A. This act shall only apply to:

1. Any appraisal or appraiser involving the following:

a.a federally related transaction,

b.real estate-related financial transactions of the agencies, instrumentalities, and federally recognized entities covered by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989, and

c.any real estate-related transactions where an appraisal report was made under a written agreement that the appraisal report would follow the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice guidelines or where a written appraisal states that it is in compliance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice; and

2. Appraisers certified or licensed pursuant to the Oklahoma Certified Real Estate Appraisers Act or representing themselves as such, whether such license or certification is active, inactive, expired, suspended, or revoked as set forth in this act and the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, to the extent that the appraisers and any real property valuation and any real property valuation activity performed by them shall conform to the code of ethics as set forth in this act.

B. Certified public accountants, licensed in the states or other U.S. jurisdictions, who perform appraisals of real estate incidental to the performance of professional services they provide to clients are excluded from the licensing and certification provisions of the Oklahoma Certified Real Estate Appraisers Act unless the appraisal is a federally related transaction or a real estate-related financial transaction of the agencies, instrumentalities and federally recognized entities covered by the Financial Institutions, Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989.

Added by Laws 1990, c. 327, § 3, emerg. eff. May 31, 1990. Amended by Laws 1996, c. 318, § 7, eff. July 1, 1996; Laws 2006, c. 165, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.