543D.19  Retention of records.

1.  A certified real estate appraiser shall retain for three years, originals or true copies of all written contracts engaging the appraiser's services for real estate appraisal work and all reports and supporting data assembled and formulated for use by the appraiser or the associate appraiser in preparing the reports.

2.  The three-year period for retention of records is applicable to each engagement of the services of a certified real estate appraiser and shall commence upon the date of the submission of the appraisal to the client unless, within the three-year period, the appraiser is notified that the appraisal or report is involved in litigation, in which event the three-year period for the retention of records shall commence upon the date of the final disposition of the litigation.

3.  All records required to be maintained under this chapter shall be made available by a certified real estate appraiser for inspection and copying by the board on reasonable notice to the appraiser.

Section History: Recent form

  89 Acts, ch 290, §19

  CS89, § 117B.19

  C93, § 543D.19


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