A proposed amendment relating to license requirements for land surveyors seeks to uphold the Land Surveyor's Education Bill (which previously amended section 7206-a of the Education Law, by updating certain education experience requirements for licensure as a land surveyor to fall in-line with the national standards).
The proposed amendment seeks to further update the education and experience requirements for a land surveyor license by the following methods:
- Establishing program registration requirements for land surveyor education programs (which include registration and curriculum requirements);
- Amending the land surveyor education requirements for licensure to conform with national standards; and
- Amending admission requirements for the fundamentals of surveying, principles, and practice of surveying, and the NYS jurisdicional examinations.
Additionally, the proposed amendment requires land surveyor education programs to be:
- Approved course of study in land surveying or substantially equivalent program, which leads to a bachelor's degree or higher; or
- Approved course of study in land surveying which leads to an associate's degree; or
- Approved course of study which leads to an associate's degree or higher in engineering, math, or related science or their substantial equivalent and includes a minimum of 15 semester hours in four specified subject areas--survey I, survey II, boundary/survey law 1, and boundary/survey law 2; and, if the 15 hours cannot be obtained in any of these 3 subjects, then the 15 semester hours may be gained from other courses including cadastral, geodesy, and remote sensing.
This new rule makes NYS land surveyor's less qualified; meaning, it's now going to be easier to become one.
Do you agree that land surveyor licensure requirements in NYS should conform with the national standard?
Are the proposed education programs to obtain a land surveyor license feasible or too burdensome?
To make your voice heard, comments should be sent to Kirti Goswami, NYS Education Department, Office of Counsel at legal@nysed.gov by July 12, 2021. Comments are reviewed by Government and that is the time that laws are changed to meet the public's perspective - it's a speak now or forever hold your peace moment.
