50 IAC 15-3-9 Voluntary withdrawal of certification

Sec. 9. (a) This section does not apply to an assessor-appraiser who has received a notice under section 6(b) of this rule. (b) An assessor-appraiser who wishes to withdraw his or her certification as an assessor-appraiser must complete and submit to the department a voluntary waiver by U.S. mail, facsimile, or e-mail. A copy of the voluntary waiver is sufficient for submission. However, the voluntary waiver must be signed. The assessor-appraiser's signature on the voluntary waiver indicates that the assessor-appraiser wholly exonerates and holds harmless the department, including its employees, agents, and hearing officers, with respect to the voluntary waiver. (c) Upon receipt of the voluntary waiver, the department will review the voluntary waiver and verify that the assessor-appraiser qualifies to withdraw his or her assessor-appraiser certification. An assessor-appraiser shall be deemed qualified to withdraw his or her certification if the assessor-appraiser meets the qualifications under subsection (b). (d) Upon verification that the assessor-appraiser qualifies for a voluntary waiver, the department will acknowledge, in writing, that the assessor-appraiser has withdrawn his or her certification as an assessor-appraiser and his or her name will be removed from the list of certified assessor-appraisers posted on the department's website. (e) A voluntary waiver under subsection (b) is deemed to be a request to withdraw from all levels of assessor-appraiser certification that the assessor-appraiser has attained as of the date of the voluntary waiver. Submission of the voluntary waiver or a refusal of the department to acknowledge the voluntary waiver because of the assessor-appraiser's ineligibility to voluntarily withdraw certification does not, by itself, constitute grounds for initiating a proceeding under section 6 of this rule.