Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 58-4718

  • AMC: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company or any other business entity acting as an external third party authorized either by a creditor of a consumer credit transaction secured by a consumer's principal dwelling or by an underwriter of or other principal in the secondary mortgage markets:

    (1) That performs appraisal management services, regardless of the use of any of the following terms: Appraisal management company, mortgage technology provider, mortgage services provider, lender processing services provider, loan processor, real estate closing services provider, vendor management company or any other like term; and

    (2) such entity oversees an appraiser panel of:

    (A) More than 15 appraisers who are certified or licensed in Kansas; or

    (B) a total of more than 25 appraisers who are certified or licensed in Kansas and in any other jurisdiction. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703

  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appraisal: has the meaning specified in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703
  • Appraiser: means an individual who holds a credential issued by the Kansas real estate appraisal board pursuant to the state certified and licensed real property appraiser act entitling that individual to perform an appraisal of real property in the state of Kansas consistent with the scope of practice for such credential. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.

Except in bona fide cases of breach of contract or substandard performance of services, each AMC shall make payment to an appraiser for the completion of an appraisal or valuation assignment within 45 days of the date on which the appraiser transmits or otherwise provides the completed appraisal or valuation study to the AMC or its assignee unless a mutually agreed upon alternate arrangement has been previously established in good faith.