Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers
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NCEES seeks licensed professional surveyor volunteers
NCEES is seeking volunteers to participate in a standard-setting study for the Principles and Practice of Surveying (PS) exam. To qualify, volunteers must have taken and passed the NCEES PS exam and must be a licensed professional surveyor. Learn more...
PS to become closed-book exam in April 2013!!!
The NCEES Principles and Practice of Surveying (PS) will become a closed-book exam in April 2013. At this time, examinees will use NCEES-supplied references during the exam and will no longer be allowed to bring other reference material into the exam room. Learn more...
A licensed surveyor and mapper makes exact measurements and determines property boundaries. They provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.
Number of Licensed Professionals in Florida:
approximately 2,600
Number of Licensed Businesses in Florida:
approximately 1,000
Requirements to be licensed:
All applicants must be approved by the Board prior to taking any examination for Florida licensure. All applicants (those by first time examination and those by endorsement) will be required to take at a minimum the Florida Jurisdictional Multiple Choice examination.
First time applicants for licensure by examination are entitled to take the licensure examination, after approval by the Board, to practice in the State of Florida as a professional surveyor and mapper if you are of a good moral character and have satisfied one of the following requirements:
Option 1
- You have received a degree in surveying and mapping of four years or more in a surveying and mapping degree program from a college or university recognized by the board and have experience of four or more years as a subordinate to a professional surveyor and mapper in the active practice of surveying and mapping. Your experience must indicate that you were in responsible charge of the accuracy and correctness of the surveying and mapping work performed.
- The completed surveying and mapping degree must have included not fewer than 32 semester hours of study, or its academic equivalent, in the science of surveying and mapping or in board-approved surveying-and-mapping-related courses. Work experience acquired as a part of the education requirement does not count as experience in responsible charge.
Option 2
- You must be a graduate of a four-year course of study, other than in surveying and mapping, at an accredited college or university approved by the board and have experience of six or more years as a subordinate to a registered surveyor and mapper in the active practice of surveying and mapping. You must demonstrate that you were in responsible charge of the accuracy and correctness of the surveying and mapping work performed for at least five of the six years.
- The course of study must have included not fewer than 32 semester hours of study or its academic equivalent. You must have completed a minimum of 25 semester hours in surveying and mapping subjects or in any combination of courses in civil engineering, surveying, mapping, mathematics, photogrammetry, forestry, or land law and the physical sciences. Any of the required 25 semester hours that were not completed as part of the four-year course of study may be approved at the discretion of the board. Work experience acquired as a part of the education requirement does not count as experience in responsible charge.
Applicants for licensure by endorsement are entitled to take the Florida Jurisdictional Multiple Choice Examination, after approval by the Board, to practice in the State of Florida as a professional surveyor and mapper if you have satisfied one of the following requirements:
Option 1
- You hold a valid license to practice surveying and mapping issued prior to July 1, 1999, by another state or territory of the United States; have passed a national, regional, state, or territorial licensing examination that is substantially equivalent to the examination required by section 472.013, Florida Statutes; and, you have a specific experience record of at least 8 years as a subordinate to a registered surveyor and mapper in the active practice of surveying and mapping, 6 years of which must be of a nature indicating that you were in responsible charge of the accuracy and correctness of the surveying and mapping work performed.
Option 2
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You hold a valid license to practice surveying and mapping issued by another state or territory of the United States if the criteria for issuance of the license was substantially the same as the licensure criteria that existed in Florida at the time the license was issued.
- Chapter 120, Florida Statutes
- Chapter 177, Florida Statutes
- Chapter 472, Florida Statutes
- Chapter 5J-17, Florida Administrative Code - Pursuant to Chapter 2009-66, Laws of Florida, effective October 1, 2009, the regulation of professional surveyors and mappers by the Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers was transferred from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS). As a result the rules of the Board have been transferred from under the umbrella of DBPR to the umbrella of FDACS. The transfer required a renumbering of the rules. At this point there have been no substantive changes; however rulemaking has begun for many rules. Please use these new rule numbers when practicing the profession of surveying and mapping.
To file a complaint against a professional surveyor and mapper, please complete the following complaint form:
