Arizona Administrative Code › Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Chapter 30 - BOARD OF TECHNICAL REGISTRATION › Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section R4-30-102 - Home Inspection Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions apply to home inspection
				  requirements in this Chapter:
1.
				"Parallel Inspection" means a home inspection completed by an applicant during
				the application process that is supervised by a certified home inspector acting
				as the Parallel Inspector, in the presence of no more than three other
				applicants. The applicant shall produce a written report for each Parallel
				Inspection, which the supervising certified home inspector, serving as the
				Parallel Inspector, shall review, analyze, correct, and return to the applicant
				within 10 calendar days after receiving the written report. The Parallel
				Inspector shall notate and instruct the applicant so that each report meets the
				Standards of Professional Practice for Arizona Home Inspectors. The applicant
				shall not perform any fee-paid Home Inspections during this Parallel Inspection
				period.
2. "Parallel Inspector"
				means an Arizona Certified Home Inspector who performs parallel inspections for
				a home inspector applicant so that the applicant can obtain a certification to
				conduct home inspections. A Parallel Inspector shall be in good standing with
				the Board and shall not have received any disciplinary action from the Board
				within the preceding year. The Parallel Inspector shall have been continuously
				certified by the Board as a Home Inspector for at least three years and shall
				have conducted at least 250 fee-paid home inspections in the State of Arizona.
				The Applicant shall provide a signed affirmation from the Parallel Inspector
				affirming that the Parallel Inspector has met this criteria to the Board with
				the application for certification.
3. "Peer Review" means a home inspection
				performed alongside a supervising Peer Reviewer in order to comply with the
				terms of Board ordered discipline. The Arizona Certified Home Inspector subject
				to Board ordered discipline shall, at the conclusion of each Peer Review,
				submit a written Home Inspection Report to the Peer Reviewer for analysis and
				review. The Peer Reviewer shall notate and instruct the Arizona Certified Home
				Inspector subject to Board ordered discipline in order for the report to meet
				the Standards of Professional Practice for Arizona Home Inspectors. The Arizona
				Certified Home Inspector subject to Board ordered discipline shall not perform
				any fee-paid Home Inspections during this Peer Review period.
4. "Peer Reviewer" means an Arizona Certified
				Home Inspector performing peer review inspections for a home inspector subject
				to Board ordered discipline so that inspector can fulfill the terms of the
				ordered discipline. A Peer Reviewer shall be in good standing with the Board
				and shall not have received any disciplinary action from the Board within the
				preceding three years. The Peer Reviewer shall have been continuously certified
				by the Board as a home inspector for at least five years and shall have
				conducted at least 250 fee-paid home inspections in the State of Arizona. The
				Arizona Certified Home Inspector subject to Board ordered discipline shall
				provide the Board with a signed affirmation from the Peer Reviewer affirming
				that the Peer Reviewer has met these criterion at the conclusion of each peer
				review inspection.
5. "Report
				Checklist Supplement" a tool designed to assist home inspector applicants,
				parallel inspectors, peer reviewers, application reviewers, enforcement
				advisory evaluators and certified home inspectors when reviewing or filling out
				an application for home inspector certification and a home inspection report.
				The "Report Checklist Supplement" is not a substitute for the current version
				of the "Standards of Professional Practice."