California Code of Regulations
Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations
Division 5 - Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
Article 2 - Applications
Section 425 - Experience Requirements-Professional Land Surveyors

(a) An applicant for licensure as a professional land surveyor shall be granted credit towards the experience requirements contained in Sections 8741 and 8742 of the Code, for the following education curriculum:

(b) All qualifying work experience in land surveying shall be performed under the responsible charge of a person legally authorized to practice land surveying. An applicant shall possess at least two years of actual responsible training experience in land surveying which shall involve at least four of the land surveying activities specified in subdivisions (a)-(g) and (k)-(n) of Section 8726 of the Code. Qualifying experience in activities specified in subdivision (a), (b), (k), (m), and (n) of Section 8726 shall not exceed one year in total. Qualifying experience shall be computed on an actual time worked basis, but not to exceed forty hours per week.

(c) For purposes of Section 8742 of the Code, the terms "responsible field training" and "responsible office training" include the land surveying activities specified in subdivisions (a)-(g) and (k)-(n) of Section 8726 of the Code performed in a field or office environment. Responsible training means the exercise of independent judgment under the responsible charge of a person legally authorized to practice land surveying.

(d) Computation of qualifying experience for a license as a professional land surveyor shall be to the date of filing of the application, or it shall be to the final filing date announced for the examination if the application is filed within a period of thirty (30) days preceding the final filing date announced for such examination.

(e) An applicant for licensure as a land surveyor who holds a valid and unexpired license as a civil engineer is exempt from the application requirements of subdivisions (b) and (c) of this section provided he or she submits sufficient documentation that he or she has a minimum of two years of actual broad based progressive experience in land surveying as required by Business and Professions Code Section 8742(a)(3). For purposes of this subdivision and Section 8742(a)(3) of the Code, "actual broad based progressive experience in land surveying" shall involve at least four of the land surveying activities specified in subdivisions (a)-(g) and (k)-(n) of Section 8726 of the Code. All qualifying work experience in land surveying shall be performed under the responsible charge of a person legally authorized to practice land surveying. Qualifying experience in activities specified in subdivisions (a), (b), (k), (m), and (n) of Section 8726 shall not exceed six months in total. Qualifying experience shall be computed on an actual time worked basis, but not to exceed forty hours per week. Time used to qualify for the civil engineer license, including that given for educational credit, shall not be used to qualify for the land surveyor license, except for the six months allowed for the activities specified in subdivisions (a), (b), (k), (m), and (n) of Section 8726.