Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE › Division 2030 - Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Professional Landscape Architects › Chapter 13 - Supervision › Section 20 CSR 2030-13.020 - Immediate Personal Supervision for Professional Land Surveyors

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule is being amended to provide more
				  clarity regarding the licensee's contact with the client and to specify
				  guidelines in circumstances where a licensee in responsible charge of the work
				  is unavailable to complete the work.
(1) Immediate personal supervision is a
				combination of activities by which a professional land surveyor maintains
				control over those decisions that are the basis for the findings, conclusions,
				analysis, rationale, details, and judgments that are embodied in the
				development and preparation of plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans,
				drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys, or other technical submissions.
				Immediate personal supervision requires providing personal direction,
				oversight, inspection, observation, and supervision of work being
				performed.
(2) Communications
				between the professional land surveyor and those persons who are performing the
				work include, but are not limited to, use of any of the following ways: direct
				face-to-face communications; written communications; U.S. mail; private express
				package delivery; electronic mail; facsimiles; telecommunications; or other
				current technology; provided that the professional land surveyor retains,
				maintains, and asserts continuing control and judgment.
(3) The professional land surveyor who signs
				and seals plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings, reports,
				descriptions, surveys, or other technical submissions in accordance with the
				provisions of section
				327.411,
				RSMo, must be knowledgeable of decisions made during preparation of the
				documents in sufficient detail as to be able to personally answer any questions
				regarding substantive decisions.
(4) Plats, maps, preliminary subdivision
				plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys, or other technical submissions
				will be deemed to have been prepared under the immediate personal supervision
				of a professional land surveyor when the following circumstances exist:
(A) The licensee, or an employee of the
				licensee's corporation, firm, partnership, association, or other entity
				authorized to do business, shall be in direct contact with the client
				requesting preparation of plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings,
				reports, descriptions, surveys, or other technical submissions;
(B) The professional land surveyor provides
				initial direction and supervises each step of the preparation of the plats,
				maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys,
				or other technical submissions and has input into their preparation prior to
				their completion;
(C) The
				professional land surveyor is not employed by the client, solely for the
				purpose of reviewing and approving plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans,
				drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys, or other technical submissions
				prepared by an unlicensed person, employee, or contractor of the client;
(D) The professional land surveyor
				reviews the final plats, maps, preliminary subdivision plans, drawings,
				reports, descriptions, surveys, or other technical submissions and is able to,
				and does make, necessary and appropriate changes to them; and
(E) In circumstances where a licensee in
				responsible charge of the work is unavailable to complete the work, a successor
				licensee may take responsible charge by performing all professional services to
				include the development and preparation of plats, maps, preliminary subdivision
				plans, drawings, reports, descriptions, surveys, or other technical
				submissions. The non-professional services, such as drafting, need not be
				redone by the successor licensee but must clearly and accurately reflect the
				successor licensee's work. The burden is on the successor licensee to show such
				compliance. The successor licensee shall have control of and responsibility for
				the work product and the signed and sealed originals of all technical
				submissions.