section .0200 – appraisal management company registration

21 NCAC 57D .0201         FITNESS FOR REGISTRATION

(a)  The Appraisal Board shall consider the fitness for registration of each applicant. When the fitness of an applicant is in question, action by the Board shall be deferred until the applicant has affirmatively demonstrated that the applicant possesses the requisite competency, truthfulness, honesty and integrity.

(b)  When the application is deferred, the Board shall notify the applicant and the applicant shall be entitled to demonstrate his or her fitness for registration at a hearing before the Board.

(c)  The inquiry into fitness for registration shall include consideration of whether the applicant has had any disciplinary action taken against any professional license in North Carolina or any other state, and whether the applicant has committed or done any act which would be grounds for disciplinary action including the suspension or revocation of registration, and whether the applicant has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any criminal act, and whether any such actions or charges are pending.

(d)  All applicants shall obtain a criminal records check pursuant to G.S. 93E-2-11. This records check must have been performed within 60 days of the date the completed application for registration is received by the Board. Applicants shall pay all required fees required to perform the check.

(e)  Notice to the applicant that its competency or fitness for registration is in question shall be in writing, sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the address shown upon the application. The applicant has 60 days from the date of receipt of this notice to request a hearing before the Board. Failure to request a hearing within this time constitutes a waiver of the applicant's right to a hearing on its application for registration, and the application shall be deemed denied. Nothing in this Rule shall be interpreted to prevent an applicant from reapplying for registration.

(f)  For the purposes of this Section, "applicant" shall mean any person owning 10 percent or more of the appraisal management company.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 93E-2-3; 93E-2-4; 93E-2-11;

Eff. February 1, 2011;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. October 3, 2017.