Fla. Stat. § 472.001
Purpose
The Legislature deems it necessary to regulate surveyors and mappers as provided in ss. 472.001-472.037.
Florida Statutes Chapter 472 — LAND SURVEYING AND MAPPING
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Fla. Stat. § 472.003
Persons not affected by ss. 472.001-472.037
Sections 472.001-472.037 do not apply to:(1) Any surveyor and mapper working as a salaried employee of the United States Government when engaged in work solely for the United States Government.(2) A registered professional engineer who takes or contracts for professional surveying and mapping services incidental to her…
Fla. Stat. § 472.005
Definitions
As used in ss. 472.001-472.037:(1) “Board” means the Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers.(2) “Department” means the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.(3) “Surveyor and mapper” includes the term “professional surveyor and mapper” and means a person who is registered to engage in the practice of sur…
Fla. Stat. § 472.006
Department; powers and duties
The department shall:(1) Adopt rules establishing a procedure for the biennial renewal of licenses. However, the department may issue up to a 4-year license to selected licensees notwithstanding any other law to the contrary. Fees for such renewal may not exceed the fee caps for individual professions on an annualized…
Fla. Stat. § 472.007
Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers
There is created in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services the Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers.(1) The board shall consist of nine members, seven of whom shall be registered surveyors and mappers primarily engaged in the practice of surveying and mapping and two of whom shall be laypersons who…
Fla. Stat. § 472.0075
Contacting board through department
The board may be contacted through the headquarters of the department in the City of Tallahassee.
Fla. Stat. § 472.008
Rules of the board
(1) The board has authority to adopt rules to implement this chapter conferring duties upon it. This specific grant of rulemaking authority to the board shall be exercised only through proceedings pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 and with the prior approval of the department.(2) The board shall adopt rules authori…
Fla. Stat. § 472.009
Board headquarters
The headquarters of the board shall be in Tallahassee.
Fla. Stat. § 472.0101
Foreign-trained professionals; special examination and license provisions
(1) When not otherwise provided by law, the department shall by rule provide procedures under which exiled professionals may be examined under this chapter. A person is eligible for the examination if the exiled professional:(a) Immigrated to the United States after leaving the person’s home country because of politica…
Fla. Stat. § 472.011
Fees
(1) The board, by rule, may establish fees to be paid for applications, examination, reexamination, licensing and renewal, inactive status application and reactivation of inactive licenses, recordmaking and recordkeeping, and applications for providers of continuing education. The board may also establish by rule a del…
Fla. Stat. § 472.013
Examinations, prerequisites
(1) A person desiring to be licensed as a surveyor and mapper shall apply to the department for licensure.(2) An applicant shall be entitled to take the licensure examination to practice in this state as a surveyor and mapper if the applicant is of good moral character and has satisfied one of the following requirement…
Fla. Stat. § 472.0131
Examinations; development; administration
(1) The department shall provide, contract, or approve services for the development, preparation, administration, scoring, score reporting, and evaluation of all examinations. The department shall consult with the board in providing such services.(a) The department shall ensure that examinations adequately and reliably…
Fla. Stat. § 472.0132
Penalty for theft or reproduction of an examination
In addition to, or in lieu of, any other discipline imposed pursuant to s. 472.033, a person who wrongfully takes an examination in whole or in part or reproduces or copies an examination administered by the department, whether such examination is reproduced or copied in part or in whole and by any means, commits a fel…
Fla. Stat. § 472.0135
Education; substituting demonstration of competency for clock-hour requirements; accreditation; consultation
(1) If the board requires a student to complete a specific number of clock hours of classroom instruction for initial licensure purposes, the board shall establish the minimal competencies that such student must demonstrate in order to be licensed. The demonstration of such competencies may be substituted for specific…
Fla. Stat. § 472.015
Licensure
(1) Notwithstanding any other law, the department is the sole authority for determining the contents of any documents to be submitted for initial licensure and licensure renewal. The documents may contain information including, as appropriate: demographics, social security number, education, work history, personal back…
Fla. Stat. § 472.016
Members of Armed Forces in good standing with the board
(1) Any member of the United States Armed Forces who is now or in the future on active duty and who, at the time of becoming such a member of the United States Armed Forces, was in good standing with the board and entitled to practice or engage in surveying and mapping in the state shall be kept in good standing by the…
Fla. Stat. § 472.0165
Qualification of immigrants for examination to practice a licensed profession or occupation
(1) It is the declared purpose of this section to encourage the use of foreign-speaking residents of this state duly qualified to become licensed surveyors and mappers so that all Florida citizens may receive better services.(2) Any person who has successfully completed, or is currently enrolled in, an approved course…
Fla. Stat. § 472.017
Renewal of license
The department shall renew a license upon receipt of the renewal application and fee, upon proof of compliance with the continuing education requirement of s. 472.018, and, if a demonstration of competency is required by law or rule, upon certification by the board that the licensee has satisfactorily demonstrated his…
Fla. Stat. § 472.018
Continuing education
The department may not renew a license until the licensee submits proof satisfactory to the board that during the 2 years before her or his application for renewal the licensee has completed at least 24 hours of continuing education. The board may provide by rule for continuing education hours carryover for each renewa…
Fla. Stat. § 472.019
Reactivation; continuing education
(1) The continuing education requirements for reactivating a license may not exceed 12 classroom hours for each year the license was inactive.(2) The board shall promulgate rules relating to licenses which have become inactive and for the renewal of inactive licenses. The board shall prescribe by rule a fee not to exce…
Fla. Stat. § 472.0201
Public inspection of information required from applicants; exceptions; examination hearing
(1) All information required by the department of any applicant shall be a public record and shall be open to public inspection pursuant to s. 119.07, except financial information, medical information, school transcripts, examination questions, answers, papers, grades, and grading keys, which are confidential and exemp…
Fla. Stat. § 472.02011
Disclosure of confidential information
(1) An officer, employee, or person under contract with the department or the board, or any subject of an investigation may not convey knowledge or information to any person who is not lawfully entitled to such knowledge or information about any public meeting or public record, which at the time such knowledge or infor…
Fla. Stat. § 472.0202
Inactive and delinquent status
(1) A licensee may practice a profession only if the licensee has an active status license. A licensee who practices a profession without an active status license is in violation of this section and s. 472.0351, and the board may impose discipline on the licensee.(2) The board shall permit a licensee to choose, at the…
Fla. Stat. § 472.0203
Renewal and cancellation notices
(1) At least 90 days before the end of a licensure cycle, the department shall:(a) Forward a licensure renewal notification to an active or inactive licensee at the licensee’s last known address of record with the department.(b) Forward a notice of pending cancellation of licensure to a delinquent status licensee at th…
Fla. Stat. § 472.0204
Address of record
(1) Each licensee of the department is solely responsible for notifying the department in writing of the licensee’s current mailing address and place of practice, as defined by rule of the board. A licensee’s failure to notify the department of a change of address constitutes a violation of this section, and the licens…
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