Here is my suggestion for revising Section 327.312 of the Missouri Revised Statutes. Existing text to be removed is lined through. Text to be added is in bold text with yellow highlight.
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Land surveyor-in-training applicant for examination and enrollment, qualifications--certificate issued when.
327.312. 1. Any person
may apply to the board
for examination and enrollment as a land surveyor-in-training
who is over the age of twenty-one, who is of good moral character, who is a high
school graduate, or who holds a Missouri certificate of high school
equivalence (GED or HiSET), and either
who has successfully completed the following college
level course work:
(1) Has graduated
and received a baccalaureate degree in an approved
curriculum as defined by board
regulation which shall include at
At least twelve fourteen semester hours of approved surveying
course work as defined by
board regulation of which at least two semester hours shall be in the legal aspects of
boundary surveying; or and
(2) Has passed
at least
sixty hours of college credit
which shall include credit for
at least twenty semester hours of
approved surveying course work as
defined by board regulation of which at least
two semester hours shall be
in legal
aspects of boundary surveying
and present evidence satisfactory to the board that
in
addition thereto such person has at least one year of combined professional
office and field experience in land surveying projects under the immediate
personal supervision of a
professional land surveyor; or At least 8
semester hours of mathematics course work, to include, at a minimum, college
algebra, trigonometry and statistics; and
(3) Has passed at least twelve
semester hours of approved
surveying course work as defined by board regulation of which at least two semester
hours shall be in legal
aspects of land surveying
and in addition thereto has at least two years of combined professional
office and field experience in land surveying projects under the immediate
personal supervision of a
professional land surveyor. Pursuant to this provision, not
more than one year of satisfactory
postsecondary education work shall count as
equivalent years of
satisfactory land surveying work as
aforementioned At least 3 semester hours of technical
writing course work; and
(4) At least 9 semester hours of
science and technical arts course work relevant to land surveying.
2. The board
shall issue a certificate of completion
to each
applicant who satisfies the
requirements of the aforementioned land surveyor-in-training
program and passes such examination or examinations as shall
be required
by the
board.
