21-56.0602. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: INDIVIDUAL

(a) General. A person desiring to become a Professional Land Surveyor must make application to the Board on a form prescribed and furnished by the Board.

(b) Request. A request for the application form may be made at the Board address.

(c) Application Form. All persons applying to be licensed as a Professional Land Surveyor shall apply using the standard application form. This form requires the applicant to set forth personal background, plus educational background, land surveying experience, and references. A passport-type photograph for identification purposes is required also.

(d) Supplemental Form. Persons who initially applied for registration as a land surveyor, but were not eligible initially to be admitted to the examination for principles and practice of land surveying, must supplement their initial applications upon ultimately applying for the second examination. The applicant must supplement the initial application by using the supplemental form, which requires the listing of land surveying experience from the date of the initial application to the date of the supplemental application. Five references shall be submitted which are current to within one year of the examination date.

(e) Reference Forms:

(1) Persons applying to take the examination for the fundamentals of land surveying or the examination for principles and practice must submit to the Board names of individuals who are familiar with the applicant's work, character and reputation. The names are submitted by the applicant on the application form.

(2) Persons applying for the fundamentals of land surveying examination must submit three references, one of which must be Professional Land Surveyors. Persons applying for the principles and practice examination must submit five references, two of which must be a Professional Land Surveyor.

(3) In addition to the applicant submitting names to the Board of such individuals, those individuals listed are required to submit to the Board their evaluations of the applicant on reference forms supplied them by the applicant. Such information is considered confidential and will not be released by the Board.

(4) The reference form requires the individual evaluating the applicant to state the evaluating individual's profession, knowledge of the applicant and other information concerning the applicant's land surveying experience, character and reputation.

(5) The reference forms will be received by the applicant along with the application for licensure. The reference forms are then to be distributed by the applicant to the persons listed on the application as references. It is the applicant's responsibility to see that the individuals listed as references return the forms to the Board prior to the filing deadline for the examination applied for by the applicant.

(f) Fees:

(1) Regular. The registration fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) and appropriate examination fee for those applying for registration based upon examination, experience, character and exhibit are payable with the filing of the application.

(2) Comity. The registration fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) and appropriate examination fee for those applying for registration based upon comity are payable with the filing of the application.

(3) Examination. The examination fee for any applicant is payable with the filing of the application in the amount of the actual cost of the examination plus an administrative fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00).