Professional Land Surveyor

Land surveyors; qualifications for licensure.

Minimum qualifications of applicants seeking licensure as land surveyors are the following:

(a) Proof of at least eight years of land surveying experience or education or a combination thereof satisfactory to the board, as defined by rules and regulations of the board;

(b) the satisfactory passage of an examination utilized by the board.

Land surveying; exemptions from requirements for licensure or certification.

The provisions of this act requiring licensure or the issuance of a certificate of authorization under K.S.A. 74-7036 and amendments thereto to engage in the practice of land surveying shall not be construed to prevent or to affect:

(a) Surveying, other than land surveying where such surveying is incidental to the design or construction of engineering or architectural works.

(b)The practices of land surveying by an individual of such individual's own real property or that of such individual's employer for purposes other than the conveyance of an interest in such real property.

(c)The surveying on farms for agricultural purposes other than the conveyance of an interest in such farm property.

(d) The performance of services by a licensed landscape architect or by a corporation issued a certificate of authorization to provide services in landscape architecture under K.S.A.74-7036 and amendments thereto in connection with landscape and site planning for the sites, approaches or environment for buildings, structures or facilities.

Professional Engineer

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Professional engineers; qualifications for licensure.

Qualifications of applicants seeking licensure as professional engineers are the following:

(a)Graduation from a college or university program that is adequate in its preparation of students for the practice of engineering; and

(b)The satisfactory passage of such written examination in the fundamentals of engineering as utilized by the board; and

(c)proof of four years of engineering experience of a character satisfactory to the board, as defined by rules and regulations of the board; and

(d) the satisfactory passage of such examination in professional practice as utilized by the board.

Engineering; exemptions from requirements for licensure or certification.

The provisions of this act requiring licensure or the issuance of a certificate of authorization under K.S.A. 74-7036 and amendments thereto to engage in the practice of engineering shall not be construed to prevent or to affect:

(a)Except as provided by subsection (b), the design or erection of any structure or work by a person who owns the structure or work, upon such person's own premises for such person's own use if the structure or work is not to be used for human habitation, is not to serve as a place of employment, and is not to be open to the public for any purpose whatsoever.

(b) Persons designing or erecting or preparing plans, drawings or specification for one or two family dwellings or for agricultural buildings, as defined by K.S.A. 74-7031 and amendments thereto.

(c) Persons engaged in planning, drafting and designing of products manufactured for resale to the public.

(d) The performance of services by a licensed landscape architect in connection with landscape and site planning for the sites, approaches or environment for buildings, structures or facilities.

Betty Rose
Executive Director
900 Jackson, Suite 507
Topeka, Kansas 66612-1257
913-296-3053

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