Illinois Professional Land Surveying Law and Ethics
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Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Webinar instructions will be emailed before the date of the webinar.
Log into Webinar: 8:00 – 8:30 am CDT
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am CDT
Break: 11:45 am – 12:45 pm CDT
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:15 pm CDT
Illinois Land Surveyor Licensing Law:
Compliance and Enforcement Procedures
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation update
Investigations and contested cases
Disciplinary actions and penalties
Board enforcement case studies
Complying with National Society of Professional Surveyors’
Creed and Canons
Practicing in areas of competence
Preventing bias and the influence of personal self-interest
Preserving client confidences
Solicitation of business
Handling Ethical Issues in Land Surveying Practice
Regulation of firms providing professional surveying services
• Practice with non-licensed professionals
• Supervision and control of non-licensed professionals
Engaging in appropriate supervision and review
Signing, sealing and control of surveying documents
Prevention of unauthorized practice
Complying with Illinois procurement rules
Complying with Minimum Standards of Practice
Land title surveys
Boundary surveys
Condominium surveys
Subdivision surveys
Mortgage inspections
Topographic surveys
Parcel legal descriptions
Understnding the Illinois Plat Act, 765 ILCS 205
Applicability of the Act
Exceptions and exclusions
Requirements under the Act
Violations and damages
Webinar Instructions
All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.
Certificates of completion will be provided for each webinar attended and will be sent via email in PDF form about five business days after the conclusion of the series.
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Credits
Illinois Professional Land Surveyors
6.0 Total PDHs
4.0 PDHs Statutes and Rules
2.0 PDHs Professional Conduct
Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar is open to the public and offers 6.0 PDHs to Illinois professional land surveyors, including 4.0 PDHs in statutes and rules that regulate professional land surveyors and surveyors and 2.0 PDHs in professional conduct.
Land surveyors seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to claim the hours earned at this seminar, in some cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
Completion certificates will be awarded to participants who complete this event, respond to the online prompts, and earn a passing score (80%) on the quiz that follows the presentation (multiple attempts allowed).
Speakers
Russell W. Olsen, PLS
Senior Professional Land Surveyor with Engineering Design Source, Inc., in Chesterfield, MOMr. Olsen is a Senior Professional Land Surveyor with Engineering Design Source, Inc., a Civil Engineering and Surveying Firm based in Chesterfield, Missouri. Mr. Olsen has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional land surveyor, beginning in the Chicago metropolitan area. He is currently licensed as a land surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Texas.
He has been fortunate to have worked on numerous Highway Department/Department of Transportation horizontal and vertical control surveys, land acquisition and topographic surveys, County Transportation Department Plats of Highway, and Municipal Highway Department surveys.
Mr. Olsen is currently enrolled in the University of Maine Graduate School in the Surveying Engineering Technology Program. He earned an MS in Engineering Technology-Surveying Engineering in 2024 and is currently working on an Eng.D in the same subject at UMaine. He has a BA in Mathematical Sciences. Mr. Olsen has presented seminars and webinars previously with HalfMoon Education on topics including Law and Ethics of Illinois Land Surveying; Locating Land Boundaries on Paper (and on the Ground); Complying with Minimum Standards of Practice; Handling Ethical Issues in Land Surveying Practice; Complying with the Illinois Plat Act; Complying with National Society of Professional Surveyors Creed and Canons. His article “The Changing Mosaic of Professional Land Surveying Licensure Requirements in the United States and its Territories” is to be published in the May 2026 Journal of Surveying and Land Information Science (SaLIS) of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS).