Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 38, September 20, 2024
A. An applicant for
registration as an architect, engineer, geologist, landscape architect, or land
surveyor shall submit a completed application package for professional
registration that contains the following:
1.
Evidence of successful completion of the current national professional
examination or waiver of the examination pursuant to A.R.S. §
32-126 and R4-30-203 in the
category, and branch if applicable, for which registration is sought.
Applicants shall arrange to have their examination results sent directly to the
Board from the applicable testing agency holding the examination
results;
2. Name, residence
address, mailing address if different from residence, email and telephone
number, of the applicant;
3. Date
of birth and social security number of the applicant;
4. Citizenship or legal residence of the
applicant;
5. Category, and branch
of engineering if applicable, for which the applicant is seeking
registration;
6. A detailed
explanatory statement and documentation, regarding;
a. Any disciplinary action, including
suspension and revocation, taken by any state or jurisdiction on any
professional or occupational registration, certification, or license held by
the applicant in any state or jurisdiction, within five years before the date
of application;
b. Refusal of any
professional or occupational registration, certification, or license to the
applicant by any state or jurisdiction, within five years before the date of
application;
c. Any pending
disciplinary action in any state or jurisdiction on any professional or
occupational registration, certification, or license held by the
applicant;
d. Any alias or other
name used by the applicant; and
e.
Any conviction of the applicant for a felony or misdemeanor, other than a minor
traffic violation, within five years before the date of application.
7. State or jurisdiction in which
the applicant holds any other professional or occupational registration,
certification, or license, type of registration, certification or license
number, year granted, how registration, certification, or license was granted
(by examination, education, experience, or reciprocity);
8. State or jurisdiction in which the
applicant has pending an application for any type of professional or
occupational license, registration, or certification, type of license,
registration or certification being sought, and the status of the
application;
9. Name, mailing
address, years attended, graduation date, major, and type of degree received
from each college, university, or educational institution the applicant
attended;
10. Certified transcripts
sent directly to the Board from the registrar of each college, university, or
educational institution the applicant attended, unless previously provided to
the Board pursuant to
R4-30-204;
11. Name, current address, and telephone
number of the applicant's current and former employers (the names of companies
within the last ten-year period) in the category for which registration is
sought; dates of employment; applicant's title; description of the work
performed; and number of hours worked per week, unless previously provided to
the Board pursuant to
R4-30-204;
12. Names and addresses of immediate
supervisors in past and present employment in the category for which
registration is sought. An applicant who has been working in the category for
which registration is sought for 10 or more years shall provide the names and
address of all immediate supervisors during the most recent ten-year period. If
an applicant cannot supply the names and addresses of supervisors for at least
three engagements, the applicant shall provide to the Board a written, sworn
statement explaining the inability to provide this information, and the names
and addresses of three professional references, unrelated to the applicant, at
least two of whom are registered in the category for which registration is
sought, unless previously provided to the Board pursuant to
R4-30-204;
13. A release
authorizing the Board to investigate the applicant's education, experience,
moral character, and repute;
14.
Certificate of Experience Report from the applicant's present and past
immediate supervisors. The applicant shall also provide Certificate of
Experience Record from additional professional references as required by the
Board. The applicant shall provide the name, address, and telephone numbers of
all references. The applicant shall ensure that completed reference forms are
provided to the Board, but the Board must receive them directly from the
reference;
15. Evidence of
successful completion, or waiver by the Board, of the applicable fundamentals
examination. An applicant for registration who has successfully completed a
fundamentals examination in another jurisdiction in the category for which
registration is sought equivalent to the examination for that category
administered in Arizona shall submit proof of examination directly from the
authority that administered the original examination. An applicant seeking
professional registration as an engineer, geologist or land surveyor shall pass
the applicable fundamentals examination before admission to the professional
examination. An applicant seeking professional registration as a geologist may
take the fundamentals examination on the same day;
16. Certification that the information
provided to the Board is accurate, true and complete; and
17. The applicable fee.
B. If an applicant does not have the required
education and experience for registration, the Board may, upon request of the
applicant, hold the application for a period of time that does not exceed one
year from the date the application is filed with the Board. All timeframes
adopted pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 6, Article 7.1 are suspended during the
above-referenced time.
C. An
applicant holding a certificate of qualification issued by one of the national
examination councils recognized in
R4-30-203(B) shall
arrange to have the record forwarded to the Board by the national registration
body. If the forms provided by the national examination council contain all the
information described in A.R.S. §
32-122.01 and subsection (A), the
Board may accept the forms in lieu of requiring the applicant to furnish the
information directly to the Board.
D. The Board staff shall review all
applications and, if necessary, refer completed applications to an evaluator
deemed qualified by the board and chosen from the pool of enforcement advisory
committee members for evaluation. If the application for registration is
complete and in the proper form and the Board staff or the evaluator is
satisfied that all statements on the application are true and that the
applicant is eligible in all other aspects to be registered in the field for
which the application was filed, the Board staff or evaluator shall recommend
that the Board certify the applicant as eligible for registration. If for any
reason the Board staff or the evaluator is not satisfied that all of the
statements on the application are true or that the applicant is eligible in all
respects for registration, the Board staff shall make a further investigation
of the applicant. The Board staff and evaluator shall submit recommendations to
the Board for approval. The Board may also require an applicant to submit
additional oral or written information if the applicant has not furnished
satisfactory evidence of qualifications for registration.
E. The Board may accept documentation that an
applicant has passed a written national examination in the area for which
registration is sought from a national council of which the Board is a
member.
F. The Board shall not
accept an application for registration renewal unless the applicant has
responded to the questions on the application relating to good moral character
and other misconduct and signed the application for renewal. The Board shall
return an incomplete application to the applicant which may result in
assessment of a delinquent renewal fee.
G. An applicant may withdraw an application
for registration by written request to the Board. Any fee paid by the applicant
is non-refundable. If an applicant withdraws an application, the Board shall
close the file. An applicant whose file has been closed and who later wishes to
apply for professional registration shall submit a new application package to
the Board pursuant to
R4-30-201 and R4-30-202.
