PRINTER'S NO. 2992
No. 2207 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY DALLY, R. MILLER, THOMAS, WATSON, FAIRCHILD,
CREIGHTON, CLARK, CAPPELLI, HERSHEY, MELIO, McILHATTAN,
HORSEY, ROEBUCK, STABACK, YOUNGBLOOD, HENNESSEY, TRELLO,
ROBERTS, BELFANTI, CORRIGAN, STEELMAN, KELLER, WASHINGTON,
PALLONE AND McGILL, DECEMBER 4, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
DECEMBER 4, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 23, 1945 (P.L.913, No.367), entitled, as
2 amended, "An act relating to and regulating the practice of
3 the profession of engineering, including civil engineering,
4 mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mining
5 engineering and chemical engineering, the profession of land
6 surveying and the profession of geology and constituent parts
7 and combinations thereof as herein defined; providing for the
8 licensing and registration of persons practicing said
9 profession, and the certification of engineers-in-training
10 and surveyors-in-training, and the suspension and revocation
11 of said licenses, registrations and certifications for
12 violation of this act; prescribing the powers and duties of
13 the State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land
14 Surveyors and Geologists, the Department of State and the
15 courts; prescribing penalties; and repealing existing laws,"
16 further providing for procedure for licensing as professional
17 land surveyor.
18 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
19 hereby enacts as follows:
20 Section 1. Section 4.3(b)(1) of the act of May 23, 1945
21 (P.L.913, No.367), known as the Engineer, Land Surveyor and
22 Geologist Registration Law, added December 19, 1990 (P.L.782,
23 No.192), is amended and the subsection is amended by adding a
1 clause to read:
2 Section 4.3. Procedure for Licensing as Professional Land
3 Surveyor.--* * *
4 (b) (1) An applicant for the surveyor-in-training
5 certificate shall show satisfactory evidence of:
6 (i) graduation from an approved civil engineering curriculum
7 of at least four years, including no less than ten credit hours
8 instruction in surveying;
9 (ii) six or more years of progressive experience in
10 surveying and knowledge, skill and education deemed equivalent,
11 in accordance with board regulation, to graduation from an
12 approved curriculum in land surveying or civil engineering; or
13 (iii) an associate's degree in an approved surveying
14 technology curriculum.
15 * * *
16 (4) An applicant who is a surveying student who has
17 completed two or more years of an approved curriculum may,
18 subject to board approval, sit for the examination; but such
19 student shall not be eligible for certification until that
20 student shows proof of graduation.
21 * * *
22 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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