Surveyors and Mappers Licensing
License Codes | Applications and Fees | CE Provider/Course Applications
Surveying and Mapping
The “practice of surveying and mapping" means, among other things, any professional service or work, the adequate performance of which involves the application of special knowledge of the principles of mathematics, the related physical and applied sciences, and the relevant requirements of law for adequate evidence of the act of measuring, locating, establishing, or reestablishing lines, angles, elevations, natural and man-made features in the air, on the surface and immediate subsurface of the earth, within underground workings, and on the beds or surface of bodies of water, for the purpose of determining, establishing, describing, displaying, or interpreting the facts of size, shape, topography, tidal datum planes, legal or geodetic location or relocation, and orientation of improved or unimproved real property and appurtenances thereto, including acreage and condominiums.
The practice of surveying and mapping also includes, but is not limited to, photogrammetric control; the monumentation and remonumentation of property boundaries and subdivisions; the measurement of and preparation of plans showing existing improvements after construction; the layout of proposed improvements; the preparation of descriptions for use in legal instruments of conveyance of real property and property rights; the preparation of subdivision planning maps and record plats, as provided for in chapter 177; the determination of, but not the design of, grades and elevations of roads and land in connection with subdivisions or divisions of land; and the creation and perpetuation of alignments related to maps, record plats, field note records, reports, property descriptions, and plans and drawings that represent them.
License Categories
The following are the license categories: Professional Surveyor and Mapper and Business Entity. There is no separate license for photogrammetry.
The following are the types of licenses that are issued:
LS –A "professional surveyor and mapper" means a person who is registered to engage in the practice of surveying and mapping. A person who determines and displays the facts of size, shape, topography, tidal datum planes, legal or geodetic location or relation and orientation of improved or unimproved real property through direct measurement or from certifiable measurement through accepted photogrammetric procedures.
LB –A "surveying and mapping business" means a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation or other form of business entity engaged in the practice or performance of surveying and mapping.
Please review the type of application that is needed. A breakdown of licensure fees and requirements is provided with the application packets.
As of the April 2010 exam, testing fees are paid directly to National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) after Florida Board approval.
Renewal Fees
- The fee to renew an individual license (LS) in active status remaining in active status is $255.00 ($250.00 renewal fee and $5.00 unlicensed activity fee).
- The fee to renew an individual license (LS) in inactive status remaining in inactive status is $55.00 ($50.00 renewal fee, $5.00 unlicensed activity fee).
- The fee to renew an individual license (LS) that is delinquent, is either $250.00 for active or $50 for inactive, plus, $5.00 unlicensed activity fee and a $150.00 delinquent fee.
- The fee to renew an active business license (LB) is $355.00 ($350.00 renewal fee and $5.00 unlicensed activity fee).
- The fee to renew a delinquent business license (LB) is $505.00 ($350.00 renewal fee, $5.00 unlicensed activity fee and a $150.00 delinquent fee).
- The fee to place an active license in inactive status is $105.00 ($50.00 status change fee, $50.00 renewal fee and $5.00 unlicensed activity fee).
- The fee to change an inactive status to an active license is $50.00 plus the $255.00 active renewal fee and possibly additional fees depending on when the reactivation occurs.
- The late renewal penalty is $150.00.
Surveyor and Mapper - Initial licensure by Examination or Endorsement
Initial - $255 Fee
Endorsement - $255 Fee
Testing Fees to be paid to NCEES after Board approval only
$170 - Fundamentals of Surveying (FS)
$265 - Principles and Practice of Surveying (PS)
$100 - Florida Jurisdictional Multiple Choice, unless taken in conjunction with PS
Surveyor and Mapper - Reexamination
Testing Fees to be paid to NCEES after Board approval only
$170 - Fundamentals of Surveying (FS)
$265 - Principles and Practice of Surveying (PS)
$100 - Florida Jurisdictional Multiple Choice, unless taken in conjunction with PS
Surveyor and Mapper - Reinstatement of Null and Void Certification
$125 Fee. Additionally, pay $255 for each biennium that the applicant failed to renew.
Surveyor and Mapper - Retired Status
No Fee Required
Surveyor and Mapper Business License - Certificate of Authorization
Regular License - $255 Fee
Temporary License - $180 Fee
Surveyor in Training - Request Examination
Testing Fees to be paid to NCEES
$170 - Fundamentals of Surveying (FS)
Please review the type of application that is needed. A breakdown of licensure fees and requirements is provided with the application packets.
Continuing Education Provider Application
$450 Fee
Continuing Education Course Approval or Renewal Application
No Fee Required
