Section 435-RICR-00-00-1.4 - ApplicationsA. Licensing Applications & COA Applications. Application forms for licensing as a Professional Land Surveyor or Land Surveyor in Training and to obtain a COA may be obtained from the Board's office or the Department's website. All applications shall be completed in accordance with the instructions contained therein and submitted to the Board's office no later than four months prior to the scheduled date of the examination. The eligibility of each applicant to take the examination is prescribed by R.I. Gen. Laws § 5-8.1-9. 1. Personal appearance before the Board, if required, shall be at a time and place designated by the Board. The Board reserves the right to review and rescind eligibility to the land surveying registration examination.2. The Board may request additional evidence or information in writing to further support the application.3. Failure to comply, within sixty (60) days from the date of written request by the Board, for additional evidence or information, or to appear before the Board, when such an appearance is deemed necessary by the Board, may be considered as just and sufficient cause for disapproval of the application.B. COA Applications must be submitted to the Office of the Board. Allow a minimum of forty (40) days for properly completed applications to be reviewed and acted on by the Board.C. Application for "Land Surveyor Emeritus" status shall be made in writing to the Board. At the time that such application is made, the applicant must surrender the land surveyor's seal that had previously been issued by the Board. Allow a minimum of forty (40) days for the application to be reviewed and acted on by the Board.D. Applicants for examination reciprocity or COA must disclose any and all disciplinary action imposed by other professional registration jurisdictions.E. Approval of Applications 1. All applications shall be considered individually and passed or rejected on a roll call vote of the Board.2. The action taken on each application shall be recorded in the minutes.3. An outline of the action taken shall be placed with the application.4. Applicants shall be promptly notified of the Board's actions.F. Land Surveyor-in-Training Designation1. Eligibility. The Land Surveyor-in-Training ("LSIT") designation shall remain valid indefinitely. An applicant who has met the prescribed requirements, except that he or she holds a LSIT certificate issued by another state or political subdivision of the United States, shall be classified as a Land Surveyor Candidate and may be eligible for admission to the examinations entitled "Principles and Practice" and "Rhode Island Examination" if he or she has obtained the required Training and Experience. Credit for the "Fundamentals of Surveying", however, shall be granted only if the certificate already held by the applicant is valid and active, was issued upon successful completion of a written examination with grades satisfactory to the Board by a legally constituted board of examiners, the examination was adjudged by the Board to be the equivalent of that given in Rhode Island at the time, and reciprocal privileges are granted to residents of Rhode Island by the other state or political subdivision.435 R.I. Code R. 435-RICR-00-00-1.4