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-intraining 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. However, 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. (2) 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

3. (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;
   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 AND INSURANCE

than full credit; and

1. (D) Design or construction surveying work experience in the field or office will receive no more than eight (8) months credit.

AUTHORITY: sections 327.041 and 327.314, RSMo 2016, and section 327.312, RSMo Supp. 2019.* 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 Rescinded and readopted: Filed Nov. 1, 2001, effective June 30, 2002.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.

*Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2010, 2014; 327.312, RSMo 1983, amended 1999, 2014, 2018; and 327.314, RSMo 1983, amended 1999, 2001, 2014.