New Mexico Statutes
Article 14 - Appraisal Management Company Registration
Section 47-14-9 - Owner requirements.

A. An appraisal management company applying for registration may not be owned by a person or have any principal of the company who has had a license or certificate to act as an appraiser refused, denied, canceled or revoked in this state or in any other state.
B. Each person that owns, is an officer of or has a financial interest in an appraisal management company in this state shall:
(1) be of good moral character, as determined by the board; and
(2) submit to a background investigation, as determined by the board.
C. An appraisal management company shall not be registered by the board or included on the national registry if the company, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, is owned by any person who has had an appraiser license or certificate refused, denied, canceled, surrendered in lieu of revocation or revoked in any state and not subsequently granted or reinstated. A person that owns more than ten percent of an appraisal management company shall be of good moral character, as determined by the board, and shall submit to a background investigation carried out by the board.
History: Laws 2009, ch. 214, § 9; 2013, ch. 143, § 5.
The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, prohibited the registration of a company that has had a license refused, denied, canceled, surrendered, or revoked; deleted former Paragraph (3) of Subsection B, which required officers of a company to certify that the person has never had a license refused, denied, canceled or revoked; and added Subsection C.

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