Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) The board shall
evaluate the nature and quality of the experience found in the supplementary
experience record or the NCEES record experience information and shall
determine if the work is satisfactory to the board for the purpose of issuing a
license to the applicant. The board shall evaluate the supplementary experience
record for evidence of the applicant's competency to be placed in responsible
charge of land surveying work of a similar character.
(b) The following standards are to be used in
evaluating experience:
(1) All experience
must be obtained under the direction and guidance of one or more registered
professional land surveyors.
(2)
Experience shall be obtained in the area of boundary surveying and boundary
determination only.
(3) Experience
to be counted toward registration shall be counted from the date the applicant
passes the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)
fundamentals of land surveying examination.
(4) The required experience is divided into
two types of experience, which are as follows:
(A) Office experience. The required office
experience will consist of a minimum of three months of acceptable experience
within each of the following categories, herein referred to as "acceptable
office experience" for a minimum of one year:
(i) Research of county records and records
search;
(ii) Legal principles,
boundary reconciliation, and deed sketches;
(iii) Computations/traverse accuracy
analysis;
(iv)
Documentation/description/monumentation/preparation of final surveys. All two
years of the experience requirement may be obtained as office experience.
(B) Field experience.
The remaining acceptable experience, if not within the previously listed office
experience categories, must be within the categories following:
(i) Field accuracies and tolerances;
(ii) Field traverse notes;
(iii) Monument search based on
deed sketches.
(c) In the review of surveying experience,
the board may consider additional elements including:
(1) whether the experience was sufficiently
complex and diverse, and of an increasing standard of quality and
responsibility;
(2) whether the
quality of the surveying work shows minimum technical competency;
(3) whether the experience was gained in
accordance with the provisions of the Surveying Act and board rules;
(4) whether non-traditional surveying
experience such as sales or military service provides sufficient depth of
practice;
(5) whether short
engagements have had an impact upon professional growth;
(6) whether the applicant intends to practice
or offer surveying services in Texas;
(7) whether the experience was supplemented
by training courses or participation in surveying organizations or societies
that contribute to the applicant's competence and readiness for registration.
(d) Surveying experience
may be considered satisfactory for the purpose of registration provided that:
(1) the experience is gained during an
engagement longer than three months in duration;
(2) the experience, when taken as a whole,
meets the minimum time;
(3) the
experience is not anticipated and has actually been gained at the time of
application; and
(4) the time
granted for the experience claimed does not exceed the calendar time available
for the periods of employment claimed.
