Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 2030 - Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Professional Landscape Architects
Chapter 13 - Supervision
Section 20 CSR 2030-13.020 - Immediate Personal Supervision for Professional Land Surveyors
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule is being amended to provide more clarity regarding the licensee's contact with the client and to specify guidelines in circumstances where a licensee in responsible charge of the work is unavailable to complete the work.
(1) Immediate personal supervision is a combination of activities by which a professional land surveyor maintains control over those decisions that are the basis for the findings, conclusions, analysis, rationale, details, and judgments that are embodied in the development and preparation of plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys, or other technical submissions. Immediate personal supervision requires providing personal direction, oversight, inspection, observation, and supervision of work being performed.
(2) Communications between the professional land surveyor and those persons who are performing the work include, but are not limited to, use of any of the following ways: direct face-to-face communications; written communications; U.S. mail; private express package delivery; electronic mail; facsimiles; telecommunications; or other current technology; provided that the professional land surveyor retains, maintains, and asserts continuing control and judgment.
(3) The professional land surveyor who signs and seals plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys, or other technical submissions in accordance with the provisions of section 327.411, RSMo, must be knowledgeable of decisions made during preparation of the documents in sufficient detail as to be able to personally answer any questions regarding substantive decisions.
(4) Plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys, or other technical submissions will be deemed to have been prepared under the immediate personal supervision of a professional land surveyor when the following circumstances exist:
(5) During a land survey the professional land surveyor shall:
(6) The plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys, or other technical submissions shall be signed and sealed according to section 327.411, RSMo.
*Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001.