193F—6.4 (543D) Supervised experience required for initial certification. Commencing with experience attained on or after July 1, 2007, all experience required for initial certification pursuant to Iowa Code section 543D.9 shall be performed as a registered associate real estate appraiser under the direct supervision of a certified real estate appraiser.
	 6.4(1) Acceptable experience. The board will accept as qualifying experience the documented experience attained while the applicant for initial certification was enrolled in an educational program recognized by the Appraisal Qualifications Board and Appraisal Subcommittee as providing qualifying experience for initial certification, whether or not the applicant was registered as an associate real estate appraiser at the time the educational program was completed. Such programs, if approved by federal authorities, will incorporate direct supervision by a certified real estate appraiser and such additional program features as to satisfy the purpose of requiring that qualifying experience be attained by the applicant as a registered associate real estate appraiser.
	 6.4(2) Exceptions.
	  a.   	 Applicants for initial certification in Iowa who request that the board approve unsupervised experience or experience performed in the absence of registration as an associate real estate appraiser may file an application for approval on a form provided by the board. The burden shall be on the applicant to establish by clear and convincing evidence all of the following:
	 (1) 	 The experience is qualifying experience under the substantive and documentation standards of the Appraisal Qualifications Board and Appraisal Subcommittee.
	 (2) 	 Denial of the application would impose an undue hardship on the applicant.
	 (3) 	 The nature of the experience attained is qualitatively and substantially equivalent to the experience a registered associate real estate appraiser would receive under the direct supervision of a certified real estate appraiser pursuant to the standards established in 193F—Chapter 15.
	 (4) 	 Approval of the application would foster the board’s goal of fair and consistent treatment of applicants.
	 (5) 	 A basis exists beyond the individual control of the applicant to explain why the experience at issue could not have been attained by the applicant as a registered associate real estate appraiser under the direct supervision of a certified real estate appraiser.
	  b.   	 Among the circumstances the board may favorably consider in ruling on an application for approval of unsupervised experience or experience attained by the applicant in the absence of registration as an associate real estate appraiser are:
	 (1) 	 The experience was attained in a jurisdiction that, at the time, did not register associate real estate appraisers or otherwise offer an associate, trainee or equivalent category of licensure.
	 (2) 	 The applicant attained the experience while employed in a county assessor’s office engaged in mass appraisals, and the experience would otherwise qualify under applicable federal standards.
	 (3) 	 The experience was attained between July 1, 2007, and January 1, 2008, and the appraiser could not reasonably have become registered and associated with a supervising certified appraiser by July 1, 2007, the effective date of the requirement that qualifying experience be attained by the applicant as a registered associate real estate appraiser working under the direct supervision of a certified real estate appraiser.