Professional Engineer Renewal and Reactivation of Licensure

PURPOSE: This rule clarifies the requirements and conditions for renewing and reactivating a professional engineer’s certificate of licensure. (1) Licenses not renewed on or before the renewal date become non-current and subject to the provisions of section 327.261, RSMo. No person is entitled to practice as a professional engineer unless he/she holds a current and active license. (2) In order to renew a license, the licensee must: (A) Submit a completed renewal application form furnished by the board; (B) Pay the required fee; provided however, a licensee who is at least seventy-five (75) years of age at the time the renewal is due need not pay any fee; and (C) Submit a completed Professional Development Hour (PDH) form furnished by the board verifying that the licensee has completed at least thirty (30) PDHs during the preceding two (2) calendar years unless otherwise exempted. (3) Licensees, who so attest on their renewal Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, AND INSURANCE and Professional Landscape Architects that they are retired from active practice or are not engaged in the active practice of engineering, may place their license in an inactive status pursuant to section 327.271.1, RSMo. Those doing so cannot practice but can still retain the title of professional engineer and use the letters “PE” behind their name. Such professional engineer may, however, reenter practice only after he/she pays the required fee and in addition, completes thirty (30) Professional Development Hours within the two (2) years immediately prior to the date of reactivation. AUTHORITY: sections 327.041, 327.261, and 327.271.1, RSMo 2016.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 30-11.030. Original rule filed Dec. 9, 2002, effective June 30, 2003. Moved to 20 CSR 2030-11.030, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed June 14, 2007, effective Dec. 30, 2007. Non-substantive change filed Oct. 21, 2015, published Dec. 31, 2015. Amended: Filed March 20, 2018, effective Sept. 30, 2018. *Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2010, 2014; 327.261, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1989, 1999, 2014; and 327.271, RSMo 1999, 2014.