(1) Land surveying experience for the purpose of application for licensure shall be classified as progressive and non-progressive.

(2) Non-progressive experience is experience that must be gained under the supervision of a licensed professional land surveyor and may include:

(a) construction layout of buildings and miscellaneous structures;

(b) surveys necessary to obtain data and location of highways, roads, pipelines, canals, etc.;

(c) construction staking for land modification, highways, roads, utilities, etc.; or

(d) other construction surveying experience.

(3) Non-progressive experience shall be credited at one-half the time value of progressive experience and shall be limited to a total of no more than two years.

(4) Progressive experience is experience that must be gained under the supervision of a licensed professional land surveyor and may include one or more of the following:

(a) experience on land surveying projects, which indicate the experience is of increasing quality and requiring greater responsibility;

(b) experience not obtained in violation of the licensure act;

(c) experience such as aliquot part subdivision of sections, retracing existing boundaries, establishing new boundaries, corner search and reestablishment, researching existing public records, survey computations, preparation of legal descriptions, certificates of survey, subdivision plats, corner recordation forms, exhibits, and other documents pertinent to such work; or

(d) experience teaching surveying subjects at an advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level in an accredited college or university offering a land surveying curriculum supervised by a licensed land surveyor.

(5) All experience must be completed at the time of application.

(6) Land surveyor applicants may be asked by the board to provide a more detailed explanation of their experience in the field aspects of the profession.