| (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.
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