Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
(a) An applicant for licensure as a
professional engineer whose qualifications meet all requirements of the code
and rules of the Board will be allowed to appear for only the second division
of the written examination prescribed by Section
6755 of the Code if he or she
meets one or more of the following requirements:
(1) Holds valid licensure as a professional
engineer in another branch in California.
(2) Holds valid certification as an
engineer-in-training in another state obtained by passing a written examination
in which the content of the examination is designed to test the candidate's
knowledge of fundamental engineering subjects, including mathematics and the
basic sciences.
(3) Is a graduate
of an approved engineering curriculum and submits satisfactory evidence to the
Board that he or she has fifteen (15) years or more of additional engineering
work experience satisfactory to the Board that has been gained in addition to
graduation, or any other education experience, and while performing engineering
tasks under the direction of a person legally authorized to practice in an
applicant's branch of engineering.
(4) Is a graduate of a non-approved
engineering curriculum or an approved engineering technology curriculum and
submits satisfactory evidence to the Board that he or she has seventeen (17)
years or more of additional engineering work experience satisfactory to the
Board that has been gained in addition to graduation, or any other education
experience, and while performing engineering tasks under the direction of a
person legally authorized to practice in an applicant's branch of
engineering.
(5) Is a graduate of
an approved engineering curriculum and an approved post-graduate engineering
curriculum and submits satisfactory evidence to the Board that he or she has
fourteen (14) years or more of additional engineering work experience
satisfactory to the Board that has been gained in addition to graduation, or
any other education experience, and while performing engineering tasks under
the direction of a person legally authorized to practice in an applicant's
branch of engineering.
(6) Is a
graduate of a nonapproved engineering curriculum or an approved engineering
technology curriculum and an approved postgraduate engineering curriculum and
submits satisfactory evidence to the Board that he or she has fourteen (14)
years or more of additional engineering work experience satisfactory to the
Board that has been gained in addition to graduation, or any other education
experience, and while performing engineering tasks under the direction of a
person legally authorized to practice in an applicant's branch of
engineering.
(7) Is the holder of
an earned doctorate in engineering from a department or program at a university
or college where the undergraduate engineering curriculum in the same branch of
engineering is an approved engineering curriculum; or is serving in a
tenure-track faculty position in an approved engineering curriculum at the
level of Assistant Professor or higher.
(b) An applicant for licensure as a land
surveyor whose qualifications meet all requirements of the code and rules of
the Board will be allowed to appear for only the second division of the written
examination prescribed by Section
8741 of the Code if he or she
meets one or more of the following requirements:
(1) Holds valid licensure as a professional
civil engineer in California.
(2)
Holds valid certification as a land surveyor-in-training in another state
obtained by passing a written examination in which the content of the
examination is designed to test the candidate's knowledge of fundamentals of
land surveying subjects, including mathematics and the basic
sciences.
(3) Is a graduate of an
approved land surveying curriculum and submits satisfactory evidence to the
Board that he or she has fifteen (15) years or more of additional land
surveying work experience satisfactory to the Board that has been gained in
addition to graduation, or any other education experience, and while performing
land surveying tasks under the direction of a person legally authorized to
practice land surveying.
(4) Is a
graduate of a non-approved land surveying curriculum and submits satisfactory
evidence to the Board that he or she has seventeen (17) years or more of
additional land surveying work experience satisfactory to the Board that has
been gained in addition to graduation, or any other education experience, and
while performing land surveying tasks under the direction of a person legally
authorized to practice in land surveying.
(5) Is a graduate of an approved land
surveying curriculum and an approved post-graduate land surveying curriculum
and submits satisfactory evidence to the Board that he or she has fourteen (14)
years or more of additional land surveying work experience satisfactory to the
Board that has been gained in addition to graduation, or any other education
experience, and while performing land surveying tasks under the direction of a
person legally authorized to practice in land surveying.
(6) Is a graduate of a non-approved land
surveying curriculum and an approved post-graduate land surveying curriculum
and submits satisfactory evidence to the Board that he or she has sixteen (16)
years or more of additional land surveying work experience satisfactory to the
Board that has been gained in addition to graduation, or any other education
experience, and while performing land surveying tasks under the direction of a
person legally authorized to practice in land surveying.
(c) An applicant for a California
certification as an engineer-in-training or a land surveyor-in-training who
holds valid certification in another state obtained as in (a)(2) or (b)(2)
above may be issued a California certificate.
1. Amendment
filed 7-27-73; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 73, No. 30). For
prior history, see Register 71, No. 29.
2. Amendment filed 1-15-82;
effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 82, No. 3).
3.
Amendment filed 8-10-83; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 83, No.
33).
4. New subsection (a)(5) filed 12-5-94; operative 1-4-95
(Register 94, No. 49).
5. Change without regulatory effect amending
subsection (b) filed 7-7-97 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 97, No. 28).
6. Change without regulatory
effect amending section and NOTE filed 4-19-99 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 99, No. 17).
7. Repealer of subsection (a)(5)
and amendment of subsection (b)(1) filed 1-25-2001; operative 2-24-2001
(Register 2001, No. 4).
8. Amendment of subsections (a)(3)-(4), new
subsections (a)(5)-(6), amendment of subsections (b)(3)-(4) and new subsections
(b)(5)-(6) filed 9-9-2002; operative 10-9-2002 (Register 2002, No.
37).
9. Change without regulatory effect amending section filed
7-2-2004 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2004, No. 27).
10. Amendment of subsections
(a)(4)-(6), new subsection (a)(7) and amendment of subsections (b)(4)-(6) filed
4-11-2011; operative 5-11-2011 (Register 2011, No. 15).
11.
Amendment of subsections (a)(2) and (b)(2), repealer of subsection (b)(7) and
amendment of subsection (c) filed 6-22-2016; operative 10-1-2016 (Register
2016, No. 26).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
6716,
6755,
8710
and
8741,
Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections
6706.3,
6710,
6732,
6751,
6755,
6755.1,
6759,
8741,
8742,
8745
and
8748,
Business and Professions Code.
