Section 6.05. Examination.

 

(1)   Land surveyor examination required. Applicants for licensure as a professional land surveyor shall take and pass an examination. The examination parts are the national fundamentals of surveying examination, the national principles and practice of surveying examination and the state jurisdictional examination, which is relative to Wisconsin specific practice. Each of the 3 required examinations is scored separately.

(2)   Scope of written examination.

(a) The fundamentals of land surveying examination requires an understanding of mathematics, physics, surveying methods for measuring horizontal, vertical and angular values, topographic and photogrammetric mapping, notekeeping, property surveys, computations, descriptions and plats.

(b) The national principles and practice examination and the state jurisdictional examination require an ability to apply principles and judgment to problems involving the U.S. system of public land surveys, Wisconsin plane coordinate surveys, the relocation of lost and obliterated corners, the legal essentials of resurveys, disputed boundaries, defective deed descriptions, riparian rights, adverse possession, the Wisconsin statutes relating to land surveying including the preparation and filing of plats, the writing and interpreting of land descriptions, the technical essentials of professional land surveying and subdivision of lands including practical problems requiring a knowledge of the basic theory and fundamental concepts of field astronomy, geometry of curves, topography and photogrammetry.

(3)   Time period for examination. Applicants for licensure as a land surveyor must take and pass the fundamentals of surveying examination, the national principles and practice surveying examination , and the state jurisdictional examination within 4 years of applying for licensure.

(6)   Examination and refund fees. The fee for land surveyor examinations and requirements for refund of fees are specified in s. 440.05 , Stats., and ch. SPS 4 .

(7)   Examination grading. The passing scores set by the board represent the minimum competency required to protect public health and safety. Experience rating may not be weighed as part of the examination grade.

(8)   Reexamination procedure. An applicant for a land surveyor examination who fails an examination or any part of an examination may retake any part of the examination failed at a regularly-scheduled administration of the examination. If an applicant fails to pass on reexamination of the parts failed, or the current examination parts equivalent to the parts failed, within 4 years from the date of receipt of the results of the first failure of the examination or any part of the examination, the applicant is required to take and pass the entire examination. If the applicant retakes the entire examination, the applicant shall pay the original examination fee under s. 440.05 (1) , Stats. The board shall determine which parts of a current examination are equivalent to the examination parts failed by an applicant.

(10)   Cheating. Any applicant for licensure who receives aid or cheats in any other manner in connection with the examination shall be barred from completing the examination or shall not be given a passing grade, or both.

History: Cr. Register, February, 1987, No. 374 , eff. 3-1-87; am. (1) and (6), Register, January, 1993, No. 445 , eff. 2-1-93; am. (8), Register, June, 1994, No. 462 , eff. 7-1-94; am. (9) (b), Register, March, 1996, No. 483 , eff. 4-1-96; am. (9) (a), Register, October, 1996, No. 490 , eff. 11-1-96; rn. (7) (a) to be (7) and am., r. (7) (b), cr. (10), Register, January, 1999, No. 517 , eff. 2-1-99; am. (1), (3) (a) and (b), cr. (3) (c) and (d), Register, November, 2000, No. 539 , eff. 12-1-00; CR 04-118 : am. (1) and (2) (b) Register December 2005 No. 600 , eff. 1-1-06; correction in (6) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 7. , Stats., Register November 2011 No. 671 ; CR 15-036 : am. (1) (intro.), (2) (b), (10) Register January 2016 No. 721 , eff. 2-1-16; CR 15-040 : r. and recr. (3), r. (4), (5), (9) Register May 2016 No. 725 , eff. 6-1-16.

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A list of all current examination fees may be obtained at no charge from the Office of Examinations, Department of Safety and Professional Services, 1400 East Washington Avenue, P.O. Box 8935, Madison, WI 53708. Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1