PURPOSE: This rule ensures that applicants for licensure as professional engineers meet the minimum requirements for licensure in Missouri.

1. (1) Any person applying for licensure as a professional engineer under section 327.381, RSMo who was licensed, in another state, territory, or possession of the United States or in another country without being required to pass the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) examinations, that is, the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination and the Principles and Practice of Engineering Examination, will be required to pass the NCEES examination(s) which he/she was not required to pass to attain his/her subsequent licensure(s) except that if such person has been actively engaged in the practice of engineering for a period of twenty (20) years prior to the filing of his/her application for comity, such person need not take the NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering Examination.
2. (2) When a comity applicant is required to take one (1) or both of the NCEES Examinations, the applicant will not be licensed by comity until he/she passes all of the examinations required of the applicant.
3. (3) If the applicant fails to pass the required examination(s), he/she will be permitted unlimited reexaminations in accordance with NCEES policy.

AUTHORITY: sections 327.041 and 327.381, RSMo 2016.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 30-4.070. Original rule filed Dec. 8, 1981, effective March 11, 1982. Amended: Filed April 7, 1999, effective Oct. 30, 1999. and Professional Landscape Architects Amended: Filed Aug. 18, 2005, effective March 30, 2006. Moved to 20 CSR 2030- 4.070, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed June 14, 2007, effective Dec. 30, 2007. Non-substantive change filed Oct. 21, 2015, published Dec. 31, 2015. Amended: Filed March 30, 2018, effective Sept. 30, 2018. *Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2010, 2014 and 327.381, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1999, 2001, 2014.