1. (a) Before applying for a license, an appraiser trainee may request the Board to review the appraiser trainee's work product.

2. (b) An appraiser trainee may submit an application to the Board for review of the appraiser trainee's work product after:

   1. (1) accumulating 500 hours of appraisal experience;
   2. (2) accumulating 1,000 hours of appraisal experience; or
   3. (3) both.
3. (c) Work product submitted for review must fall within one of the approved categories of experience credit described in §153.15(e) and meet the definition of real estate appraisal experience in §153.1.

4. (d) To begin the review process, an appraiser trainee must submit:

   1. (1) a completed, Board-approved application requesting the Board to review the appraiser trainee's work product;
   2. (2) payment of the $75 fee; and
   3. (3) a completed appraisal report and corresponding work file from a time period during which the appraiser trainee had legal authority to perform the work.
5. (e) The application for review of an appraiser trainee's work product is not complete until the appraiser trainee submits all required documentation and pays the applicable fee.
6. (f) If an appraiser trainee provides inadequate documentation, the Board will contact the appraiser trainee in writing, identify any deficiencies and provide the appraiser trainee twenty days to cure the noted deficiencies. If the appraiser trainee fails to cure the deficiencies timely, the Board will terminate the appraiser trainee's application for work product review.
7. (g) The Board will provide the appraiser trainee with a written report identifying deficiencies in the appraiser trainee's work product after the application for review is complete.

8. (h) A review conducted under this provision:

   1. (1) is for educational purposes only;
   2. (2) does not constitute Board approval of the appraiser trainee's experience;
   3. (3) does not preclude the Board from denying a license application submitted by the appraiser trainee in the future; and

   4. (4) will not result in a complaint against the appraiser trainee unless review of the appraiser trainee's work product reveals:

      1. (A) knowing or intentional misrepresentation, fraud or criminal conduct; or
      2. (B) serious deficiencies that constitute grossly negligent acts or omissions.

Source Note:The provisions of this §153.22 adopted to be effective March 13, 2016, 41 TexReg 1688.