100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB0722

 

Introduced 1/25/2017, by Rep. Robert Rita

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
225 ILCS 459/165

    Amends the Appraisal Management Company Registration Act. Provides that an appraisal management company shall not require an appraiser to pay the specified appraisal management company national registry fee assessed by the Appraisal Subcommittee of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council for a person that is certified as an appraiser in this State and is on the appraiser panel of the appraisal management company; require an appraiser to pay any fee directly or indirectly to an appraisal management company or to reimburse an appraisal management company for any costs, fees, or other expenses incurred solely by the appraisal management company as a prerequisite to an appraiser being added to an appraiser panel or as a prerequisite to an appraiser receiving an order for an appraisal from an appraisal management company; or deduct any amount from the reasonable and customary fee paid to an appraiser for any costs, fees, or other expenses incurred solely by the appraisal management company.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Appraisal Management Company Registration
5Act is amended by changing Section 165 as follows:
 
6    (225 ILCS 459/165)
7    Sec. 165. Prohibited activities.
8    (a) No person or entity acting in the capacity of an
9appraisal management company shall improperly influence or
10attempt to improperly influence the development, reporting,
11result, or review of any appraisal by engaging, without
12limitation, in any of the following:
13        (1) Withholding or threatening to withhold timely
14    payment for a completed appraisal, except where addressed
15    in a mutually agreed upon contract.
16        (2) Withholding or threatening to withhold, either
17    expressed or by implication, future business from, or
18    demoting, or terminating, or threatening to demote or
19    terminate an Illinois licensed or certified appraiser.
20        (3) Expressly or impliedly promising future business,
21    promotions, or increased compensation for an independent
22    appraiser.
23        (4) Conditioning an assignment for an appraisal

 

 

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1    service or the payment of an appraisal fee or salary or
2    bonus on the opinion, conclusion, or valuation to be
3    reached in an appraisal report.
4        (5) Requesting that an appraiser provide an estimated,
5    predetermined, or desired valuation in an appraisal report
6    or provide estimated values or sales at any time prior to
7    the appraiser's completion of an appraisal report.
8        (6) Allowing or directing the removal of an appraiser
9    from an appraisal panel without prior written notice to the
10    appraiser.
11        (7) Requiring an appraiser to sign a non-compete clause
12    when not an employee of the entity.
13        (8) Requiring an appraiser to sign any sort of
14    indemnification agreement that would require the appraiser
15    to defend and hold harmless the appraisal management
16    company or any of its agents, employees, or independent
17    contractors for any liability, damage, losses, or claims
18    arising out of the services performed by the appraisal
19    management company or its agents, employees, or
20    independent contractors and not the services performed by
21    the appraiser.
22        (9) Prohibiting or attempting to prohibit the
23    appraiser from including or referencing the appraisal fee,
24    the appraisal management company name or identity, or the
25    client's or lender's name or identity within the body of
26    the appraisal report.

 

 

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1        (10) Require an appraiser to collect a fee from the
2    borrower or occupant of the property to be appraised.
3        (11) Knowingly withholding any end-user client
4    guidelines, policies, requirements, standards, assignment
5    conditions, and special instructions from an appraiser
6    prior to the acceptance of an appraisal assignment.
7    (b) A person or entity may not structure an appraisal
8assignment or a contract with an independent appraiser for the
9purpose of evading the provisions of this Act.
10    (c) No registrant or other person or entity may alter,
11modify, or otherwise change a completed appraisal report
12submitted by an independent appraiser, including without
13limitation, by doing either of the following:
14        (1) permanently or temporarily removing the
15    appraiser's signature or seal; or
16        (2) adding information to, or removing information
17    from, the appraisal report with an intent to change the
18    value conclusion or the condition of the property.
19    (d) No appraisal management company may require an
20appraiser to provide it with the appraiser's digital signature
21or seal. However, nothing in this Act shall be deemed to
22prohibit an appraiser from voluntarily providing his or her
23digital signature or seal to another person on an
24assignment-by-assignment basis, in accordance with USPAP.
25    (e) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit an appraisal
26management company from requesting that an appraiser:

 

 

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1        (1) consider additional appropriate property
2    information, including the consideration of additional
3    comparable properties to make or support an appraisal;
4        (2) provide further detail, substantiation, or
5    explanation for the appraiser's value conclusion; or
6        (3) correct factual errors in the appraisal report.
7    (f) An appraisal management company shall not:
8        (1) require an appraiser to pay the appraisal
9    management company national registry fee assessed by the
10    Appraisal Subcommittee of the Federal Financial
11    Institutions Examination Council pursuant to 12 U.S.C.
12    3338 for a person that is certified as an appraiser in this
13    State and is on the appraiser panel of the appraisal
14    management company;
15        (2) require an appraiser to pay any fee directly or
16    indirectly to an appraisal management company or to
17    reimburse an appraisal management company for any costs,
18    fees, or other expenses incurred solely by the appraisal
19    management company as a prerequisite to an appraiser being
20    added to an appraiser panel or as a prerequisite to an
21    appraiser receiving an order for an appraisal from an
22    appraisal management company; or
23        (3) deduct any amount from the reasonable and customary
24    fee paid to an appraiser for any costs, fees, or other
25    expenses incurred solely by the appraisal management
26    company.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 97-602, eff. 8-26-11.)