The State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors may conduct random audits each year of reported continuing education credit after each license renewal period according to the following procedures:
(1) The population to be audited for continuing professional competency compliance shall consist of those licensees who are renewing their licenses with the board and who:
- (A) Are not claiming PDH and qualify for an exemption under 17 CAR § 285-1007; or
- (B) Do not report sufficient hours as provided in 17 CAR § 285-1010;
- (2) The sample for the audit shall be chosen not less than one hundred eighty (180) days after the renewal period is ended;
- (3) The sample size for each audit group shall be two percent (2%) of the population, chosen at random, without replacement;
- (4) Each licensee chosen for audit shall provide within thirty (30) days, on the form supplied by the board, a log of continuing education obtained during the previous licensing period, with supporting documents attached, according to the requirements specified in 17 CAR § 185-1006; and
- (5) Those auditees failing to respond or unable to verify their claims to continuing education may be served with a complaint and charged with having obtained renewal of their licenses by false statements according to the provisions and procedures in 17 CAR §§ 285-801 – 285-804.