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 4 - Applications
Section 20 CSR 2030-4.080 - Evaluation-Comity Applications- Professional Land Surveyors

(1) Any person applying for licensure as a professional land surveyor under section 327.381, RSMo, who was licensed in another state, territory, or possession of the United States or in another country without being required to pass the National Council of Examiners in Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) examinations, that is, the Fundamentals of Land Surveying Examination and the Principles and Practice of Land Surveying Examination; will be required to pass the NCEES examination(s) which he/she was not required to pass to attain his/her subsequent licensure(s) except that-

(2) Any person applying for licensure as a professional land surveyor under section 327.381, RSMo, shall take and pass the Missouri Specific Examination covering Missouri surveying practice and Missouri statutes and rules relating to the practice of land surveying.

(3) When a comity applicant is required to take one (1) or both of the NCEES examinations as well as the Missouri Specific Examination, the applicant will not be licensed by comity until he or she passes all of the examinations required of the applicant.

(4) Within six (6) months of an application for licensure by comity from a person, or within thirty (30) days of an application for licensure by comity from a nonresident or resident military spouse, who meets the following criteria, the board shall waive the requirement of passing the NCEES examination if it finds that the applicant:

(5) The board may require an applicant relying on section (4) to disclose any disciplinary action taken against the applicant by any oversight body in any jurisdiction in the United States, and may deny waiver and defer action or deny an application until such disciplinary action is resolved.

(6) No waiver of education or examination requirements granted under section (4) shall relieve any applicant of the requirement to take the Missouri-specific examination mandated by 20 CSR 2030-5.120(2). Nonresident and resident military spouses applying pursuant to section 324.009.3.(2), RSMo, shall not be required to take the Missouri specific examination mandated by 20 CSR 2030-5.120(2).