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PE & PLS Licenses

Every course filed before you leave the site.

Each engineer's and surveyor's licenses in every state on one board, the next renewal date ahead of time, and the hours each board asks for logged course by course with the certificate.

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Free tool: next due date

Enter the date and the next one appears here.

Your customer sets this interval; no rule fixes one.

The rules, with where each one came from.

Each date this app counts and each check it runs on a save is listed here with its source and the day we last read it. Where a rule lives in a paid standard, we cite it and keep the same facts in our own layout; we never copy the standard's text or forms.

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sourced rules in this trade, each read on or after Oct 29, 2026.

Dates it counts

  1. License renewal: the interval set in renewal period (months) from the last renewed on, or by the expires on if that comes first.Set per customer; no rule fixes this interval.
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What it checks when you save

  1. Ohio: each registered professional engineer and professional surveyor completes at least 30 hours of continuing professional development in the two years before the biennial renewal date.From Ohio Revised Code 4733.151, Continuing professional development, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  2. Ohio: at least 2 of the 30 hours cover professional ethics or the rules for engineering or surveying.From Ohio Revised Code 4733.151, Continuing professional development, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  3. Ohio: a person registered as both an engineer and a surveyor takes at least 10 of the 30 hours in engineering topics and at least 10 in surveying topics.From Ohio Revised Code 4733.151, Continuing professional development, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  4. Ohio: no hours are due during the first calendar year of registration.From Ohio Revised Code 4733.151, Continuing professional development, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  5. Ohio: hours over 30 in a renewal period carry into the next period, up to 15.From Ohio Revised Code 4733.151, Continuing professional development, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  6. Ohio: each continuing education unit counts as 10 hours, one college semester hour as 45 and one quarter hour as 30; an hour at a seminar with no units counts as one.From Ohio Revised Code 4733.151, Continuing professional development, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  7. Ohio: keep a log of each course or activity with its type, location, length, instructor and hours, plus certificates of completion, for four calendar years after the year you certify the hours.From Ohio Revised Code 4733.151, Continuing professional development, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  8. Oregon: every registrant (engineers, land surveyors, photogrammetrists and certified water rights examiners) earns 30 PDH in each two-year period to renew.From Oregon OSBEELS, Continuing Education Information, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  9. Oregon: a registrant licensed for six months or more of a registration period owes a prorated share of the hours.From Oregon OSBEELS, Continuing Education Information, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  10. Oregon: in each two-year period, active participation in a professional society counts for at most 8 PDH, and self-study for at most 6.From Oregon OSBEELS, Continuing Education Information, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  11. Oregon: keep proof of each PDH, such as certificates, receipts or attendance logs, for five years, and send it to the board when you are picked for an audit.From Oregon OSBEELS, Continuing Education Information, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  12. Oregon: up to 15 PDH carry forward into the next registration period.From Oregon OSBEELS, Continuing Education Information, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  13. Oregon: a person holding more than one registration, such as engineer and land surveyor, still owes 30 PDH in total per period.From Oregon OSBEELS, Continuing Education Information, checked Oct 29, 2026.
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Asked, and answered from the rule.

How many PDH does an Ohio PE need to renew?

  1. Ohio: each registered professional engineer and professional surveyor completes at least 30 hours of continuing professional development in the two years before the biennial renewal date.From Ohio Revised Code 4733.151, Continuing professional development, checked Oct 29, 2026.
  2. Ohio: at least 2 of the 30 hours cover professional ethics or the rules for engineering or surveying.From Ohio Revised Code 4733.151, Continuing professional development, checked Oct 29, 2026.

How many PDH does Oregon require each renewal?

  1. Oregon: every registrant (engineers, land surveyors, photogrammetrists and certified water rights examiners) earns 30 PDH in each two-year period to renew.From Oregon OSBEELS, Continuing Education Information, checked Oct 29, 2026.
  2. Oregon: a registrant licensed for six months or more of a registration period owes a prorated share of the hours.From Oregon OSBEELS, Continuing Education Information, checked Oct 29, 2026.

How long do engineers keep continuing education records in Ohio and Oregon?

  1. Ohio: keep a log of each course or activity with its type, location, length, instructor and hours, plus certificates of completion, for four calendar years after the year you certify the hours.From Ohio Revised Code 4733.151, Continuing professional development, checked Oct 29, 2026.
  2. Oregon: keep proof of each PDH, such as certificates, receipts or attendance logs, for five years, and send it to the board when you are picked for an audit.From Oregon OSBEELS, Continuing Education Information, checked Oct 29, 2026.

Can extra PDH carry into the next renewal period?

  1. Ohio: hours over 30 in a renewal period carry into the next period, up to 15.From Ohio Revised Code 4733.151, Continuing professional development, checked Oct 29, 2026.
  2. Oregon: up to 15 PDH carry forward into the next registration period.From Oregon OSBEELS, Continuing Education Information, checked Oct 29, 2026.

What it keeps for you.

Engineer or surveyor

Name, App user, Office, NCEES record number.

License

State, Licensing board, License, Discipline, License number, and more.

Course or activity

Course or activity, Kind, Completed on, Hours, Topic, and more.

What your client receives.

The license renewals, as the app issues it the moment the course is saved: signed, dated and frozen, with what is next due. This one is filled with invented records so you can read it before you sign up.

Building owners read every report filed to them in one binder, free.

Sample Inspection Co. (fictional) · PE & PLS Licenses

License renewals

Avery Lund

License

StateLicensing boardLicenseDisciplineLicense numberFirst licensed on
State 1Licensing board 1Professional EngineerDiscipline 1LI-4100Sep 11, 2026
State 6Licensing board 6Surveyor in TrainingDiscipline 6LI-4285Dec 20, 2025

Next due

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A recordkeeping aid. It does not certify compliance and is not legal advice.

Every name, date and number on this sample is invented.

What PE & PLS Licenses costs.

Free

$0
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  • 1 person

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  • 10 engineer or surveyors
  • 3 people

Crew

$24 a monthFounders price; list $49
  • 75 engineer or surveyors
  • 10 people

Company

$49 a monthFounders price; list $99
  • 500 engineer or surveyors
  • 25 people

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$74 a monthFounders price; list $149
  • 500 engineer or surveyors
  • 25 people
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