GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1455

Short Title:  Real Estate Appraisers Priv. Lic.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Brubaker; and Bowman.
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Referred to:  Finance.
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June 2, 1992

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS TO OBTAIN PRIVILEGE LICENSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 105-41(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Every practicing attorney-at-law, practicing physician, veterinarian, surgeon, osteopath, chiropractor, chiropodist, dentist, oculist, optician, or optometrist; every person practicing any professional art of healing for a fee or reward; every practicing professional engineer as defined in Chapter 89C of the General Statutes; every practicing land surveyor as defined in Chapter 89C of the General Statutes; every architect and landscape architect; every photographer, canvasser for any photographer, or agent of a photographer in transmitting pictures or photographs to be copied, enlarged, or colored; and every person, whether acting as an individual, as a member of a partnership, or as an officer or agent of a corporation, who is engaged in the business of selling or offering to sell real estate, buying or offering to buy real estate, negotiating the purchase, sale, or exchange of real estate, leasing or offering to lease real estate, renting or offering to rent real estate, collecting any rents as agent for another for compensation, soliciting or negotiating loans on real estate as agent for another for a commission, brokerage, or other compensation, or appraising real estate shall apply for and obtain from the Secretary a statewide license for the privilege of engaging in the profession, business, or act and shall pay a tax of fifty dollars ($50.00) for the license.  No professional individual is required to pay a privilege tax after the individual has arrived at the age of 75 years."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 93A-9 reads as rewritten:
"§ 93A-9. Licensing nonresidents.
An applicant from another state, which offers licensing privileges to residents of North Carolina, may be licensed by conforming to all the provisions of this Chapter and, in the discretion of the Commission, any other terms and conditions as are required of North Carolina residents applying for license in the other state.  The Commission may exempt from the examination prescribed in G.S. 93A-4 a broker or salesman duly licensed in another state if a similar exemption is extended to licensed brokers and salesmen from North Carolina.
In all prosecutions under this section, a certificate under the hand and seal of the Secretary of Revenue that the accused filed no income tax returns with the Department of Revenue for the preceding taxable year is prima facie evidence that the accused is a nonresident and that the license is void."
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1992.