CERTIFICATION OF SUPERVISING APPRAISER
Trainee Name:
The individual above has applied for a Trainee Appraiser Permit and designated you as a
SUPERVISING APPRAISER pursuant to N.J.A.C. 13:40A-4.6. Board regulations require
that you acknowledge this responsibility in writing; the full text of those regulations is listed
below.
§ 13:40A-4.6 Responsibilities of supervising appraiser
(a) Any individual designated as a "supervising appraiser" by the holder of a trainee permit shall
acknowledge in writing to the Board that he or she agrees to perform all responsibilities set forth in (f) below.
(b) Supervising appraisers shall be in good standing with the Board and shall not have been subject to
any disciplinary action, including revocation, suspension, or stayed suspension, by the Board, within the last
three years from the beginning of the supervision.
© No appraiser shall serve as a supervising appraiser until he or she has been a licensee of the Board
for at least two years.
(d) Beginning on January 1, 2008, licensed real estate appraisers shall no longer be approved to serve
as supervising appraisers. Beginning on February 5, 2007, the Board will no longer accept applications by
trainees who seek approval of a licensed real estate appraiser as a supervising appraiser.
(e) Beginning on January 1, 2008, only those individuals who are certified by the Board as either a State
certified general real estate appraiser or a State certified residential real estate appraiser shall be a
supervising appraiser.
(f) A supervising appraiser shall have the following duties and responsibilities:
1. The supervising appraiser shall at all times be responsible for and provide direct supervision of the work
performed by the trainee. For purposes of this section, "direct supervision" means:
I. To personally review the work product of the trainee;
ii. To approve, sign, and accept responsibility for each appraisal report including work product prepared
by the trainee or in which the trainee has made a professional contribution and to sign all such reports and
certify that all such reports have been independently and impartially prepared in compliance with the Uniform
Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, these rules and applicable statutory standards; and
iii. To indicate, within the certification section of the appraisal report, the name of the trainee providing
significant real property appraisal assistance. For purposes of this subparagraph, "significant" means the
exercise of appraisal knowledge and training and does not mean clerical or fact gathering tasks.
2. The supervising appraiser shall, at least once a month, sign the log required to be kept by the trainee
pursuant to
N.J.A.C. 13:40A-4.7
and shall set forth thereon his or her license or certification number.
3. The supervising appraiser shall provide the trainee with a copy of any final appraisal report in which the
trainee's work product has been utilized or in which the trainee made a professional contribution.
4. The supervising appraiser shall immediately notify the Board and his or her trainee(s), in writing, in the
event that he or she ceases to perform or is unable to perform the responsibilities set forth in this section.
5. A supervising appraiser shall not supervise more than three trainees at one time;
6. The supervising appraiser shall personally inspect, with the trainee, the interior and exterior of each
appraised property until the supervising appraiser determines that the trainee is competent in accordance with
the Competency Rule of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. Upon making the
determination of competency, the supervising appraiser shall request a competency certification form from
the Board. The supervising appraiser shall submit, to the Board, within 30 days of receipt of the competency
certification form, the certification that the trainee is competent to perform property inspections independently.
Examples of competency include, but are not limited to, properly identifying the problem to be addressed,
being familiar with a specific type of property, market, geographic area, or analytical method.