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Sec. 5.041. Training of Appraisal Review Board Members

(a) The comptroller shall:

(1) approve curricula and provide materials for use in training and educating members of an appraisal review board; and

(2) supervise a course for training and education of appraisal review board members and issue certificates indicating course completion.

(b) A member of the appraisal review board established for an appraisal district must complete the course established under Subsection (a). A member of the appraisal review board may not participate in a hearing conducted by the board unless the person has completed the course established under Subsection (a) and received a certificate of course completion.

(c) The comptroller may contract with service providers to assist with the duties imposed under Subsection (a), but the course required may not be provided by an appraisal district or a taxing unit. The comptroller may assess a fee to recover a portion of the costs incurred for the training course, but the fee may not exceed $50 per person trained.

(d) The course material for the course required under Subsection (a) is the comptroller's Appraisal Review Board Manual in use on the effective date of this section. The manual shall be updated regularly. It may be revised on request, in writing, to the comptroller. The revision language must be approved on the unanimous agreement of a committee selected by the comptroller and representing, equally, taxpayers and chief appraisers. The person requesting the revision shall pay the costs of mediation if the comptroller determines that mediation is required.

(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection (b), an appraisal review board member appointed after a course offering may continue to serve until the completion of the subsequent course offering.

(f) The comptroller may not advise a property owner, a property owner's agent, an appraisal district, or an appraisal review board on a matter that the comptroller knows is the subject of a protest to the appraisal review board.

Added by 1997 Tex. Laws, p. 2312, ch. 691, Sec. 1.

Cross References:
Hearing on protest, see Sec. 41.45.
Hearing procedures, see Sec. 41.66.