South Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors

Message To LLR Stakeholders About Regulatory Review Process

 

Fee Schedule

Attention LLR Customers LLR encourages the use of its online licensing services to issue licenses as quickly as possible to our clients. Starting May 15, 2011, a $25 service fee will be instituted for licensing services done in person rather than online.

Attention Check Writers We gladly accept your checks. When you provide a check as payment, you authorize us to use information from the check to make a one-time electronic fund transfer from your account, or to process the payment as a check transaction. You authorize us to collect a fee through electronic fund transfer from your account if your payment is returned unpaid.

Make checks payable to:
LLR-Engineering & Surveying Board
PO Box 11597
Columbia SC 29211-1597

I. APPLICATION FEES

A. Engineer-in-Training (EIT):

1) EAC/ABET Senior students/graduates      NO FEE
2) CEAB/Washington Accord graduates  NO FEE
3) TAC/ABET (Four-year) Senior students/graduates NO FEE
4) Non-EAC/ABET (other than those in item 2 above) graduates $200.00

B. Professional Engineer (PE): Category A Professional Engineer

1) Exam Registration – Category A   
$65.00 (EAC/ABET and CEAB/Washington Accord graduates)

2) Exam Registration – Category A (Non-EAC/ABET Engineering)        
$265.00 (includes $200 education evaluation fee)

3) Comity Registration – Category A   
$75.00 (EAC/ABET and CEAB/Washington Accord graduates)

4) Comity Registration – Category A (Non-EAC/ABET Engineering)  
$275.00 (includes $200 education evaluation fee)

Category B Associate Professional Engineer (restricted license)

1) Exam Registration – Category B (TAC/ABET)  
$65.00

2) Upgrade to Category A (includes $200 education evaluation fee)       
$215.00

C. Engineering Technology Graduates:

Application $75.00

D. Land Surveyor-in-Training (LSIT)

Exam Registration   NO FEE

E. Professional Surveyor

TIER A Professional Land Boundary Surveyor

1) Exam Registration (must have LSIT Certification)                 
$65.00

2) Comity Registration                              
$140.00  (includes education evaluation and state-specific exam fees; additional administrative fee
charged by NCEES)

TIER A Professional Land Boundary Surveyor-Geodetic Surveying
$65.00

Photogrammetric Surveyor                             
$65.00

Geographic Information System (GIS) Surveyor $65.00

TIER B Professional Land Surveyor
$65.00 (Long Form – must be registered as TIER A; does not include $75 exam fee)

F. Firm Registration
COA (Certificate of Authorization) Application  $115.00
II. EDUCATION EVALUATIONS: By SC Board education evaluator
Engineering Applicants  $200.00
Surveying Applicants  $40.00
By NCEES Credentials Evaluation Services  Contact NCEES

III. EXAMINATION FEES:
(Examination Fees are not included in the application fee; do not send examination fee until advised to do so.)
1) Fundamentals of Engineering - 8 hours, national   Set by NCEES
2) Principles and Practice of Engineering - 8 hours, national    Set by NCEES
3) Fundamentals of Land Surveying – 8 hours, national   Set by NCEES
4) Principles and Practice of Land Surveying – 6 hours, national   Set by NCEES
5) TIER B LS – 8 hours, local   $75.00
Click here for NCEES exam fees: http://www.ncees.org/Exams/States/SC.php

IV. GENERAL FEES:

1) Electronic List Order   $10.00 Licensee List Request Form
2) Verifications $5.00

V. TEMPORARY PERMITS:
1) Professional Engineers   $100.00
2) Firms   $150.00

VI. RENEWAL FEES: (Effective 7/1/02– Biennial renewal fee)

1) PE (CATEGORY A)  $100.00
2) PE (CATEGORY B)  $100.00
* 3) LS (TIER A Professional Land Boundary Surveyor)  $100.00
* 4) LS (TIER A Professional Land Boundary-Geodetic Provisions)  $100.00
* 5) LS (Professional Photogrammetric Surveyor)   $100.00
* 6) LS (Professional GIS Surveyor)  $100.00
* 7) LS (TIER B)  $100.00
8) Dual (PE/LS)    $200.00
9) Firms    $90.00

*Note: An individual licensed in multiple disciplines of land surveying will be required to pay only $100.00 for the biennial renewal fee.

All examinations are administered by NCEES. Examination and administrative fees are set by NCEES and are available online at http://www.ncees.org/Exams/States/SC.php

**Applicants must be approved by the South Carolina Board prior to registering for an examination.**

Revised July 2012

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