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Volume 43 - Issue 16 - April 18, 2024

State of Kansas

Department of Revenue
Division of Property Valuation

Permanent Administrative Regulations

Article 6.—REGISTERED MASS APPRAISER

93-6-2. Education requirements. (a) Each candidate for the registered mass appraiser (RMA) designation shall complete 200 hours of courses, which shall include those courses specified in subsection (b). Each course shall require the successful completion of a comprehensive exam. “Hour,” as used in this regulation, shall mean one clock-hour of at least 50 minutes. Successfully completed courses shall only count once towards a candidate’s application for RMA designation.

(b) Mandatory course content shall focus on the following:

  • Basic appraisal principles and procedures with an emphasis on approaches to valuation (cost, sales comparison, and income) 60 hours
  • National uniform standards of professional appraisal practice (USPAP) 15 hours
  • Mass appraisal fundamentals, statistics, modeling, and finance 30 hours
  • Assessment administration 30 hours
  • Kansas property tax law 20 hours
  • Personal property 20 hours
  • Land appraisal principles 25 hours

(c) After July 1, 2023, all qualifying courses shall be approved by the Kansas real estate appraisal board or be developed by the director of property valuation specifically related to the administration of the assessment and tax laws of the state. The 15-hour USPAP and the 20-hour Kansas property tax law courses are mandatory. (Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 19-430; effective, T-93-8-29-97, Aug. 29, 1997; effective Dec. 5, 1997; amended April 20, 2001; amended Dec. 20, 2013; amended May 3, 2024.)

93-6-3. Continuing education requirements. (a) Each individual who has obtained the registered mass appraiser (RMA) designation shall successfully complete at least 120 hours of continuing education every four years in order to retain the designation. “Hour,” as used in this regulation, shall mean one clock-hour of at least 50 minutes. The four-year period shall correspond with the four-year appointment period for county appraisers pursuant to K.S.A. 19-430, and amendments thereto. Each individual who first obtains the RMA designation during any of the six-month periods of the appointment period specified in this paragraph shall successfully complete course hours during the remainder of the appointment period as follows:

  • First six months 120 hours
  • Second six months 105 hours
  • Third six months 90 hours
  • Fourth six months 75 hours
  • Fifth six months 60 hours
  • Sixth six months 45 hours
  • Seventh six months 30 hours

An individual who obtains the RMA designation during the final six months of the appointment period shall not be required to complete any course hours.

(b) At least 60 hours of continuing education shall be accumulated through appraisal courses, each of which shall require the successful completion of a comprehensive exam.

The remaining 60 hours of continuing education may be seminar hours.

(c) If any individual has continuing education hours in excess of 120 hours during the four-year period, up to 30 hours may be carried forward from one four-year period to the next four-year period.

(d) All continuing education courses necessary to retain the RMA designation shall be appraisal courses approved by the Kansas real estate appraisal board or be courses developed by the director of property valuation specifically related to the administration of the assessment and tax laws of the state. Each individual with the RMA designation shall complete the following courses during each full four-year period:

(1) At least seven hours of uniform standards of professional appraisal practice courses approved by the Kansas real estate appraisal board;

(2) the Kansas property tax law course or the Kansas property tax law update course; and

(3) the review of Kansas exemptions course. (Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 19-430; effective, T-93-8-29-97, Aug. 29, 1997; effective Dec. 5, 1997; amended April 20, 2001; amended Dec. 20, 2013; amended May 6, 2016; amended May 3, 2024.)

93-6-5. Case study requirements. A candidate for the RMA designation shall successfully complete both a residential case study and a commercial case study, each of which shall have a six-hour time limit. A candidate may attempt to successfully complete each case study twice within a six-month time period. If a candidate fails in two attempts to complete either or both case studies, the candidate shall wait 90 days after the date of each failed retake before attempting to complete each failed case study again. (Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 19-430; effective, T-93-8-29-97, Aug. 29, 1997; effective Dec. 5, 1997; amended May 3, 2024.)

Mark A. Burghart
Secretary
Department of Revenue

Doc. No. 052065

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