A. The director of department of public works shall obtain from the Nevada real estate division a list of all general appraisers in Lyon County. The director shall send a request for qualification to each appraiser on that list to determine which appraisers are interested in performing appraisals for sale or lease of city property. The request for qualifications shall ask the appraiser to designate whether he or she is willing and qualified to provide an appraisal for the following four types of property: residential; general commercial/industrial; ranches; and open space. The request shall also ask whether the appraiser will and is qualified to appraise city owned property to be leased. An appraiser who fails to respond to the request for qualifications for at least one category of property within the time specified in the request is not eligible to perform appraisals for the city until requests for qualifications are next released.
B. From the responses to the request for qualifications the director shall prepare a list of appraisers qualified to conduct appraisals of real property offered for sale or lease by the council. The following standards shall be used to determine minimum qualifications:
1. The appraiser must possess all necessary licenses;
2. The appraiser must not have violated professional appraiser standards or statutory requirements in the performance of appraisals or cannot have been disciplined or fined by any state or federal agency for conduct that relates to the ability of the appraiser to perform the work to be required by the city;
3. The appraiser must have the ability to obtain and maintain insurance coverage as required by the city;
4. The appraiser must have the professional qualifications and experience for the specific appraisal required by the city;
5. During the five (5) years immediately preceding the date of the appointment by the city, the appraiser cannot have filed as a debtor in a business capacity under the provisions of the United States bankruptcy code or breached any contracts with a public agency or person in this state or any other state;
6. The appraiser's application must be truthful and complete; and
7. The appraiser must execute the application form and consent to and have the ability to satisfy all terms and conditions contained in any proposed contract for appraisal services presented by the city.
C. Appraisers on the list shall keep the director informed of any change in the status of standards listed in subsections B1 through B6 of this section. The change in the appraiser's status or failure to maintain the minimum qualifications is cause for immediate removal from the list by the director. The director shall provide written notice to any appraiser of his or her removal.
D. The names on the list shall be labeled to indicate the appraiser's willingness and qualification to perform the following types of appraisals: residential; general commercial/industrial; ranches; open space; and city owned property to be leased. The names on the list must be organized in a random order in a fashion determined by the director.
E. The names of appraisers who are organized in a firm of appraisers may be placed on the list independently if each is independently qualified. No two (2) appraisers from the same firm can be selected to appraise the same real property. An appraiser who cannot be selected because of an appraisal firm relationship retains his or her place on the list for the next appraisal required by the city.
F. From time to time the director shall obtain a new list from the state real estate division and follow the procedures in subsections A and B of this section to assemble a new list. An appraiser whose name is stricken from the list as required in subsection 7-5-3B of this chapter may be added to the new list if properly qualified and responsive. (Ord. 07-01, 1-22-2007)