Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part LXI - Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors › Chapter 9 - Requirements for Certification and Licensure of Individuals and Temporary Permit to Practice Engineering or Land Surveying › Section LXI-903 - Professional Engineer Licensure

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A.
				The requirements for licensure as a professional engineer under the
				alternatives provided in the licensure law are as follows:
1. the applicant for licensure as a
				professional engineer shall be an engineer intern, or an individual who meets
				the qualifications to be an engineer intern, who has a verifiable record of
				four years or more of progressive experience obtained subsequent to meeting the
				educational and applicable experience qualifications to be an engineer intern
				on engineering projects of a level and scope satisfactory to the board, who is
				of good character and reputation, who has passed the examination(s) required by
				the board in the principles and practice of engineering in the discipline(s) of
				engineering in which the applicant seeks to be listed, who was recommended for
				licensure by five personal references (at least three of whom must be
				professional engineers who have personal knowledge of the applicant's
				engineering experience and character and ability), who has submitted an
				application for licensure in accordance with the requirements of
				R.S.
				37:694, and who was duly licensed as a
				professional engineer by the board; or
2. the applicant for licensure as a
				professional engineer shall be an individual who holds a valid license to
				engage in the practice of engineering issued to him/her by proper authority of
				a state, territory, or possession of the United States, or the District of
				Columbia, based on requirements that do not conflict with the provisions of the
				licensure law and which were of a standard not lower than that specified in the
				applicable licensure law in effect in Louisiana at the time such license was
				issued, who is of good character and reputation, who has submitted an
				application for licensure in accordance with the requirements of
				R.S.
				37:694, and if the state, territory, or
				possession, or the District of Columbia, in which he/she is licensed will
				accept the licenses issued by the board on a comity basis, and who was duly
				licensed as a professional engineer by the board; or
3. the applicant for licensure as a
				professional engineer shall be a graduate of an accredited engineering
				curriculum of four years or more approved by the board as being of satisfactory
				standing who has a verifiable record of 20 years or more of progressive
				experience obtained subsequent to meeting the educational qualification on
				engineering projects of a level and scope satisfactory to the board, who is of
				good character and reputation, who has passed the examination(s) required by
				the board in the principles and practice of engineering in the discipline(s) of
				engineering in which the applicant seeks to be listed, who was recommended for
				licensure by five personal references (at least three of whom must be
				professional engineers who have personal knowledge of the applicant's
				engineering experience and character and ability), who has submitted an
				application for licensure in accordance with the requirements of
				R.S.
				37:694, and who was duly licensed as a
				professional engineer by the board.