Professions and vocations: real estate appraisers: real estate brokers.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and defines "real estate broker" for its purposes to include a person who, among other things, (1) sells or offers to sell, buys or offers to buy, solicits prospective sellers or purchasers of, solicits or obtains listings of, or negotiates the purchase, sale or exchange of real property or a business opportunity, or (2) leases or rents or offers to lease or rent, or places for rent, or solicits listings of places for rent, or solicits for prospective tenants, or negotiates the sale, purchase, or exchanges of leases on real property, or on a business opportunity, or collects rents from real property, or improvements thereon, or from business opportunities. This bill would provide that a person acting in the capacity of an outdoor advertising representative, as defined, in connection with a specified transaction is not a real estate broker. Existing law, the Real Estate Appraisers' Licensing and Certification Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of persons who engage in specified real estate appraisal activity by the Chief of the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers. Existing law prohibits a person from engaging in real estate appraisal activity without obtaining a license issued by the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers (formerly the Office of Real Estate Appraisers) . Existing law requires a licensee to complete specified continuing education requirements in order to renew a license. Existing law requires the bureau to provide on the Internet information regarding, among other things, the status of every license and registration issued by the bureau. This bill would additionally require the bureau to provide, on the Internet, the continuing education course information provided by a licensee when an individual applies for licensure renewal. The bill would also make various nonsubstantive changes.