2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards
Chapter 391 - Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
Section 20-305 - Application and license fees.

Applications for licensure under this chapter shall be on forms prescribed and furnished by the Department of Consumer Protection. The nonrefundable application fee for a professional engineer license shall be eighty dollars. The nonrefundable application fee for an engineer-in-training license shall be seventy-six dollars, which shall accompany the application and which shall include the cost of the issuance of a license. The nonrefundable application fee for a land surveyor license shall be eighty dollars. The nonrefundable application fee for a surveyor-in-training license shall be sixty-four dollars, which shall accompany the application and which shall include the cost of the issuance of a license. The initial license fee for a professional engineer license or a land surveyor license shall be two hundred twenty dollars. The application fee for a combined license as professional engineer and land surveyor shall be eighty dollars. The initial license fee for such combined license shall be two hundred twenty dollars.

(1949 Rev., S. 4626; 1951, 1955, S. 2312d; 1959, P.A. 616, S. 73; February, 1965, P.A. 547, S. 2; June, 1971, P.A. 8, S. 88; 1972, P.A. 223, S. 19; P.A. 81-361, S. 13, 39; P.A. 82-317, S. 3, 8; 82-370, S. 7, 16; P.A. 83-360, S. 2; P.A. 89-251, S. 119, 203; P.A. 92-74, S. 4, 7; P.A. 98-3, S. 16; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 238.)

History: 1959 act doubled fee for professional engineer, increased fees for engineer-in-training and land surveyor $5 and for combination $20 and made all fees payable when application is made; 1965 act added transfer to lower class contingency in last sentence; 1971 act increased fees for professional engineer from $50 to $150, for engineer-in-training from $15 to $25, for land surveyor from $25 to $100 and for combined certificate from $50 to $150; 1972 act reduced fees for professional engineer to $50, for land surveyor to $25 and for combined certificate to $50, restoring fees obtaining before 1971 act for all categories except engineer-in-training; P.A. 81-361 provided that the registration fee for an engineer-in-training includes the cost of only the first examination taken and eliminated a provision allowing the application of that fee toward the fee for subsequent registration as a professional engineer and replaced board with department of consumer protection as authority dispensing applications; P.A. 82-317 amended section to increase application and registration fee for land surveyors from $25 to $50 and to eliminate partial refund upon transfer of application to a class requiring a lower fee; P.A. 82-370 replaced references to registration with references to licensure; P.A. 83-360 established application fee of $25 for surveyor-in-training license; P.A. 89-251 increased the fee for professional engineer from $50 to $150, increased the fee for engineers-in-training from $25 to $38, increased the fee for land surveyors from $50 to $150, increased the fee for surveyors-in-training from $25 to $32 and increased the combined licensed fee from $50 to $150; P.A. 92-74 rephrased section to delete references to first examinations of engineers-in-training and surveyors-in-training, to separate fees for professional engineers and surveyors and those desiring combined licenses into discrete fees for application and license and to specify that application fee is nonrefundable, deleting prior provision which stated that fee deposited with application, i.e. combined application and license fee, would be nonreturnable after formal action taken by board on the application; P.A. 98-3 made technical changes; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 increased fees.