West Virginia Code 30-13A-18 – Requirements for when a person fails an examination
(a) Any person failing any of the examinations for surveying is not permitted to work as a licensed surveyor under the provisions of this article until the person has passed all the examinations.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 30-13A-18
- Direct supervision: means the responsible licensee is in direct control of all field and office surveying operations. See West Virginia Code 30-13A-3
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- land surveying: means providing, or offering to provide, professional services using such sciences as mathematics, geodesy, and photogrammetry, and involving both:
(1) The making of geometric measurements and gathering related information pertaining to the physical or legal features of the earth, improvements on the earth, the space above, on or below the earth. See West Virginia Code 30-13A-3
- Licensee: means a person holding a surveying license issued under the provisions of this article. See West Virginia Code 30-13A-3
- Practice of surveying: means providing professional surveying services, including consulting, investigating, expert testimony, evaluating, planning, mapping and surveying. See West Virginia Code 30-13A-3
- Surveyor intern: means a person who has passed an examination covering the fundamentals of land surveying. See West Virginia Code 30-13A-3
(b) A person failing the fundamentals of land surveying examination may still gain experience as required in section eight of this article until he or she passes the examination.
(c) A person who has passed the fundamentals of land surveying examination, but failed the principles and practice examination or West Virginia examination may only work as a surveyor intern under the direct supervision of a licensee or a person authorized in another jurisdiction to engage in the practice of surveying until he or she passes all of the examinations.