Section 339.17202. Required professional experience; acceptability; verification.

(1) Professional surveying experience required by the act for examination admission may include the following types of surveying work, which shall include both field and office practice:

(a)   Land surveying, which is the surveying of an area for its correct determination or description for its conveyance or for the establishment or reestablishment of a land boundary and the designing or design coordination of the plotting of land and the subdivision of land.

(b)    Geodetic surveying, which includes surveying for a determination of the size and shape of the earth, both horizontally and vertically, and the precise positioning of

points on the earth utilizing  angular  and   linear measurements through spatially oriented spherical geometry.

(c)    Utilizing  and  managing  land  information systems through  the establishment of datums and local coordinate systems and points of reference.

(d)   Engineering and architectural surveying for design and  construction layout of infrastructure.

(e)     Cartographic  surveying  for   the  making  of  maps,  including  topographic   and hydrographic mapping.

(2)  Acceptable professional experience shall be obtained in a varied and increasingly responsible position under the direction  of  a  licensed professional surveyor.

(3)   An applicant shall have the applicant's employers or supervisors, or both, submit verification of experience forms to the board  and  other references   required  by  the act. Decisions by  the  board   regarding satisfactory   experience  shall  be  based   upon an  evaluation  of  this information.

History: 1985 AACS; 1995 AACS.