District law examination — Information & Free Practice
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District law examination
- Provider
- PSI
- Format
- Computer-administered written examination
Practice scope
The authority has not published an examination outline; the practice questions follow the scope of the existing question bank.
Authorized Practice and Scope
- Licensure status, classifications, and authority to practice
- Scope of land surveying and protected representations
Professional Competence and Public Communications
- Competence, responsible charge, delegation, and sealing responsibility
- Reports, testimony, public statements, criticism, and reporting misconduct
Conflicts and Business Conduct
- Conflicts, compensation, gratuities, and public service
- Solicitation, proposals, qualifications, and advertising
Seals and Document Authentication
- Required sealing, preliminary documents, reproducible originals, and multi-sheet work
- Computer-generated seals and digital signatures
License Maintenance and Continuing Education
- Expiration, renewal, inactive status, and reinstatement
- Continuing education, documentation, and audits
Office of the Surveyor Records and Private-Survey Authority
- Legal records, preservation, plat scale, and evidentiary status
- Registered surveyor authority, certification, and Office procedures
Subdivision and Boundary Procedures
- Subdivision plat preparation, certification, examination, and recordation
- Square measurement, apportionment, Georgetown rules, and party-wall boundaries
Condominium and Construction Surveys
- Condominium plats, plans, conversions, and unit-boundary changes
- Wall checks, field notes, submission, and agency review
District Survey Methods and Enforcement
- District property-line extension, square geometry, and building-line methods
- Compliance, complaints, hearings, notice, and discipline
Examination sources
- District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, 17 DCMR § 1511
17 DCMR § 1511.5(c), District law examination
- District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, 17 DCMR § 1500
17 DCMR § 1500.3, governing Act
- District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, 17 DCMR § 1500
17 DCMR § 1500.4, Chapter 33 supplement
- District of Columbia Board of Professional Engineering Code Book
July 2025 Edition, page 38, 17 DCMR § 3300.2
- D.C. Code, Title 1, Chapter 13: Surveyor
D.C. Code § 1-1329(c), licensed private surveyors
- D.C. Code, Title 42, Chapter 19: Condominiums
D.C. Code § 42-1902.14(a), certification of survey plats
- District of Columbia Board of Professional Engineering Code Book
July 2025 Edition, page 2, Chapter 15 contents
- District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, 17 DCMR § 1511
17 DCMR § 1511.1, written examinations
- District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, 17 DCMR § 1511
17 DCMR § 1511.17, scored results
- PSI Washington, DC Land Surveyor Examination bulletin
Bulletin page 2, TAKING THE EXAMINATION BY COMPUTER
- PSI Washington, DC Land Surveyor Examination bulletin
Bulletin page 2, TEST QUESTION SCREEN
- PSI Washington, DC Land Surveyor Examination bulletin
Bulletin page 2, SCORE REPORTING
- District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, 17 DCMR § 1511
17 DCMR § 1511.7, Board approval and sequence
- PSI Washington, DC Land Surveyor Examination bulletin
Bulletin page 1, INTERNET REGISTRATION
- PSI Washington, DC Land Surveyor Examination bulletin
Bulletin page 1, ELIGIBILITY