Real Cases. Real Sanctions. Real Lessons.
Step inside the disciplinary record where real surveyors lost their standing

and learn the quiet decisions that put them there.

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40 Years Experience

We Don't Preach Ethics. We Open the Case File.

You're not reading a code of conduct. You're standing where a thirty-one year licensee stood when he drew the fence as the boundary and signed his name to it. You're watching four separate complaints land on a board's desk against the same surveyor. You're sitting in a kitchen at the end of a long day, looking at a fence and a row of mature trees installed twenty-four feet on the wrong side of the line. You hear what the board heard. You weigh what they weighed. You see how it ended.

The CE Ethics courses include:

  • 15-Minute Micro-Lessons
  • Bite-sized episodes fit any schedule. Pause when you arrive at the site, resume when you leave.
  • Professional Production
  • Voice-over narration, sound design, and scoring. No robotic voices or echoey webinar audio.

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COURSE OVERVIEW

Professional Ethics for Land Surveyors
ONLINE COURSE

A deep dive into the disciplinary record that defines our profession. Learn how to protect your license and your reputation by understanding exactly how other licensees lost theirs.

This course isn't built on hypotheticals; it's built on board orders, consent agreements, and findings of fact from real disciplinary actions. We walk through real cases, from a thirty-one year licensee who drew a fence as the boundary, to a surveyor whose pattern of arbitrary control caught up with him across four counties, to a five minute search that turned an original monument into a career-altering complaint, to a twenty-four foot error that cost an innocent client five figures and an innocent neighbor a year of disrupted property. You'll see the decisions. You'll see the findings. You'll see what the board did, and what it cost the licensee.

  • 1 Hour (4 x 15 min Audio Lessons)
  • Includes Assessment & Certificate

Single Course
$25
1 HR CE Credit
Professional Ethics Course 7
One Year Access
Certificate Included
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Refund Policy & Course Standards - Because your completion certificate is issued immediately upon course completion, all sales are final and refunds cannot be issued. Survey Life CE courses are developed in alignment with NCEES continuing education guidelines and are designed specifically for professional land surveyors. Each course is built from over 40 years of real-world field experience and presented through deep-immersion narrative instruction focused on real surveying situations, legal principles, and professional decision-making.

"You're not just getting your CE credits - you're investing in professional development that will actually make you a better surveyor." – Dan Provolt, PLS

"Judgment is the surveyor's real instrument"


These lessons draw not only from my own forty years in the field, but from the shared experiences, insights, missteps, breakthroughs, and hard-won wisdom of countless surveyors who came before us and who work beside us today.

As I assembled these narratives, I revisited my own past mistakes, near misses, small triumphs, and moments of clarity. But more importantly, I recognized how many of the challenges we face, boundary puzzles, legal conflicts, ethical dilemmas, and split-second field decisions, are universal across our profession.

You're not just buying CE credits. You're investing in professional development that will actually make you a better surveyor.

  • Licensed PLS (30 Years)
  • Survey Business Owner (23 Years)
  • Expert Witness
  • Boundary Solutions
  • Registered Course Developer

Frequently Asked Questions

NCEES-Compliant. Accepted in 30+ States.

Every Survey Life CE course meets NCEES (National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors) Continuing Professional Competency Guidelines — the standards most state boards follow for CE acceptance. That's not a marketing claim. It's a structural commitment built into how every course is produced.

What that means for you:

  • Built by a licensed PLS with 30+ years of licensure and 40 years of field experience
  • Audio delivery is explicitly approved under NCEES Model Rules Section 2.3.1(c)
  • Time-tracked lessons with dashboard records of your CE hours
  • Quiz-verified completion — you pass the assessment, you earn the credit
  • Automated certificates issued the moment you complete a course

Where these courses count:

Survey Life CE is accepted in the 30+ states listed below — states that don't require pre-approval but rely on the NCEES standards we already meet. If your state isn't listed, it likely has no CE requirement or uses its own state-specific pre-approval system. Check your state board's current requirements before purchasing — license rules change, and you're the one who has to renew.

ALABAMA 
https://bels.alabama.gov/faqs/

ALASKA     https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/professionallicensing/boardofarchitectsengineersandlandsurveyors.aspx           

ARKANSAS   

https://labor.arkansas.gov/licensing/state-board-of-licensure-for-professional-engineers-and-professional-surveyors/license-renewal/                                                    

COLORADO                                                                                                     

https://dpo.colorado.gov/AES/CE

IDAHO   

https://dopl.idaho.gov/ipels/ipels-cpd/

ILLINOIS

https://idfpr.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idfpr/forms/dpr/ls-renewal-pdh-requirements.pdf

IOWA

https://www.legis.iowa.gov/law/administrativeRules/rules?agency=193C&chapter=7&pubDate=02-04-2026

KANSAS

https://www.ksbtp.ks.gov/for-individuals/continuing-education/guidelines

LOUISIANA

https://www.lapels.com/docs/CPD/CPD_Audit_Transition_Examples.pdf

MAINE

https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/board-licensure-professional-land-surveyors

MICHIGAN

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/michigan/department-licensing-and-regulatory-affairs/bureau-of-professional-licensing/professional-surveyors/professional-surveyors/part-5

MINNESOTA

https://mn.gov/aelslagid/continuinged.html

MISSISSIPPI

https://www.pepls.ms.gov/continuing-education

MONTANA

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/montana/ARM-24-183-2105

NEBRASKA

https://nbels.nebraska.gov/profdev.html

NEVADA

https://nvbpels.org/continuing-education/

NEW MEXICO

https://www.sblpes.state.nm.us/license-renewal/

NORTH CAROLINA

https://www.ncbels.org/continuing-education/individuals/

NORTH DAKOTA

https://ndpelsboard.org/continuing-education/

OHIO

https://peps.ohio.gov/education-and-verification/continuing-education/provider-guidelines

OKLAHOMA

https://oklahoma.gov/pes/current-licensees-and-firms-/continuing-education-requirements.html

OREGON

https://www.oregon.gov/osbeels/maintaining/Pages/Continuing-Education-Information.aspx

PENNSYLVANIA

https://pcpg.org/ContinuingEdFAQs

SOUTH CAROLINA

https://llr.sc.gov/eng/PDF_Files/CPC.PDF

SOUTH DAKOTA

https://dlr.sd.gov/btp/forms_applications.aspx

TEXAS

https://pels.texas.gov/lscep.htm

UTAH

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/utah/Utah-Admin-Code-R156-22-304

VIRGINIA

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title18/agency10/chapter20/section683/

WASHINGTON

https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=196-16&full=true

WEST VIRGINIA

https://wvbps.wv.gov/law

WISCONSON

https://dsps.wi.gov/Pages/Professions/LandSurveyorProfessional/CE.aspx

WYOMING

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/037-4-Wyo-Code-R-SS-4-2

Absolutely! That's exactly what Survey Life CE is designed for. Plug in headphones or connect to your truck's audio system and listen while you drive to and from work. While eating lunch or waiting at the job site. Just be safe and attentive while operating vehicles.

After completing each 1-hour tracked course (four 15-minute lessons) along with a personal sign-off testifying the passing of the quiz with 75% or higher, you'll instantly receive a downloadable certificate of completion.

If you fail the quiz you'll be able to re-listen to the audio lessons and retake the quiz.

Your License Deserves More Than a Checkbox.

Turn your mandatory CE requirement into a powerful defense of your professional Judgement with the only audio-immersive courses built for the way surveyors actually work.

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