Illinois Professional Land Surveying Law and Ethics Seminar
Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:00 pm
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 Cannons
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
Understanding the Illinois Plat Act, 765 ILCS 205
Applicability of the Act
Exceptions and exclusions
Requirements under the Act
Violations and damages
Credits
This seminar offers Illinois land surveyors
6.0 PDHs, which provide 4.0 PDHs in
IL Statutes and Rules, and 2.0 PDHs in
Professional Conduct
Continuing Education Credit Information
This program is open to the public and offers 6.0 PDHs to Illinois land surveyors, including the required 4.0 PDHs in Illinois statutes and rules regulating professional land surveyors and surveys and the required 2.0 PDHs in professional conduct as prescribed in Section 1270.65 of the Illinois Administrative Rules.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
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).