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

1. (1) 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-in-training and unless said person shall have acquired at least the following satisfactory professional field and office experience while enrolled as a land surveyor-in-training: Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors,

   1. (A) If enrolled as a land surveyor-in-training prior to January 1, 2006 pursuant to the provisions of subsection (1) or (2) of section 327.312, RSMo, said person shall have acquired at least two (2) years of satisfactory professional field and office experience in land surveying under the immediate personal supervision of a licensed professional land surveyor;
   2. (B) If enrolled as a land surveyor-in-training prior to January 1, 2006 pursuant to the provisions of subsection (3) of section 327.312, RSMo, said person shall have acquired at least one (1) year of satisfactory professional field and office experience in land surveying under the immediate personal supervision of a licensed professional land surveyor; and
   3. (C) If enrolled as a land surveyor-in-training on or after January 1, 2006 pursuant to the provisions of subsection (1), (2) or (3) of section 327.312, RSMo, 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.

2. (2) For professional field and office experience in land surveying to be deemed satisfactory, the applicant shall have obtained at least one-third (1/3) of the required experience as field experience and at least one-third (1/3) of the required experience as office experience. Furthermore, all professional field and office experience in land surveying shall be completed under the immediate personal supervision of a licensed professional land surveyor as defined in 20 CSR 2030-13.020. In evaluating satisfactory professional field and office experience in land surveying, credit shall be given as follows:

   1. (A) Party chief—year for year;
   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) Engineering or construction surveying work experience will receive no more than twenty-five percent (25%) credit (the maximum credit given shall be no more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the total experience required).

AUTHORITY: sections 327.041 and 327.314, RSMo Supp. 2006 and 327.312, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 30- 5.110. Original rule filed March 16, 1970, and Landscape Architects 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.

*Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001; 327.312, RSMo 1983, amended 1999; and 327.314, RSMo 1983, amended 1999, 2001.