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Notice: 18802788

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES

Division:

Division of Consumer Services

Chapter:

PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS AND MAPPERS

Overview

RULE:

5J-17.002	Attendance at Board Meetings
5J-17.003	Applications for Licensure: Approved Schools and Colleges
5J-17.010	Grounds for Discipline
5J-17.011	Disciplinary Guidelines
5J-17.012	Payment of Fine
5J-17.015	Statement Regarding Lack of Insurance
5J-17.016	Time for Compliance With Final Order; Probation
5J-17.020	Applications for Licensure: Experience
5J-17.021	Applications for Licensure: Education
5J-17.022	Applications for Surveyor and Mapper Intern/Surveyor in Training
5J-17.025	Domestic Equivalency Education Program Criteria for Applicants Who Graduated from Non-ABET Accredited Surveying and Mapping Degree Programs (Repealed)
5J-17.026	Foreign Degree Evaluation
5J-17.027	Documentation of Substantially Equivalent Licensing Examination (Repealed)
5J-17.028	Application for Retired Status
5J-17.029	Application Deadlines
5J-17.031	Written Examination Designated; General Requirements
5J-17.032	Content of Examination
5J-17.034	Grading
5J-17.037	Re-examination
5J-17.039	Licensure, Inactive Status, Delinquent Status, Reactivation
5J-17.040	Continuing Education Requirements for Reactivation of Inactive License
5J-17.041	Continuing Education Credit for Biennial Renewal
5J-17.042	Proof of Continuing Education Credit Earned
5J-17.043	Board Approval of Continuing Education Providers
5J-17.044	Obligations of Continuing Education Providers
5J-17.050	Definitions
5J-17.051	Standards of Practice - General Survey, MAP, and Report Content Requirements
5J-17.052	Standards of Practice - Boundary Survey Requirements
5J-17.053	Standards of Practice - Professional Matters in Surveying and Mapping
5J-17.061	Seal and Signature (Repealed)
5J-17.062	Procedures for Signing and Sealing Electronically Transmitted Surveys or Other Documents
5J-17.063	Certificates of Authorization
5J-17.070	Fees
5J-17.080	Citations
5J-17.081	Notices of Noncompliance
5J-17.083	Probation
5J-17.084	Surrender of Seal and Cancellation of Digital Signature
5J-17.085	Survey Review
5J-17.086	Appointment to the Board
5J-17.200	Definitions
5J-17.400	Special Assessment Fee (Repealed)

PURPOSE:

These new rules, changes and deletions are intended to amend, modernize and streamline the rules and forms that govern the profession of surveying and mapping in the state of Florida.  These proposed changes are necessary as the fundamental criteria for which a surveyor’s work is judged in this state has evolved from Minimum Technical Standards (MTS) to Standards of Practice (SOP) in the last few years.  In addition, these changes also seek to remove obsolete language that no longer applies to the profession and remove outdated verbiage that applies to technology no longer deployed in the profession as advances have been made in that area.   Also the proposed definitional changes in these rules look to more accurately reflect currently accepted practices and procedures in the profession.  Finally, these proposed changes seek to provide a waiver of fees for the initial registration of our honorably discharged veterans and spouses.

SUMMARY:

If adopted, the proposed language will include the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) as one of the organizations qualified to evaluate the substantial equivalency of ABET standards in Rule 5J-17.003, F.A.C.; incorporate new or amend forms in Rules 5J-17.010, 5J-17.022, 5J-17.028, 5J-17.037, 5J-17.043, 5J-17.063, 5J-17.080 and 5J-17.086, F.A.C.; eliminate the discipline associated with the corresponding sections in Chapter 472, F.S. in Rule 5J-17.011; require a notification regarding insurance coverage in Rule 5J-17.015; extend time to pay Final Orders to ninety (90) days to make it consistent with Rule 5J-17.016, F.A.C.; establish criteria for evaluating work experience requirements in Rule 5J-17.020, F.A.C.; provide criteria for applicants that graduate from non-ABET accredited surveying and mapping programs in Rule 5J-17.021, F.A.C.; establish the requirement for an applicant to become a surveyor and mapper intern/surveyor in training in Rule 5J-17.022, F.A.C.; include photogrammetry to the list of surveying and mapping practice specialties in Rule 5J-17.025, F.A.C.; update the contact information of the foreign degree evaluation in Rule 5J-17.026, F.A.C.; more accurately depict the language of the rule to reflect a designation of a Surveyor in Training, rather than a licensure as one in Rule 5J-17.029, F.A.C.; delete “multiple choice” from the type of questions on the Florida Jurisdictional Examination  and update examination procedures in Rules 5J-17.031, 5J-17.032 and 5J-17.034, F.A.C.; expand the reach and the hours allowed for various types of continuing education in Rule 5J-17.041, F.A.C.; incorporate form to apply for continuing education provider status and clarifies that the nonrefundable application fee is $200 with a $250 fee for continuing education provider status in Rule 5J-17.043, F.A.C.; eliminate those definitions which had become antiquated or obsolete in the profession of surveying and mapping, and added others that reflect the current terminology and technology in Rule 5J-17.050, F.A.C.; provide clarity to what is required in the profession in regard to what determines vertical accuracy, horizontal accuracy and assumed datum, while eliminating language that is outdated or ambiguous within the profession in Rule 5J-17.051, F.A.C.; redefine, and modernize the requirements specifically related to boundary surveys in Rule 5J-17.052, F.A.C.; expand the coverage of conflict of interest exposure in the profession from county employee to all government employees in Rule 5J-17.053, F.A.C.; eliminate the need for a raised seal as the profession recognizes changes in the distribution of its work product in Rule 5J-17.062, F.A.C.; clarify fees to comply with statute regarding examination fees, continuing education provider status and amend fee language and provides a fee waiver for military veterans in Rule 5J-17.070, F.A.C.; establish a more efficient procedure for those licensees placed on probation in Rule 5J-17.083, F.A.C.; streamline the survey review process of probationers in Rule 5J-17.085, F.A.C.; and a general cleanup and streamline of the remaining rules.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

472.006, (6), 472.008, 472.011, 472.013, 472.013(2)(a), (4), 472.0131, 472.015, 472.018, 472.019, 472.021, 472.025, 472.027, 472.033, 472.0345, 472.0351, 472.0351(4)(b), 472.036 FS.

LAW:

455.225(3), 472.005, 472.005(13), 472.006, 472.007(2), 472.008, 472.011, 472.103, (2)(a), (4), 472.0131, 472.015, 472.018, 472.019, (2), 472.02, 472.0202, (4), 472.021, 472.023, 472.025, 472.027, 472.033, (3), 472.0345, 472.0351 (1)(f), (g), (h), (2), (2)(c), (4)(b), 472.036, 472.0365 472.065 FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

4/3/2017 Vol. 43/64

COMMENTS:

From 4/3/2017 To 4/24/2017 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

Ref-01344 Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers Application for Licensure as Surveyor in Training, DACS-10055 Rev. 02/12

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