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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="14-311" title_number="14" title_name="Professional Engineers" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Licensing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to the provisions of this section, the Board may issue a license by reciprocity to practice engineering in this State to an individual who is currently licensed to practice engineering in another state or territory of the United States or in a foreign country.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Board may issue a license under this section only if the applicant:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is of good character and reputation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pays to the Board:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a nonrefundable application fee set by the Board; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a license fee set by the Board; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>provides adequate evidence that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>at the time the applicant was licensed by the other state, territory, or foreign country, the applicant met requirements that were equivalent to those then required by the laws of this State; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at the time of application for licensure by reciprocity under this section, the applicant meets the requirements currently required by the laws of this State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>An engineer who is licensed by the Board by reciprocity may not be required to maintain licensure in any other state, territory, or foreign country as a condition of maintaining the license granted by the Board.</text>
  </level>
</section>
