PURPOSE: This rule outlines the policy for reexamination of land surveyor-intern and professional land surveyor applicants who fail the examination(s). (1) An applicant for enrollment as a land surveyor-intern failing to make a passing grade on the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) Fundamentals of Surveying Examination may have unlimited opportunities to retake the examination so long as the applicant remains qualified to be examined on the date of the reexamination and providing the applicant applies for reexamination in accordance with NCEES policy.

1. (2) An applicant for examination and licensure as a professional land surveyor failing to make a passing grade on the NCEES Principles and Practice of Surveying Examination may have unlimited opportunities to retake the examination so long as the applicant remains qualified to be examined on the date of the reexamination and providing the applicant applies for reexamination in accordance with NCEES policy.

2. (3) An applicant for examination and licensure as a professional land surveyor failing to make a passing grade on the Missouri Specific Examination may have unlimited opportunities to retake the examination so long as the applicant remains qualified to be examined on the date of the reexamination and providing the following criteria are met:

   1. (A) The applicant applies for reexamination on forms furnished by the board;
   2. (B) The applicant pays the required reexamination fee;
   3. (C) The applicant files his/her application for reexamination on or before the filing deadline established by the board; and
   4. (D) The applicant provides any additional information deemed pertinent to the board.

AUTHORITY: sections 327.041 and 327.341, RSMo 2016, and sections 327.312, 327.313, 327.314, and 327.321, RSMo Supp. 2022.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 30-5.130. Original rule filed Dec. 8, 1981, effective March 11, 1982. Amended: Filed Jan. 12, 1984, effective April 12, 1984. Rescinded and readopted: Filed Oct. 1, 2001, effective April 30, 2002. Moved to 20 CSR 2030-5.130, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Non-substantive change filed Oct. 21, 2015, published Dec. 31, 2015. Amended: Filed May 30, 2018, effective Dec. 30, 2018. 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; 327.313, RSMo 1983, amended 1999, 2014, 2018, 2022; 327.314, RSMo 1983, amended 1999, 2001, 2014, 2022; 327.321, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1983, 1999, 2014, 2018; and 327.341, RSMo 1969, amended 1999, 2014, 2022.