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Nevada State Specific Professional Land Surveyor Exam

Provider
Nevada State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
Format
Open-book multiple-choice examination, virtually proctored over webcam
Exam questions
55 total questions. Published category ranges: Standards of Practice & Licensing 15–20; Public Lands Survey System 15–20; Subdivision Law 10–15; Mining Law 5–10; Common Interest Communities 2–5; Water Rights & Water Law 2–5; Nevada State Boundary 2–5; Nevada State Coordinate System 2–5.
Time limit
2 hours
Passing score
Minimum 70%
Examination outline
  • Standards of Practice & Licensing
    • Safeguarding life, health and property, promoting public welfare, and licensure of qualified and competent professional engineers and land surveyors
    • Nevada Board statutes and administrative code
  • Public Lands Survey System
    • Subdivision of standard and fractional sections
    • Surveys against township and range lines
    • Meander corners and closing corners
    • Significance of the Manual of Surveying Instructions being retraced
    • Bureau of Land Management 2009 Manual of Surveying Instructions
    • Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended
  • Subdivision Law
    • Recorded map types and necessary map components
    • Creation, approval and recordation of maps for subdivision and ownership transfers
    • Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 278: Planning and Zoning
  • Mining Law
    • Location and retracement of mining claims
    • Mining-claim records and options for gathering survey data
    • Rights arising from local customs, mining-district rules, the Mining Acts of 1866 and 1872, and other sources
    • Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 517: Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights
    • Nevada Administrative Code Chapter 517: Mining Claims
    • Mining Claim Procedures for Nevada Prospectors and Miners, sixth edition
  • Common Interest Communities
    • Unit ownership, allocated interests and common elements
    • Governing documents and types of common-interest communities in survey and mapping work
    • Surveying and mapping condominium hotels
    • Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 116: Common-Interest Ownership
    • Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 116B: Condominium Hotel Act
  • Water Rights & Water Law
    • Eligibility and processes for water surveying
    • Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 533: Adjudication of Vested Water Rights
  • Nevada State Boundary
    • Overall Nevada state boundary
    • History and monumentation of the Nevada western boundary
    • The Colorful History of the California/Nevada State Boundary, parts 1 and 2
    • Opinion of the Court in the 1980 California v. Nevada Supreme Court case
  • Nevada State Coordinate System
    • Knowledge and understanding of the coordinate system used in Nevada
    • Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 327: Nevada Coordinate System; Geographic Names
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