Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Commerce
Title R156 - Professional Licensing
Rule R156-22 - Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors Licensing Act Rule
Section R156-22-302g - Qualifications for Licensure - Experience Requirements - Specific to Professional Land Surveyor
Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 156-22-302g
Current through Bulletin 2024-24, December 15, 2024
In accordance with Subsection 58-22-302(3)(d), each applicant for licensure as a professional land surveyor shall submit verification of qualifying experience as follows:
(1) The experience may be obtained before, during, or after completing the education requirement.
(2) The experience shall be supervised by one or more licensed professional land surveyors, and certified by the supervisor.
(3) The experience shall include experience in professional land surveying in the following content areas:
(a) experience specific to
field surveying with actual "hands on" surveying, including all of the
following:
(i) operation of various
instrumentation;
(ii) review and
understanding of plan and plat data;
(iii) public land survey systems;
(iv) calculations;
(v) traverse;
(vi) staking procedures;
(vii) field notes and manipulation of various
forms of data encountered in horizontal and vertical studies; and
(b) experience specific to office
surveying, including all of the following:
(i) drafting (including computer plots and
layout);
(ii) reduction of notes
and field survey data;
(iii)
research of public records;
(iv)
preparation and evaluation of legal descriptions; and
(v) preparation of survey- related drawings,
plats, and record of survey maps.
(c) The amount of qualifying experience shall
be as follows:
(1) Each applicant with an
associates degree in land surveying or geomatics shall complete a minimum of
six years of experience as follows:
(a) three
years that complies with Subsection (3)(a); and
(b) three years that complies with Subsection
(3)(b).
(2) Each
applicant with a bachelors degree in land surveying or geomatics shall complete
a minimum of four years of experience as follows:
(a) two years that complies with Subsection
(3)(a); and
(b) two years that
complies with Subsection (3)(b).
(3) Each applicant with a masters degree in
land surveying or geomatics shall complete a minimum of three years of
experience as follows:
(a) one and a half
years that complies with Subsection (3)(a); and
(b) one and a half years that complies with
Subsection (3)(b).
(4)
Each applicant with a doctorate degree in land surveying or geomatics shall
complete a minimum of two years of experience as follows:
(a) one year that complies with Subsection
(3)(a); and
(b) one year that
complies with Subsection (3)(b).
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