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Terms Used In Arizona Laws 32-3663

  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appraisal: means the act or process of developing an opinion of the value of real property in conformance with the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice published by the appraisal foundation, or any other definition used in state or federal laws. See Arizona Laws 32-3661
  • Appraiser: means a person who is licensed or certified as an appraiser pursuant to this chapter and who performs valuation services competently and in a manner that is independent, impartial and objective. See Arizona Laws 32-3661
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Real estate: means an identified parcel or tract of land, including improvements, if any. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Real property: means one or more defined interests, benefits and rights inherent in the ownership of real estate. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
  • Relocation management company: means a business entity whose exclusive business services are not for mortgage purposes and include the relocation of employees as an agent or contractor for the employer or the employer's agent for the purposes of determining an anticipated sales price, as defined by the worldwide employee relocation council, of the residence of an employee being relocated by the employer in the course of its business. See Arizona Laws 32-3661
  • Standards of professional appraisal practice: means the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice promulgated by the appraisal standards board of the appraisal foundation. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215

1. A department or unit within a financial institution that is subject to direct regulation by an agency of the United States government or of this state and that receives requests for the performance of real estate appraisals from the financial institution and then assigns such requests to an appraiser who is part of the financial institution’s appraiser panel.

2. A federally regulated appraisal management company.

3. A corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, subsidiary or other business entity that employs real estate appraisers exclusively on an employer and employee basis for the performance of all real property appraisal services in the normal course of its business and that is responsible for ensuring that the real property appraisal services being performed by its employees are being performed in accordance with the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice and federal and state law.

4. A relocation management company in the course of employee relocation pursuant to its relocation policy.