PURPOSE: This rule outlines the experience required of those persons applying for the land surveying examination under section 327.314, RSMo.

1. (1) Prior to January 1, 2024, no person shall apply for examination and licensure as a professional land surveyor in the state of Missouri unless said person is currently enrolled as a land surveyor-intern and unless said person shall have acquired at least four (4) years of satisfactory professional field and office experience in land surveying under the immediate personal supervision of a professional land surveyor upon their date of enrollment.

2. (2) On or after January 1, 2024, no person shall apply for examination and licensure as a professional land surveyor in the state of Missouri unless said person is currently enrolled as a land surveyor-intern and meets the requirements of subsection (A).

   1. (A) Any person may apply for examination and licensure as a professional land surveyor who is currently enrolled as a land surveyor-intern and who:

      1. 1. Is a high school graduate or holds a GED and who has

graduated and received a baccalaureate degree in an approved curriculum, as defined by the board, which shall include at least fifteen (15) semester hours of approved surveying course work, as defined by the board, of which at least six (6) semester hours shall be in the legal aspects of boundary surveying, and shall have acquired at least four (4) years of satisfactory field and office experience in land surveying under the immediate personal supervision of a professional land surveyor;

1. 2. Is a high school graduate or holds a GED and who

has passed at least sixty (60) hours of college credit which shall include at least fifteen (15) semester hours of approved surveying course work, as defined by the board, of which at least six (6) semester hours shall be in legal aspects of boundary surveying, and shall have acquired at least five (5) years of satisfactory field and office experience in land surveying under the immediate personal supervision of a professional land surveyor; or

1. 3. Is a high school graduate or holds a GED and who has

passed at least fifteen (15) semester hours of approved surveying coursework, as defined by the board, of which at least six (6) semester hours shall be in legal aspects of land surveying, and shall have acquired at least six (6) years of satisfactory field and office experience in land surveying under the immediate personal supervision of a professional land surveyor.

1. (B) Up to one (1) year of post-secondary education, approved by the board, may count as equivalent work experience.
2. (C) Any person enrolled as a land surveyor-in-training or land surveyor-intern prior to January 1, 2024, shall only be required to meet the requirements in place pursuant to their enrollment.

1. (3) Applicants may accrue up to one (1) year (twelve (12) months) credit for satisfactory land surveying experience earned while in the military even if that experience was not completed under the immediate personal supervision of a licensed professional land surveyor.

2. (4) For professional field and office experience in land surveying to be deemed satisfactory, the applicant shall have obtained at least twenty-four (24) months of the required experience as field experience and at least sixteen (16) months of the required experience as office experience. In evaluating satisfactory professional field and office experience in land surveying, credit shall be given as follows:

   1. (A) Party chief—year for year credit;
   2. (B) Office work (combination of record research, survey calculations, and preparation of property descriptions as relating to property boundary surveys and/or the reestablishment of the U.S. public land survey corners)—year-for-year credit;
   3. (C) Individual evaluation may result in less than full credit; and
   4. (D) Design or construction surveying work experience in the field or office will receive no more than eight (8) months credit.
3. (5) Sections (1), (2), and (4) shall not apply to any applicant for licensure by comity who received waiver of educational and examination requirements under 20 CSR 2030-4.080(4).

AUTHORITY: section 327.041, RSMo 2016, and sections 327.312 and 327.314, RSMo Supp. 2022.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 30- 5.110. Original rule filed March 16, 1970, effective April 16, 1970. Amended: Filed Dec. 8, 1981, effective March 11, 1982. Amended: Filed Jan. 12, 1984, effective April 12, 1984. Amended: Filed July 20, 1987, effective Oct. 25, 1987. Rescinded and readopted: Filed Nov. 1, 2001, effective June 30, 2002. Moved to 20 CSR 2030-5.110, 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 Sept. 29, 2015, effective March 30, 2016. Amended: Filed July 18, 2019, effective Jan. 30, 2020. Amended: Filed Oct. 6, 2020, effective April 30, 2021. Amended: Filed Oct. 26, 2022, effective April 30, 2023. *Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2010, 2014; 327.312, RSMo 1983, amended 1999, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022; and 327.314, RSMo 1983, amended 1999, 2001, 2014, 2022.