three (3) provisional appraisers at any one time unless the supervisor has first obtained a waiver of this subsection from the commission. Any waiver of this subsection shall:
(1) Be for a specific maximum number of provisional appraisers;
(2) State the minimum number of supervising appraisers that will be maintained in order to retain the waiver;
(3) Lapse at the end of the licensure or certification period during which the waiver is granted or upon a failure to maintain the approved minimum number of supervising appraisers, whichever occurs first; and
(4) Require a new waiver whenever provisional appraisers' licenses are renewed.
(Effective May 18, 1994; Amended October 15, 1999; Amended February 2, 2001; Amended December 7, 2004; Amended May 31, 2007; Amended January 5, 2011)