2021 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
Title 37 - Professions and Occupations
§683. Board; appointments; terms

RS 683 - Board; appointments; terms

A.(1) The Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board is hereby created, whose duty it shall be to administer the provisions of this Chapter. The board shall consist of eleven members, nine of whom shall be professional engineers and two of whom shall be professional land surveyors.

(2) At least two members of the board shall be professional engineers who are engaged in the private practice of engineering. For the purposes of this Section, a professional engineer engaged in the private practice of engineering is a person who practices engineering as a principal business and who provides analytical, creative design, and design implementation capabilities to clients on a fee basis. At least two members of the board shall be professional engineers in government employment, at least two members of the board shall be professional engineers employed in the field of industry, at least two members of the board shall be professional engineers employed in the field of education, and at least one member of the board shall be a professional engineer employed in the field of construction. At least two members of the board shall be professional land surveyors who are actively engaged in the field of land surveying.

B.(1) The governor shall appoint members to the board from among professional engineer nominees recommended by the Louisiana Engineering Society or its duly recognized successor and from among professional land surveyor nominees recommended by the Louisiana Society of Professional Surveyors or its duly recognized successor. All such nominees shall have the qualifications required by R.S. 37:684.

(2) At least three nominations shall be made for each appointment required, and each appointment shall be made by the governor in the same manner as the predecessor appointees were selected.

(3) All appointments to the board shall be for terms of not less than five nor more than six years. All appointments shall be for such periods of time as to ensure that the terms of not more than two board members end per year, and shall expire on March thirty-first of the expiration year, regardless of the date on which the successor was appointed and qualified.

(4) In the event of the death or resignation of any member of the board, the appointment by the governor of his successor shall be only for the remainder of the unexpired term. No member who has served a full term shall be eligible for reappointment. Each appointment by the governor shall be submitted to the Senate for confirmation.

C. Each member of the board shall receive a certificate of appointment from the governor, and before beginning his term of office, shall file with the secretary of state his written oath or affirmation for faithful discharge of his official duty. Each member shall serve until his successor has been appointed and qualified. It shall be the duty of the president of the Louisiana Engineering Society, in the case of the professional engineer nominees, or the president of the Louisiana Society of Professional Surveyors, in the case of the professional land surveyor nominees, duly authorized and acting on behalf of their respective societies to make the nominations described above within sixty days after receipt of notice of the death, resignation, or removal of a member of the board, and at least thirty days prior to the expiration of the term of a member of the board.

D. This board shall be financially self-sufficient. It shall receive no state funds through appropriation or otherwise and shall not expend any such state funds. No state funds shall be expended or committed to expenditure for the group benefits program or any other health insurance or employee benefit program, for any retirement system, for any salary, per diem payment, travel or expenses, office supplies and materials, rent, purchase of any product or service, or for any other purpose.

Acts 1980, No. 568, §1; Acts 1987, No. 694, §1; Acts 1989, No. 149, §1; Acts 1991, No. 435, §1; Acts 1999, No. 396, §1; Acts 2006, No. 473, §1; Acts 2010, No. 468, §1, eff. June 22, 2010; Acts 2020, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 2, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2021.

{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1987, NO. 694, §2.}