TITLE 865 STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION FOR PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS

Amends 865 IAC 1-1-1 to add definitions necessitated by the amendment to IC 25-21.5-5. Amends 865 IAC 1-2-1 to update the education and work experience required of a professional surveyor. Amends 865 IAC 1-2-2 to update the education and work experience required of a surveyor intern. Amends 865 IAC 1-3-2 to specify when a surveyor intern may submit an application for certification. Amends 865 IAC 1-3-3 to specify when applications are to be submitted. Amends 865 IAC 1-4-2 to provide that an applicant for the qualifying exam must meet educational and experience requirements at the time of application. Amends 865 IAC 1-4-3 to provide for computerized testing. Amends 865 IAC 1-4-4 to specify when an applicant must take the exam. Amends 865 IAC 1-4-6 to specify when an applicant may retake the qualifying exam. Amends 865 IAC 1-4-7 to set out when an application is deemed terminated. Repeals 865 IAC 1-4-8. Effective January 1, 2014.

IC 4-22-2.1-5 Statement Concerning Rules Affecting Small Businesses

SECTION 1. 865 IAC 1-1-1 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

Affected: IC 25-21.5

Sec. 1. The definitions in IC 25-21.5-1 and the following definitions apply throughout this title:

SECTION 2. 865 IAC 1-2-1 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

Affected: IC 25-21.5-1-7; IC 25-21.5-5-2

Sec. 1. (a) This section establishes the minimum education and experience requirements under IC 25-21.5-5-2 for admission to the land professional surveyor examination.

(b) Prior to January 3, 2009, the table in this subsection establishes provisions for evaluating combined education and experience to determine if it is sufficient to satisfy minimum registration requirements under IC 25-21.5-5-2 for land surveyor registration applicants. For all levels of education stated, except for no degree, the required experience must be obtained following receipt of a bachelor's degree. However, experience obtained either before or after graduation may be counted in which case the total amount of experience for each educational level stated in the table, except no degree, shall be increased by one (1) year in addition to the amount stated for the particular education level. The requirements are as follows:

Education	Minimum Years of Work Experience
Doctorate in land surveying discipline following bachelor's degree in a board-approved land surveying curriculum	2
Master's degree in land surveying discipline following bachelor's degree in a board-approved land surveying curriculum	3
Bachelor's degree in a board-approved land surveying curriculum	4
Doctorate in land surveying following a bachelor's degree that is not in a board-approved land surveying Curriculum	3
Master's degree in land surveying following bachelor's degree that is not in a board-approved land surveying curriculum	4
Bachelor's degree that is not in a board-approved land surveying curriculum	5
No degree but meets the college course requirements stated in subsection (d)	6

(c) After January 2, 2009, (b) The table in this subsection establishes provisions for evaluating combined education and experience to determine if it is sufficient to satisfy minimum registration requirements under IC 25-21.5-5-2 for land professional surveyor registration applicants. For all levels of education stated, a minimum of one-half (1/2) of the required experience must be obtained following receipt of the first degree obtained. The requirements are as follows:

Education	Minimum Years of Work Experience
Doctorate in land surveying discipline following bachelor's degree in a board-approved land surveying curriculum	2
Master's degree in land surveying discipline following bachelor's degree in a board-approved land surveying curriculum	3
Bachelor's degree in a board-approved land surveying curriculum	4
Doctorate in land surveying following a bachelor's degree that is not in a board-approved land surveying curriculum	3
Master's degree in land surveying following bachelor's degree that is not in a board-approved land surveying curriculum	4
Bachelor's degree that is not in a board-approved land surveying curriculum	5
Associate degree and meets the college course requirements stated in subsection (d) (c)	6

(d) (c) The education of all applicants must include the following minimum level of education:

(e) (d) No degree requirement under this section will be satisfied by obtaining an honorary or correspondence degree.

(f) (e) College courses with a substantial duplication of content may be counted only one (1) time toward the education requirements in this section.

(g) (f) Applicants for land professional surveyor registration or land-surveyor-in-training surveyor intern certification may be required to submit detailed course descriptions of any courses for which credit is claimed.

(h) (g) Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, applicants who hold a valid land-surveyor-in-training surveyor intern certificate do not need any additional education beyond that required for admission to the land-surveyor-in-training fundamentals of surveying examination, so long as they apply for admission to the land professional surveyor examination not later than five (5) years after the first examination application deadline (as provided for in 865 IAC 1-3-3) subsequent to the date the applicant passed the land-surveyor-in-training fundamentals of surveying examination that was the basis for issuance of the land-surveyor-in-training surveyor intern certification.

(i) (h) The board may require an evaluation of foreign education to allow the board to compare an applicant's courses with the board's course requirements.

(j) (i) All land surveying experience required by subsection (b) or subsection (c) must be acquired under the supervision of:

(k) (j) No experience obtained before the applicant's eighteenth birthday shall qualify under this section.

(l) (k) At least one-half (1/2) of the required land surveying experience must be acquired in a state or territory in the United States under the supervision of a land professional surveyor registered in that state or territory.

(m) (l) The land surveying experience must:

(n) (m) At least sixty percent (60%) of an applicant's land surveying experience required under subsection (b) or subsection (c) must be in the activities listed in the following:

(o) (n) The board may require an applicant to provide additional information relating to the applicant's land surveying experience.

SECTION 3. 865 IAC 1-2-2 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

Affected: IC 25-21.5-5-3

Sec. 2. (a) This section establishes the minimum education and experience requirements under IC 25-21.5-5-3 for certification as a surveyor intern. The education and experience requirements of section 1 of this rule for land professional surveyor applicants apply for land-surveyor-in-training surveyor intern applicants, except that applicants with:

(b) An applicant who is enrolled as a senior in a land surveying curriculum in a college or university that has an approved land surveying curriculum may take the last land-surveyor-in-training examination offered on the individual's campus before the applicant's scheduled graduation. This subsection does not apply to any applicant enrolled in any other bachelor's degree program.

SECTION 4. 865 IAC 1-3-2 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

Affected: IC 25-21.5

Sec. 2. (a) A student enrolled in an approved land surveying curriculum An applicant may submit the application to sit for the board seeking certification as a surveyor intern after taking and passing the land-surveyor-in-training fundamentals of surveying examination. to the designee of the board, if any, located on the student's campus.

(b) All other applicants shall submit their applications to the board's office.

SECTION 5. 865 IAC 1-3-3 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

Affected: IC 4-21.5-3-1; IC 25-21.5

Sec. 3. (a) This section applies to admission to Parts IIA or IIB, or both, of the examination.

(1) the applicable application fee;

(2) certified copy of educational transcripts; and

(3) required references;

shall be filed with the board on or before January 1 for the April examination or July 1 for the October examination unless the principles and practice exam (Part IIA) is converted to computer based testing as described in 865 IAC 1-4-3, in which case the deadline shall be no later ninety (90) days prior to the beginning of the testing window.

(b) (c) As used in this section, the date an application is filed shall be calculated in the manner provided for in IC 4-21.5-3-1(f).

SECTION 6. 865 IAC 1-4-2 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

Affected: IC 25-21.5-5

Sec. 2. The board will admit an applicant to an examination only if the applicant otherwise qualifies for the registration or certification for which application has been made as a professional surveyor, including meeting the applicable education and experience requirements established in IC 25-21.5-5 and 865 IAC 1-2.

SECTION 7. 865 IAC 1-4-3 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

Affected: IC 25-21.5-6-1

Sec. 3. (a) The examination for registration as a land professional surveyor shall consist of two (2) parts as described in IC 25-21.5-6-1. Part I shall be known as the basic disciplines fundamentals of land surveying examination. Part II shall be:

(b) The examination for certification as a land-surveyor-in-training surveyor intern shall be the basic disciplines fundamentals of surveying examination described in subsection (a).

(c) The fundamentals of surveying examination will be a computer based test that will be given during testing windows as scheduled by NCEES or a testing administrator determined by the board. An eligible applicant may schedule for the examination at a testing center any time during a testing window as space is available. An applicant may not take the examination more than once in a testing window, or even if readmitted under section 7(b) of this rule, more than three (3) times in a twelve (12) month period.

(c) Regularly scheduled examinations (d) Until it becomes available as a computer based test, the principles and practice of surveying examination will be held given twice each year, normally in April and October. each year.

(e) Once it becomes available as a computer based test, the principles and practice of surveying examination will be given in the same manner provided for the fundamentals of surveying examination in subsection (c).

SECTION 8. 865 IAC 1-4-4 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

Affected: IC 25-21.5-6-1

Sec. 4. (a) If admission to an examination is granted, those parts of the examination which that the applicant will be required to take and pass will be stated on a notice sent to the applicant.

(b) An applicant who has received the notice described in subsection (a) and that notice provides for taking the fundamentals of surveying examination must take either the fundamentals of surveying examination to which admission was granted or one (1) of the next two (2) examinations thereafter. If the applicant fails to sit for at least one (1) of the three (3) examinations, the application for the registration or certification being sought shall be deemed terminated and, if the applicant thereafter desires to seek the registration or certification for which application had been made, a new application must be filed with, and approved by, the board. no later than the end of the second full testing window after issuance of the notice.

(c) An applicant who has received the notice described in subsection (a) and that notice does not provide for taking the fundamentals of surveying examination must take the examination to which admission was granted or one (1) of the two (2) examinations immediately thereafter. Unless the principles and practice exam (Part IIA) is converted to computer based testing as described in section 3 of this rule, in which case the examination must be taken by the end of the testing window in effect one (1) year after issuance of the notice.

(d) If the applicant fails to sit for an examination by the deadline provided in subsection (b) or (c), the application for the registration being sought shall be deemed terminated and, if the applicant thereafter desires to seek the registration or certification for which application had been made, a new application must be filed with, and approved by, the board.

SECTION 9. 865 IAC 1-4-6 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

Affected: IC 25-21.5

Sec. 6. (a) This section and section 7 of this rule apply to the examination for registration as a land professional surveyor.

(b) An applicant who does not pass the entire examination in the first attempt shall be entitled to take it two (2) additional times provided that both of the applicant's additional examinations are taken no later than the fourth regularly scheduled examination eighth testing window after the failure of the first examination.

(c) An applicant who passes one (1) or two (2) parts of the land surveyor examination:

(d) Upon exhaustion of all of the examination attempts allowed under subsection (b), the application shall be deemed terminated.

SECTION 10. 865 IAC 1-4-7 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

Affected: IC 25-21.5-5-2

Sec. 7. (a) An individual whose application has been deemed terminated under section 6(d) of this rule may reapply for admission to the examination.

(b) If the applicant took, but did not pass, any part of the examination within the three (3) attempts allowed under section 6 of this rule, in order for readmission to be granted, the applicant must have completed the following:

(c) An applicant who is readmitted to an examination under this section shall be treated as if the applicant had not previously taken the examination for all purposes under sections 4 and 6 of this rule. However, if the applicant has previously passed Part I of the land surveyor examination, the applicant shall not be required to retake Part I.

SECTION 11. 865 IAC 1-4-8 IS REPEALED.

SECTION 12. SECTIONS 1 through 11 of this document take effect January 1, 2014.

Notice of Public Hearing

DIN: 20131002-IR-865130334PRA

Composed: Nov 19,2024 7:17:13AM EST

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