NY State Education Department Office of the Professions State Board for Engineering & Land Surveying
Thomas W. King, Jar., P. E
89 Washington Avenue
Albany, New York 12234-1000
518 474-3817
518 473-6282 FAX
engine@mail.nysed.gov

Only 8 hours can be taken in online educational activities. All educational activities must be HSW related. NY accepts courses that are registered with the American Institute of Architects (AIA). However, they must also include acceptable subject matter. For a list of acceptable topics, please refer to the 'Applicable Course of Study' section below.

Not all courses and educational activities offered by an approved sponsor are acceptable for continuing education credit in New York State. If you have questions about whether or not a course is acceptable, please contact your state board before enrolling in the course or educational activity.

Note: For your first three-year registration period after the new law goes into effect, you will be required to complete continuing education at a rate of 1 hour per month beginning January 1, 2004 to the date your registration is due to be renewed. For example, if your new registration period begins on January 5, 2005, you will need to have completed 12 contact hours of continuing education by January 5, 2005.

Renewal Dates
Renewal occurs on a triennial basis determined by the registrant's date of birth.

Statutes
Section 7211 of Article 145 of the Education Law

Special Designations or Stipulations
A minimum of (16) sixteen hours of such continuing education shall consist of courses in land surveying and related subjects, provided that no more than (8) eight of said (24) twenty-four hours shall consist of self-study courses.

Audit Potential
random

Allowable Carryover Hours
none permitted

Applicable Course of Study
Acceptable continuing educational activities include:

Preparing and teaching a course offered by an approved New York State sponsor (provider) and in an acceptable subject area. Continuing education hours credited for this activity can include actual instructional time plus preparation time, which may be up to 2 additional hours for each hour taught. Teaching experience will not be accepted if you have taught the course more than one occasion without presenting substantially new or revised material.

Authoring an article in an approved subject area published in a peer reviewed journal or a published book. You will receive 9 continuing education hours for each work published during the registration period.

Making a technical presentation at a professional conference or meeting sponsored by an organization that in an approved sponsor (provider). Continuing education hours credited for this activity can include actual instructional time plus preparation time, which may be up to 2, additional hours for each hour taught. A specific presentation may only be counted once during any given registration period.

Obtaining a patent related to the practice of engineering. You will receive 9 continuing education hours for each patent granted on an invention during the registration period.

Completing self-study program. Self-study must be taken from an approved provider and in an acceptable subject area and be structured study that is based on audio, audio-visual, written, online, or other media, and does not meet the criteria established for live instruction described in question 15. In addition, a self-study program must have a testing instrument, which is completed by the licensee and returned to the sponsor for scoring. A passing grade is required before a sponsor may award continuing education credit.

Please Note:
The following entities are authorized to approve sponsors of continuing education for New York State professional engineers and land surveyors. If the courses and educational activities are offered by sponsors approved by one of these entities and the subject area of the courses and educational activities meet the requirements listed below, then the courses or educational activities would be considered approved New York State mandatory continuing education.

--International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
--The Practicing Institute of Engineering (P.IE).
--The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Continuing Education Program
--The Shaw Fund Continuing Education Approved Provider Program
--The NYS Education Department directly approves sponsors (providers)

The subject matter of the course or educational activity must be related to professional practice. Subject areas that are not so related, such as, general office management, marketing, accounting/financial planning, etc. are not acceptable. Acceptable subjects for land surveyors include:

Land surveying methods and techniques; or other matters of law and/or ethics which contribute to the practice of land surveying and the health safety, and/or welfare of the public; and in other topics which contribute to the professional practice of engineering as such practice is defined in section 7203 of the Education Law.

Proof of Compliance
Land surveyors shall maintain adequate documentation of completion of acceptable continuing education and shall provide such documentation at the request of the department.

Non-Compliance Penalties
Land Surveyors who do not satisfy the mandatory continuing education requirements shall not practice until they have met such requirements, and have been issued a registration certificate.

Disallowed Credits
N/A

Exceptions and Exemptions
The Education Department can grant adjustments to the continuing education requirement to licensees with serious health related issues, those on active military service, or for other good cause acceptable to the Department, that prevents the licensee from meeting the continuing education requirement. The Department will consider requests for adjustments to the continuing education requirement on a case-by-case basis.

A licensed land surveyor not engaged in practice as determined by the department, shall be exempt from the mandatory continuing education requirement upon the filing of a statement with the department declaring such status.

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