Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 339. Occupational Code § 339.2663

(a) Directly or indirectly engage or attempt to engage in business as an appraisal management company.

(b) Directly or indirectly perform or attempt to perform appraisal management services.

(c) Advertise or hold itself out as engaging in or conducting business as an appraisal management company.

(d) Use the term “appraisal management company”, “mortgage technology company”, or any similar term that tends to indicate the person is licensed under this act.

(a) A person that exclusively engages individuals on an employer-employee basis to perform real estate appraisal services in the normal course of its business and that is responsible for ensuring that the real estate appraisal services performed by its employees comply with the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice.

(b) A person that in the normal course of business enters into an agreement, whether written or otherwise, with an independent contractor appraiser for that appraiser to perform real estate appraisal services and, when the appraisal is complete, cosigns the report with that independent contractor appraiser.

(c) A federally regulated appraisal management company, except as related to the information and fees collected by the department that is to be transmitted to the appraisal subcommittee of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council established under section 1004 of the financial institutions regulatory and interest rate control act of 1978, Public Law 95-630, 12 USC 3303.