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17-48-206. Continuing education requirements.
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17-48-206. Continuing education requirements.
(a)(1) The State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors shall issue rules establishing the continuing education requirements for professional surveyors and surveyor interns.
(2) The rules shall take into account the accessibility to applicants of the board's continuing education requirements.
(3) The rules may:
(A) Rely upon guidelines and pronouncements of recognized educational and professional associations;
(B) Prescribe the content, duration, and organization of courses;
(C) Provide for the relaxation or suspension of requirements for:
(i) Applicants who certify that they do not intend to engage in the practice of surveying; and
(ii) Instances of individual hardship;
(D) Exempt from licensed continuing education requirements a professional surveyor sixty (60) years of age or older with twenty (20) or more years of experience as a practicing professional surveyor; and
(E)(i) Prescribe the manner and condition under which credit shall be given for participation in a program of continuing education that the board considers necessary and appropriate to maintain competency in the practice of surveying.
(ii) Examples of programs of continuing education that are acceptable include without limitation programs or seminars sponsored by higher educational institutions, government agencies, and professional surveying organizations and related professions.
(b)(1) An application for renewal of a certificate of licensure shall be accompanied by evidence documenting the completion of acceptable continuing education credit during the previous renewal period.
(2) Failure by an applicant to provide this evidence upon request by the board is grounds for disciplinary action unless t
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-48-206
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17-48-206. Continuing education requirements.
(a)(1) The State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors shall issue rules establishing the continuing education requirements for professional surveyors and surveyor interns.
(2) The rules shall take into account the accessibility to applicants of the board's continuing education requirements.
(3) The rules may:
(A) Rely upon guidelines and pronouncements of recognized educational and professional associations;
(B) Prescribe the content, duration, and organization of courses;
(C) Provide for the relaxation or suspension of requirements for:
(i) Applicants who certify that they do not intend to engage in the practice of surveying; and
(ii) Instances of individual hardship;
(D) Exempt from licensed continuing education requirements a professional surveyor sixty (60) years of age or older with twenty (20) or more years of experience as a practicing professional surveyor; and
(E)(i) Prescribe the manner and condition under which credit shall be given for participation in a program of continuing education that the board considers necessary and appropriate to maintain competency in the practice of surveying.
(ii) Examples of programs of continuing education that are acceptable include without limitation programs or seminars sponsored by higher educational institutions, government agencies, and professional surveying organizations and related professions.
(b)(1) An application for renewal of a certificate of licensure shall be accompanied by evidence documenting the completion of acceptable continuing education credit during the previous renewal period.
(2) Failure by an applicant to provide this evidence upon request by the board is grounds for disciplinary action unless the board determines the failure is due to a reasonable cause or the applicant was not engaged in the practice of surveying during the previous renewal period.
(3) The board may renew a certificate of licensure despite an applicant's failure to furnish satisfactory evidence of meeting continuing education requirements and may issue a certificate of licensure to an applicant who has previously maintained inactive status under § 17-48-204(c) if the applicant follows a particular program or schedule of continuing education prescribed by the board.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
17-48-204. Expiration and renewal — Inactive status — Reinstatement.
(a) All certificates shall be renewed annually or biennially at the discretion of the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors.
(b) Certificates of licensure for professional surveyors and surveyor interns shall be renewed by the board to persons who are holders of certificates issued under this chapter who have furnished evidence satisfactory to the board of compliance with the requirements of § 17-48-206(b).
(c)(1)(A) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section, a professional surveyor or surveyor intern licensed under this chapter who is not engaged in the practice of land surveying may request in writing that the board place his or her name on the board's inactive roll, thereby granting him or her inactive status and protecting his or her right to obtain a certificate of licensure under subsection (b) of this section at such later time as he or she may wish to become engaged in the practice of land surveying.
(B) Inactive status shall continue as long as the licensee pays the annual fee under the board's rules.
(2) A professional surveyor whose license is inactive may return to active status by:
(A) Notifying the board in advance of his or her intention to return to active status;
(B) Paying the appropriate fees; and
(C) Meeting all requirements of the board, including demonstration of continuing professional competency.
(d) A professional surveyor or surveyor intern whose certificate of licensure is not renewed may have it reinstated by meeting the requirements of the board, depending on the time of nonrenewal under the rules of the board. The requirements the board may consider are:
(1) Payment of fees and penalties;
(2) Demonstration
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-48-204
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