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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) An applicant for licensure as a professional land surveyor shall satisfactorily complete the surveying fundamentals examination and become certified as a surveyor-in-training and subsequently show evidence of experience satisfactory to the board to prepare for the land surveying principles and practice examination.
(b)(1) An applicant for the surveyor-in-training certificate shall show satisfactory evidence of:
(i) graduation from an approved civil engineering curriculum of at least four years, including no less than ten credit hours instruction in surveying;
(ii) six or more years of progressive experience in surveying and knowledge, skill and education deemed equivalent, in accordance with board regulation, to graduation from an approved curriculum in land surveying or civil engineering; or
(iii) an associate's degree in an approved surveying technology curriculum.
(2) An applicant who satisfactorily completes the fundamentals examination shall be certified as a surveyor-in-training without time limitation and may remain certified until such time as the applicant becomes licensed under this act as a professional land surveyor.
(3) An applicant shall show diversification of field and office experience, with at least twenty-five per cent of the applicant's experience in each.
(4) An applicant who is a surveying student who has completed two or more years of an approved curriculum may, subject to board approval, sit for the examination, but such student shall not be eligible for certification until that student shows proof of graduation.
(c) Each applicant for licensure shall be certified as a surveyor-in-training and shall pass an examination in land surveying principles and practice. To qualify for the principles and practice examination, the applicant shall demonstrate:
(1) Four or more years of progressive experience in land surveying work performed under the supervision of a professional land surveyor or a similarly qualified surveyor of a grade or character to fit the applicant to assume responsible charge of the work involved in the practice of land surveying.
(2) Four or more years of progressive teaching experience in an approved curriculum under the supervision of a professional land surveyor or a similarly qualified surveyor of a grade and character to fit the applicant to assume responsible charge of the work involved in the practice of land surveying.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Pennsylvania Statutes Title 63 P.S. Professions and Occupations (State Licensed) § 151.3. Procedure for licensing as professional land surveyor - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-63-ps-professions-and-occupations-state-licensed/pa-st-sect-63-151-3/
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